4. And it's true, Stalin was a monstrous tyrant, with imperialist designs on Central Europe. Molotov-Ribbentrop pact was vile.
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@HeerJeet the majority of Soviet civilian casualties were not Russian -
@JCMorrison74 Fair point. I should have said Soviet.
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@HeerJeet Freedom is a multi-use word. It can mean no foreign rulers as well as right to own guns or speak freelyThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@HeerJeet American contribution to victory was misused - starting with Hiroshima and Nagasaki - when victory already assuredThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@HeerJeet Shouldn't be ignored, but should be put into proper context, i.e. Katyn Forest massacre of Poles.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@HeerJeet Russia may not steamroll w/o American food and trucks coming via Murmansk ship lifeline.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@HeerJeet And USSR wasn't going to cleanse Wehrmacht from North Africa, Italy. Req'd Western allied help.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@HeerJeet W/O Western Allies, and Nazis wasting manpower on death camps, Wehrmacht had millions more troops it could have sent East.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@HeerJeet No one is better on the moral complexity of the Soviet triumph over the Nazis than Vassily Grossman in Life & Fate.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@HeerJeet I've believed for a long time that WWII in Europe was won at Stalingrad at a huge price.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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