[free_european]

"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.

[Grzegorz 246]

Exactly. Many of Soviet POW's were executed or sent to gulags after they had been "liberated".

[Sam the Sham]

And because of Stalin's terror the Soviet R&D cycle lost 5 years. When Barbarossa hit, most Soviet equipment was stuff that had been first rate in 1934-1937.

There is a lot of schadenfreude in the Russian national character. A delight in seeing the high brought low. They want a Stalin to shoot the oligarchs who got rich while they suffered during the Yeltsin era.

[Tulsa Ramjet]

come on! the krauts ran out of gas at the front door and it was friggin' freezing and no supplies! Please.!