re: History buffs: Interesting fact about Stalin

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He was Lithuanian by desent FIFY. ;)

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Wrong. You’re thinking of Captain Marko Ramius.

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And he wasn’t Russian. He was Lithuanian by desent

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AUTimbo

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Lmao you’re so wrong.

I knew about his pox scars that he was very insecure about, but I didn’t know about that one either.

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FIFY

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Raised by his paternal grandfather, a fisherman?

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Most of his generals thought invading France was stupid

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First of all, it's irrelvant what the generals at the time thought. There was seldom universal agreement amongst German generals, especially at this transitional stage of warfare and Germany's rearmament. They also were not skilled in geopolitics.

The invasion of France was drawn up by Manstein, who would later be considered one of the most brilliant strategic minds of the war, and was opposed by much of the army leadership...and the invasion was a resounding success. So what is your point if not to illustrate an instance where Hitler was right?

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and going into Yugoslavia was outright idiotic and may have been the reason he didn’t beat the USSR

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No it wasn't. It was done to secure the southern flank since Yugoslavia had flipped to pro-British power.

Stalin's decision making in the leadup to the German invasion can absolutely be considered as stupid as the Germans securing their southern flank. Quite moreso I would say.

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Of the authors of the Little Red Book, the US Constitution, the Napoleonic Codes, The Soviet Constitution of 1936, Mao Zedong is the tallest at 5'8

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Thomas Paine, a major contributor of the US Constitution, was five nine.

But James Madison, who wrote the rough first draft of the Constitution, was five four.

There’s a Stalin Museum in Gori, Georgia that includes his childhood home.

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He also might have been assassinated by warfarin poisoning.

The theory stems from 1) warfarin being relatively new and hot as a medication around that time.
2) he died of a stroke(which in of itself it not so weird). But what was weird and the cause for the theory is that he had hemorrhages in other organs at the same time.

It would’ve only taken a few days of dosing with it in his drinks to do the deed.