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Anonymous
#341368
11 months ago
Joseph Stallion?
Obscure
#341375
11 months ago
He was a paranoid psychopath. But boy, did he know how to run a war.
Anonymous
#341391
11 months ago
I wonder what a ponified name for Georgia would be.
Lola_Del_Rio
#341483
11 months ago
My Little Commie
Calbeck
#341601
11 months ago
1stAnon: *Brosef* Stallion.
Trombe
#341770
11 months ago
@Obscure: He didn't know how to run a war. Thing is, he did realize that he didn't know how to do that (before it was too late) and let his generals do the thing. And then claimed the success for himself, by the virtue of officially being a supreme commander.
YenaMuffin
#341810
11 months ago
@Trombe
..... and he was a terror to his generals as well. I recall a story of a soviet official or general who had his original teeth pulled during a torture session that occured when Stalin got paranoid and suspected the guy of wanting to kill him.
Shawa666
#341998
11 months ago
What Trombe said.
Anonymous
#342766
11 months ago
is there a ponified lenin?
Anonymous
#343350
11 months ago
Why can't I see this picture?
pervotron2000
#344587
11 months ago
^You can't either?
Anonymous
#351561
11 months ago
@Trombe: Well, he was still better at running a war then Hitler in two respects:
1. Unlike Hitler, he rapidly realized that he had little talent running military operations and began delegating such matters too his general. Hitler was a gifted amateur tactician with a penchant for huge gambles and an initial streak of luck... the last of which made him (Hitler) think he was a total military genius.

2.
Anonymous
#351577
11 months ago
(Accidentally hit the post button before I could hit the post button)
2. Again unlike Hitler, he knew how too run an administrative system, which is one of the reasons why the Soviet Union was able too outproduce the Germans despite losing ONE-THIRD of its industrial capacity. Without that administrative system, the Soviets would have been unable too evacuate 1500 war-critical factories out of danger, recruit the necessary workers for those factories, establish new supplies of raw materials to replace those lost in the German invasion (which in some area's was up too 50% of the countries pre-war sources), and ensure the transportation network that supported all of the above didn't snarl-up.

Hitler, on the other hand, was actually a rather bad administrator and actually acted at several points like he could overcome certain problems in manpower and material by just issuing an order, instead of taking a hand-on approach to figure out what the problem was and how to alleviate it.

So yeah, Stalin was just as bad a war leader when it came too running a military operation as Hitler. When it comes too running a NATION at war, Stalin actually has a better track-record.