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To: Chad C. Mulligan
So what? Hitler was Austrian. Napoleon was Corsican.

You're missing the key difference. Hitler was still Germanic. Napolean was still Roman. Stalin was Caucasian, not Slavic. Russians and Ukrainians are Slavic, Stalin was not.

30 posted on 11/29/2023 1:44:51 AM PST by Right_Wing_Madman
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To: Right_Wing_Madman
Stalin was Caucasian, not Slavic.

I guess you're going to have to elaborate. As I read it, Stalin was genetically Georgian, but he hated everything about his roots in Georgia, and sought to be more Slavic than the real Slavs.

From Edvard Radzinsky's 1996 biography, part of which I luckily found online:

"The part of the town in which Beso's house stood was known as the Russian quarter, because Russian soldiers were stationed in a barracks nearby. So other children often called Soso "the Russian." This would lodge in his subconscious, with strange results. He would never feel the stirring of Georgian nationalist sentiment. Only his first revolutionary pseudonym--almost a childish nickname--had any connection with Georgia. As a professional revolutionary, he used only Russian names when living underground. He would later describe his homeland sarcastically as "that small area of Russia which calls itself Georgia."

https://www.amazon.com/Stalin-depth-Biography-Explosive-Documents/dp/0385479549

33 posted on 11/29/2023 7:28:20 AM PST by Chad C. Mulligan
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