Word: stalins
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...with an ounce of political sense should buy the idea that we were caught flat-footed by a treacherous surprise assault. Yet to this day some of Stalin's lackeys are trying to whitewash his failure to prepare us adequately by saying Hitler fooled us by breaking the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact...
...remember coming to see Stalin at the beginning of the war at the High Command Headquarters on Myasnitskaya Street. He was by then a sack of bones in a gray tunic. He asked me, "How's it going...
...Stalin answered slowly, in a low voice. "Well, everyone talks about how smart Russians are. Look how smart we are now." On another occasion, early in the war, he said, "Lenin left us a state and we turned it to shit...
...illustration of how desperate he was, Stalin tried to make a very secret approach to Hitler during the war. I think it was in 1942. Stalin wanted to reach an agreement that would let the Germans keep the territory they occupied in the Ukraine, Belorussia and even certain areas of the Russian Federation. One of our people was sent to Bulgaria and instructed to inform a German contact there that the Soviet Union was willing to make some territorial concessions. There was never any answer from Hitler. Apparently, he felt the Soviet Union's days were numbered. Why enter into...
...course, Stalin would say that he was just stalling for time so that he could build up our forces and eventually win back what he had given away. But to gain time at the cost of such concessions...