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Irish_Dem

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9. I seriously debated including Stalin in my list, but he is such a bastard.
Sun May 31, 2026, 12:52 PM
6 hrs ago

I couldn't do it.

The SOB killed 2 million people in the Battle of Stalingrad, civilians and military.
It is the largest and most deadly engagement in world history.

It is debatable whether the battle had any significant tactical strategy.
Or was it just a dick waving contest between Stalin and Hitler because the city
carried Stalin's name, so a vanity project.

Stalin also engineered mass starvation which killed millions of Ukrainians in the Holodomor.
The list of Stalin's crimes go on and on.

Churchill hated Stalin's guts and would not even speak to him.
He never trusted him further than he could throw him.
He let FDR handle Stalin.

So I just could not add Stalin's name to the list with Churchill.

But yes thanks to the Russians we are not speaking German right now.

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