According to Tariq Ali's 2017 book about Lenin, Wehrmacht officers literally collaborated with Stalin loyalists to bring him down? Forging fake treasonous documents, etc. You'd think that would seem like a red flag (the other kind) but Stalinism was a hell of a drug I guess
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The BBC documentary series "Hitler's Bodyguard" said that Tukhachevsky's "confession" was stained with his own blood.
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And not just him. Stalin killed many brilliant military leaders, scientists and other intellectuals and, in the process, significantly prolonged the war.
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I'd like to know how the USSR would have fared without brutal industrialization building weapons-making industrial capacity in the decade-plus before the war. It feels like a complicating factor in Stain's overall world-criminal disaster of a career.
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I mean really? He was crushed by the poles at Warsaw....
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