[steelhead_trout]

Cliff Notes version of Comrade Stalin’s address:

1. Germany, Japan and Italy were stinkers.

2. The USA and UK are our freedom-loving allies (for the time being).

3. We kicked butt.

4. The Soviet Army rocks, and did a helluva job.

5. We’re economically powerful now, and communism works just fine.

6. Thanks for letting me (J. Stalin) be your boss. You’re my bros.

[Incorrigible]

Thanks for that!

[Verginius Rufus]

Stalin forgot to mention the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact.

In 1914 the Germans got bogged down in a two-front war. In 1939-1940 the Germans did not have to worry about the East (once they had crushed Poland) and were able to subjugate France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Denmark, and Norway...while getting raw materials from the USSR.