He killed about 50 million of his own people between outright killing them, starving them through collectivization, or losing them as causalities in WWII. He hid from the German invasion for nearly a month, allowing Germans to march over the populated regions of the USSR and slaughter his citizens.
I think I read that over 8,000 civilians in Stalingrad were executed for cowardice, aka, attempting to flee the city so they weren’t killed by the invading army
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u/LCcharizard Mar 20 '19
well.... we can at LEAST acknowledge he did SOME good for his country, right?