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 mrstickball said:

When Stalin ordered that any soldier retreating would be shot and killed, I'd say the soldiers were fighting for Stalin.


For someone who fully justified firebombing of Tokyo and nuking both Nagasaki and Hiroshima, shouldn't such order have made even more sense to you, if ever was given?

But the true irony is that the order actually issued by Stalin was rather different from what you'd imputed him so light-heartedly and brain-washingly. And the measures ordered were temporary.