re: History buffs: Interesting fact about Stalin

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Hitler was 6’4
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Hitler was 6'4. This is common knowledge.

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Stalin hit a real low point when the Germans invaded. Seems I remember even reading or watching that he even secluded himself for a time when things were bleakest.

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Stalin’s stupid moments are very easily explainable: he was a hardcore alcoholic. The Soviets have tried to cover this up, but he was known for going on massive benders that could give Churchill a big run for his money. It was rumored he had a 10 day bender after Hitler invaded.

Hitler, he just took way too many stupid gambles and just got lucky as shite at every turn. Seriously, you try to overthrow your government and it only results in you spending 7 months in jail? I don’t blame Hitler after that for thinking he could get away with anything. Hitler invading France the entire world thought he was ludicrous, but it paid off. I can’t process why he held off on Dunkirk. Invading Yugoslavia was pointless and petty and meant he had to delay invading Russia for over a month.

Hitler’s stupidity didn’t start with his drug addictions. He also surrounded himself with evil geniuses like Himmler, Goebells, and Heydrich. If Heydrich has been leading the Third Reich, that would have been bad news. Someone as cunning, calm, resourceful, and pure evil as he was... he would have been worse and more effective than Hitler. Hitler wasn’t stupid, but he underestimated others abilities and overestimated his own at every turn. Stalin’s dumb turns I think can mostly be explained by drunkenness.

No way Hitler was 6’4”

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Cause he sided with the United states?

Survival instinct is not intellect.

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Because Hitler made tons of dumb gambles that just somehow worked out. Stalin was more pragmatic than Hitler, which makes me think he was slightly more intelligent.

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Hitler was 6'4. This is common knowledge.

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And you're 4 ft tall

The Nick Saban inferiority complex.

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Wonder how it would be if not for the United States. Whole world owes those veterans a thank you.

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. Absolutely, no doubt. I have just always wondered how things and history would have went if different scenarios had played out during World War II. It was such a pivotal point in time in the history of the world and the USA. What If Japan never attack’s Pearl Harbor? What if German had developed the bomb first? What if German never invades Russia or if they had waited until early spring? What if Japan had developed the bomb first. Most don’t know they had their own program and some believe they have been further along than Germany.

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I have actually been to red square and it is crazy. On one side there is a big marble square building. His tomb.

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Nope. Stalin’s remains were removed from Red Square in the early 1960’s.

And his real name wasn’t Stalin. It was Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili. He changed his name to Stalin because in the Russian language it means “man made of steel.”

And he wasn’t Russian. He was Georgian.

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when even some of the lesser Nazi leaders' IQ results were published

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1Hjalmar Schacht 143
2Arthur Seyss-Inquart 141
3Hermann Goering 138
4Karl Doenitz 138
5Franz von Papen 134
6Eric Raeder 134
7Dr. Hans Frank 130
8Hans Fritsche 130
9Baldur von Schirach 130
10Joachim von Ribbentrop 129
11Wilhelm Keitel 129
12Albert Speer 128
13Alfred Jodl 127
14Alfred Rosenberg 127
15Constantin von Neurath 125
16Walther Funk 124
17Wilhelm Frick 124
18Rudolf Hess 120
19Fritz Sauckel 118
20Ernst Kaltenbrunner 113
21Julius Streicher 106

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Yeah, big deal. Those are metric.

For the times, it was good.