WWII Thread (How come the West never gives the Soviets the credit they deserve)

[mrstickball]

ElChe said:

 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.

I never made mention if this was wrong or right. I only was saying that the troops were fighting for Stalin - his wishes that they would die one way or another. I think Stalin should have done things much differently. After all, he was responsible for the death of many of his troops much like Hitler was responsible for very stupid mistakes during the war. Had Stalin not of purged the army of leaders and 25,000 NCO's, Barbarossa would have went much different.