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Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: Wandering Connecticut
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Interesting Fact
All this talk about Socialism reminded me of something a Russian Politics professor told me a few years back. I don't know if it's ABSOLUTELY true or an exaggeration, but it is interesting nonetheless.
This proves that Josef Stalin was perhaps the most paranoid person that ever lived, and Adolf Hitler was one of the most intelligent (disregarding moral issues).
In order to weaken the Soviet Union during World War II, Hitler would use intelligence channels - agents and double agents - to inform the KGB that Stalin's top Generals were actually double-agents working in tandem with the Axis powers. This wasn't true, of course. Stalin had no way of knowing whether or not this was true, so, always better safe than sorry, he executed all of his top Generals. Hitler continued this process until the highest-commanding Soviet officers were lowly Lieutenants that had to have been promoted through the ranks to fill in the holes left by Stalin's purgings. Thusly, Hitler rendered the Soviet army all but incompetent.
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