Talk:Stalin Note

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Wikist 08:18, 13 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] No reason fordoubt the soviets were honestly begging.

Stalin was dead serious. A western person can not understand the sheer amount of destruction the USSR had seen in WWII, the country barely stood and the russian nation was exhausted and never fully recovered since. A proven neutral Germany could prevent a reoccurance of attack forever. The last thing they wanted was an arms race and contentious division in the middle of Europe.

Also, Stalin was never a "world-revolutionary", unlike the "true communists" (especially Trotski, whom he had assasinated). Stalin was kind of an isolationist, who wanted the USSR and a single ring of "border sealing" satellite states so that his communist totalitarian regime could continue unhindered behind the buffer and cared little about exporting the red banner to non-adjacent places.

If you consider, the west's fears of Red Army invading France, Britain or similar developed country are absurd, how could they control and hold those countries where people's heads have long been filled with stupid ideas of democracy and free enterprise? Stalin only wanted the eastern european countries, which barely left fief-and-lords societies and so their population was quite receptive to communist ideology. The GDR was almost entirely demolished (most allied carpet bombing hit the east part of Germany and really bad ground combat happened there) and its limited industrial and mindskill potential (only 1/4 area and people of West germany) was not worth the trouble for Stalin. By 1953 there were monthly anticom riots in East Germany.

I see no problem with Stalin wanting a unified, neutral, social-democrat limited market economy Germany much like a beer-drinking Finland. People like Churchill are responsible for spreading the false image of Alexander Stalin the world conquerer. He had enough subjects to torture and terrorize domestically. 195.70.32.136 16:40, 14 April 2006 (UTC)