I don’t think the USSR could have surrendered tbh.
They could have - not on the same terms as Western Europe, but they could have. There were lots of willing collaborators, especially in the Baltics and Ukraine and many others who surrendered without knowing the plan of genocide. I can totally imagine the Russian monarchy surrendering (if it had survived to that point) - the aristocracy would have been spared, especially given their German blood and German language proficiency. The willingness to stand and fight was aided by Communist ideology, which was, for instance, anti-racist. A country led by an Antisemitic elite would have resisted less.
I guess it depends on who you count as them then. Yes, I think the tsar could have and might have surrendered, but I also don't know if Generalplan Ost would have taken shape in the same form if we Slavs hadn't proven our degeneracy by falling to "Judo-Bolshevism" so easily. Too many different variables for me (or I'm not knowledgeable enough) to have an opinion.
They could have - not on the same terms as Western Europe, but they could have. There were lots of willing collaborators, especially in the Baltics and Ukraine and many others who surrendered without knowing the plan of genocide. I can totally imagine the Russian monarchy surrendering (if it had survived to that point) - the aristocracy would have been spared, especially given their German blood and German language proficiency. The willingness to stand and fight was aided by Communist ideology, which was, for instance, anti-racist. A country led by an Antisemitic elite would have resisted less.
I guess it depends on who you count as them then. Yes, I think the tsar could have and might have surrendered, but I also don't know if Generalplan Ost would have taken shape in the same form if we Slavs hadn't proven our degeneracy by falling to "Judo-Bolshevism" so easily. Too many different variables for me (or I'm not knowledgeable enough) to have an opinion.