Stalin is named 'the most outstanding person' in history pushing Putin into second place...

UK Daily Mail ^ | 26 Jun 2017 | By Gareth Davies

[Jane Long]

Are you having fun? ;-)

[DiogenesLamp]

You rotten liar. What makes you think you can get away with saying something like that? Have you gotten Maxine Water Brain all of a sudden? You just attacked me for absolutely no reason. Why would you do so, you evil, vile demon.

I think you have replied to me by mistake. I did not attack you. I'll read through the messages to see what happened, but I did not attack you in any sort of way.

[Future Snake Eater]

“Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.” - Joseph Stalin

So, like any weapon then.

[DiogenesLamp]

The only single thing that saved Russia in history is the vastness of the country. And that is why Hitler screwed it up. He was to dam stupid to understand why.

My understanding is that Hitler had to break away an armored division of the invasion force to go to Greece to help out his "ally" the Italians who were getting their @$$es handed to them by the Greeks.

Had that division gone where it was intended, the Germans would have won the battle of Stalingrad and then taken Russia.

So in other words, the Germans lost because their Italian allies wrecked their invasion plan.

[DiogenesLamp]

You should ask for your money back for that course. Stalin was the reason hitler got as far as he did. Stalin was warned by his generals that the invasion was coming and did nothing. Winter stopped hitler not stalin

The Italians stopped Hitler. See my comment above.

[x]

A few may not realize Stalin was a Communist.

After Khrushchev's "secret speech" Stalin posthumously fell into disfavor with the CPSU.

In the Brezhnev era it was all about Lenin.

Today, along with all the nostalgic hard-core Communists, there may be some Russians for whom Stalin is just the guy who won the war, not the man who imprisoned and killed and starved millions.

[crz]

Yes the diversion is true, but that did NOT cost them the war in Russia. They never could win that war, and Stalingrad was of no importance other than the name after they destroyed the place.
Hell they had Leningrad covered also, as well as threatening Moscow.

These places where just that, cities in the middle eastern part of a country so vast and in no way could the stupid Nazis win it. And Hitlers generals knew that. The only way he could have done any serious harm is if they took the oil rich areas of southern Russia. Instead, the mental midget, a legend in his own mind Hitler, decided that a few cities were more important.

The idiot never knew how to fight a war. One important rule is that one does NOT win wars by gaining vast amounts of territory. One wins wars by totally and utterly destroying his enemies.

He never destroyed the BEF, all the French, all the Poles, the Russians etc, and then scoffed at the USA when we entered the war. So, who totally and utterly destroyed their enemies?