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Mason Pelt · 4w
Why did Stalin think Hitler would not invade? Because Hitler would not do that. ​Why did Stalin think seed grain would not be needed to feed people next year? New developments in agriculture. ​W...
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Also basically everything Stalin wrote was in this obnoxious question and answer format scene above. I've read so much of his works, and... Well;

Was Stalin a good writer? No, Stalin was not a good writer, at least not of proes and of after translation.
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Mason Pelt · 4w
Stalin's success came from being more of a psychopath than anyone ever estimated. He was physically unimposing and viewed as beneath the intellect of almost everyone else in revolutionary leadership. ​His rivals underestimated him, and overestimated the general value of intellectualism.