[fso301]

My Ukrainian friends would disagree.

Kharkov is in the Ukraine.

[Jimmy Valentine]

It is indeed. My point was that there is no way to make Stalin look good against anyone except perhaps Satan.

Over 20 million Russians and Ukrainians perished in the war, a good many of them due to Stalin's blunders. As an example in spite of warnings from England about attacks and German strategies as revealed by Enigma decrypts he routinely ignored them.