Say something nice about Hitler (25 Viewers)
- Thread starter Kaiser Franco
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The thing about Hitler that I admire most is how he persuaded Stalin to sign a non-mutual-attack pact in 1939.
So when Barbarossa was kicked off on June 22, 1941, and the Soviet Union was totally unprepared (in spite of countless intelligence reports), Stalin would lock himself in his room in Kremlin, and wouldn't come out for 10 days (or so).
The man who destroyed his entire potential opposition in Moscow and millions of innocent Soviets, trusted... Adolf Hitler!
So when Barbarossa was kicked off on June 22, 1941, and the Soviet Union was totally unprepared (in spite of countless intelligence reports), Stalin would lock himself in his room in Kremlin, and wouldn't come out for 10 days (or so).
The man who destroyed his entire potential opposition in Moscow and millions of innocent Soviets, trusted... Adolf Hitler!
While that pact is the #1 sore point for many a Pole, Lithuanian, Latvian, and Estonian, it's certainly not unprecedented. Ramses II probably pulled off the best non-mutual-attack political coup with the Assyrians just before the Egyptian empire was about to crumble in the 13th century BC.
Of course, if Stalin and Hilter started swapping daughters to marry, then they'd really have accomplished something worthy of Ramses II.
Of course, if Stalin and Hilter started swapping daughters to marry, then they'd really have accomplished something worthy of Ramses II.
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But by then Hitler had already become a master in the field of treachery, and France and England's behaviour kind of threw Stalin into the Fuehrer's arms. It's amazing indeed that the Soviets didn't see it coming (a few hours before the launching of the invasion, Stalin was patting the German ambassador on the back, saying that Russia and Germany should be friends forever).
I think what's even more insanely impressive though is how he managed to emasculate the political and military élite of the Republic of Weimar. No one gave this hysterical WW1 caporal any credit, yet he gobbled them up one by one and in a perfectly legitimate way.
I think what's even more insanely impressive though is how he managed to emasculate the political and military élite of the Republic of Weimar. No one gave this hysterical WW1 caporal any credit, yet he gobbled them up one by one and in a perfectly legitimate way.
