To: Grzegorz 246
Millions of Russiand died in WWII. The memory is still fresh.
Stalin saved Russia and prosecuted the war on the Eastern Front. Saving Russia from Hitler is worth remembering and may very well outweigh his terrible tyrannical reign of fury.
Hei should not be remembered solely as an ogre.
10 posted on
03/04/2005 1:25:15 PM PST by
bert
(Peace is only halftime !)
To: bert
"Saving Russia from Hitler"
His purges of the Red Army's officer class were one of the reasons why Russia came so close to being defeated in 1941.
Stalin deserves no credit for the victory - the Soviet Army, its officers (some of whom were released from the gulags and sent to the front) and the russian people were the victors.
To: bert
Most of those people died because of Stalin's stupidity. Fortunately Hitler wasn't more intelligent.
To: bert
Stalin saved Russia and prosecuted the war on the Eastern Front.
Because of his stupidity Hitler had such good occasion to attack SU. We should remember that Stalin killed so many Soviet officers that there was lack of them when Hitler came. That is one of the reasons why they had so big losses.
16 posted on
03/04/2005 1:33:39 PM PST by
Lukasz
(Terra Polonia Semper Fidelis!)
To: bert
Stalin saved Russia and prosecuted the war on the Eastern Front. Saving Russia from Hitler is worth remembering and may very well outweigh his terrible tyrannical reign of fury. Russia was "saved" in spite of Stalin, not because of him.
How many Russian soldiers were killed not by Germans firing at them from in front but by NKVD firing at them from behind?
To: bert
Hei should not be remembered solely as an ogre You'll be hearing from the Ogre Anti-Defamation League.
27 posted on
03/04/2005 1:49:18 PM PST by
Argus
(Mi tagline es su tagline)
To: bert
Stalin saved Russia and prosecuted the war on the Eastern Front. Saving Russia from Hitler is worth remembering and may very well outweigh his terrible tyrannical reign of fury. Russia saved herself in spite of Stalin. Sheer numbers were the Soviets saving grace. Also had it not been for American assistance the Soviets would have been routed.
52 posted on
03/04/2005 3:04:22 PM PST by
dfwgator
(It's sad that the news media treats Michael Jackson better than our military.)
To: bert
Saving Russia from Hitler is worth remembering and may very well outweigh his terrible tyrannical reign of fury. Sir, you must be an historical idiot to make that claim.
57 posted on
03/04/2005 4:04:33 PM PST by
Future Snake Eater
(The plan was simple, like my brother-in-law Phil. But unlike Phil, this plan just might work.)
To: bert
Stalin saved Russia and prosecuted the war on the Eastern Front. Saving Russia from Hitler is worth remembering and may very well outweigh his terrible tyrannical reign of fury.
Of course, if he hadn't nearly destroyed the military with his purges, and crawled into bed with Hitler, then ignored all the intelligence of the impending attack the Soviet Union might have escaped with far fewer casualties.
NOTHING he did can outway the millions of innocent lives lost to that monster. NOTHING.
75 posted on
03/05/2005 2:17:46 AM PST by
Kozak
(Anti Shahada: " There is no God named Allah, and Muhammed is his False Prophet")
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