PONDER: Quite insightful actually to reflect on the inspirational LEADERSHIP focus for Vladimir Putin vs Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
The role mode for Putin is Joseph Stalin. Born Josef Vissarionovich Djugashvili, Stalin ruled over USSR for over 20 years. His reign resulted in death and terror, e.g. millions died from famine with others sent to labor camps.
Due to his paranoia, Stalin had people arrested in the night and put before spectacular show trials with his ‘Great purge.’ Stalin summarily convicted and executed potential rivals as being “enemies of the people”
Potential rivals were accused of aligning with capitalist nations, convicted of being “enemies of the people” and . a reign of high esteem observing and appreciating the abilities of our role models high esteem:
On the other hand, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has repeatedly shared his admiration and deeply appreciates the competency, talent, and skill of Winston Churchill. He is totally inspired by Churchill’s leadership qualities.
Churchill took ownership and not quit when things get tough.
“ …we shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.”
Winston Churchill, 4 June, 1940
“Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.” Winston Churchill, November 10, 1942
“The POSITIVE THINKER sees the INVISIBLE, feels the INTANGIBLE, and achieves the IMPOSSIBLE.”
Winston Churchill
H/T AdmSmith
https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4042550/posts?page=4157#4157
Today, be sure to remind everyone you know that Stalin was allied with Hitler, started WW2 together, got betrayed, had his ass handed to him by Hitler, and was rescued by the United States with hundreds of billions in military equipment and even basics like food for millions
https://twitter.com/igorsushko/status/1655811096484216832
The original annual military parade on the Red Square was held on May 1st - the International Worker’s Day. In 1941, Stalin had special guests of honor at the Kremlin for the occasion - Hitler’s Nazis - the Soviet Union’s allies.
Background on the secret Molotov-Ribbentrop alliance between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany, signed in 1939. Hitler invaded the Soviet Union just 1.5 months after his representatives attended Stalin’s May 1st military parade on the Red Square.
https://twitter.com/igorsushko/status/1653229791297032193