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His country had just been invaded by Nazis. Not to imply that Stalin was any better, but if Hitler invaded your country, killed a bunch of people and devastated
by Zak 13y ago
His country had just been invaded by Nazis. Not to imply that Stalin was any better, but if Hitler invaded your country, killed a bunch of people and devastated the land, you might feel the urge to design weapons.
- stcredzero 13y agoIt was a no-holds barred war for survival from the POV of both sides; both sides being totalitarian states with fanatics in their ranks. A lot of the bad mojo of the 20th century is basically the fallout of that unimaginably violent and brutal war -- that is the "eastern" front between Germany and the USSR. Hitler's army was there to flat-out exterminate the populace to make room to support a growing population. Battles where a huge chunk of a million men died in just a few days happened again and again and again. Of all the dying that happened in WWII, the Russians did a huge chunk of it.