To me personally Stalin's dictatorial regime had much to do with pushing the USSR into the cold war, especially with his lack of cooperation with the allied powers during and after World War 2 and his relentless push into more areas of the west via armed intursion. By the time he was gone the mechanism for the cold war was in place, at that point the regime could not peruse a course of peace when armed build up meant that America was engaged in the cold war.

This film disgusted me when I saw it the first time. I just could not believe the cult of personality he had instituted via his systematic purges of the intelligentsia, his own armed forces and the civilian population. When Hitler's army amassed on the Eastern front Stalin discarded intelligence reports as lies and conspiracy basically letting hundreds of thousands of people suffer at the blitzkrieg of the German Werchmacht. Generals were switched around at random, troops were flung en masse to defend vast areas with little to no armament, tanks or air support because most of it was destroyed in the initial rush by the german forces, since Stalin gave no general warning to forward areas, even went reports of forces attacking across the border increased in volume. Failure was blamed on generals, any successes were due to the brilliance of Stalin. Only because of the will of the Russian people to defend their land at all costs, did the soviet army finally start pushing the German forces back. The abuses of the German army however, on the Slavic people as a whole due to their view of them being 'sub-human' meant that rear guard soviet detachments made usually of vast conscripts carried out their own form of revenge against the civilians of Germany and even their own people at times, especially the women. Stalin's cruelty extended even to his own family, he drove his son to suicide, when he survived his attempt Stalin remarked that he couldn't even do that properly.

In Moscow there stands a great marble monument engraved with the names of people who have been instrumental in Russia's history when I visited it in the early 90's one name was scratched off the monument and left as such.

It was Stalin's name.

мой бог это красивейш! Страстью на сторонах людей, Stalin должна быть довольно чаровник!

Man, he got the best plastic surgery when he passed, no funerary tech has come close.....wanna be freeze-dried personally, stirred in a trail mix...sump'n like that....

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