re: #347 jamesfirecat

Striking a deal with the guy whose entire ideology was based around looking down on your country/people of your race was not the smartest move either…

The most insane thing about Stalin’s USSR is that they actually imprisoned people who escaped the German POW camps. There’s a crazy conspiracy theory that some of the old Bolsheviks (read the people that Stalin largely purged in the great purges and were more part of Lenin’s generation) that Stalin was actually a spy for the czarist police. I don’t believe that but that would be an interesting twist. It’s interesting though that he did so many dumb things like the treaty with the Nazis considering he was and this is no defense of Stalin but he was from what I understand an intelligent guy.