Quote Originally Posted by spmetla
There wouldn't have been a Winter War with Finland at least and the occupation of Estonia, Lativia, and Lithuania might not have happened or at least delayed.
Do not agree with this.
Stalin was pretty paranoid about the events unfolding, and his paranoia this time seems to have been justified. As Germany expanded, he felt that he must create a bufferzone wheer war could be waged. Well, Poland was just that if it was still alive, but the Baltic States and Finland couldn't be considered that (though with hindsight it might have been better to leave Finland alone, and then perhaps not).
And given Rumania's sidelong glances at the SU that too had to be considered.

So I truly believe these events would have unfolded, perhaps not as they did, but in they would in my mind.