[Angelino97]

Stalin was strongly advised to retreat eastward. Get out of Moscow. Stalin refused. He remained in the Kremlin, and so served as a role model - for general and private alike.

Really? I heard the opposite.

I remember seeing a film that showed Stalin fleeing eastward on his train. I think it was The Inner Circle (1991), but it might have been Stalin (1992).

[Leaning Right]

> I heard the opposite. <

It’s hard to believe anything coming out of the old Soviet Union. But I was always interested in the history of Germany’s WW II eastern front. It was a place of almost unimaginable tragedy.

Everything I’ve read says that Stalin stayed put in Moscow. But who really knows?