So listening to this book-on-CD, The Greatest Battle, while driving to and from work, is starting to
get really depressing. Mainly because of
learning how big a psycho Stalin was.
Well, I always knew he was a bonafide psycho, but how great a psycho he
was is truly astounding. Hitler gets
most of the votes in the unofficial Psychopathic Insanely Evil Dictator and
Demon Masquerading as a Human award, and rightly so, but if the public knew
half of what the Russian despot really did, the small, wiry cretin would give
the Austrian monster a run for his money.
Operation Barbarossa, the 1941 invasion of Soviet Russia by Nazi
Germany, was truly a case of “why can’t they both lose.”
For instance, I learned that Stalin had 158,000 of his own men
killed during that six-month campaign.
For crimes such as being captured or retreating. 158,000.
Think about that. To put it in
perspective, that’s slightly less than the combined amount of men killed in
action by both the Union and Confederate armies in the entire four years of the
American Civil War. Compare this to what
his brother-butcher did: Hitler had 22,000 of his own men killed on all fronts
during the entire duration of World War II.
So I got to thinking that, perhaps, if there truly was justice
in this world, the Higher Power would simply take Adolf and Josef, strip them
down to their boxers, and toss the two animals together in a cage match to the
death. Who would win? Hitler has the age advantage, ten years
younger than his Russian counterpart.
Stalin, however, (I believe, though I am disgusted to pursue this
further) has personally killed more men up close with his own hands.
Again, truly a case of “why can’t they both lose.”
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