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Trotsky was gonna marry a PAINTER for god's sake!
Don't tell me the Soviets had brilliant tacticians.. the Germans used large divisions of tanks NOT mixed with infantry. The Russians did not counter this threat with the same, but used infantry mixed with tanks, thereby increasing their losses and increasing their chances of being ENCIRCLED!!!
Stalin was very very paranoid and killed many many millions of people. Sure he started an industrialization, one that was going to happen anyways. (The monarchs WERE interested in industrialization, and WERE trying to westernize, just had a lot of family problems
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He killed many millions of people. He allowed many millions of his own people to die just to put the German army where he could be most effective. He was just like Hitler, and did not allow his soldiers to retreat. Only after he knew he would turn back the tide did he formally issue his position on the war, "Not one step back!" HAH!
He put almost all his aircraft at the border in Poland so that they were within range of the German bombers and utterly destroyed in the 'surprise' attack. This meant that he was forced to pull back.
Stalin was an utter fool and the following five year plans focused on military production of tanks, rather than production of goods.
He forced people to STARVE while they built TANKS for him! He started the cold war.
Stalin
TRUSTED Hitler! He hated the Jews, and besides being brutal dicators who did nothing but drive their countries into ruin, that was the only thing they had in common.
Trotsky would have made a much better leader for the Soviet Union, but I don't think he would have left Mexico even if he wasn't assasinated.
Trotsky --> [dance]
Stalin -->
PS: 'France: No' meant that France would not just attack the Soviet Union just because it would be trying to instill the Communist party inside it. They are getting taken over by Muslim extremists ATM, and what do they do? Nothing.