I played a game monday evning, when i used this tactic very succesfull, granted that it wasn´t elite players i played against, but on the other hand i had a totaly incompetent player on my team incharge of Japan…
In short, Germany took Moscow, in turn 5 or 6, with no allied presence in europe (aside from Norway)
And it allso binds up Allied Fig on carriers instead of being in Russia.