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Let me get this straight, someone is defending Stalin? The crops failed because the Soviet system was pitifly inadequate and mismanaged. Accounts differ, but most Ukranian observers of the time say grain was transferred to Moscow while Soviet reports claim a total crop failure. Both are probably correct. Volumns have been written about the purges and death camps in Siberia by Russians themselves. The goofy bastard killed his best generals before WWII out of paranoia and was forced to make do with the monsters we read as heros today, like Zukov who wasted thousands againsed a fortified hill outside Berlin just to beat his competetion to Hitler. Were it not for the American intervention and supplies, the USSR would be a German provence today (not really, the Russian people are brave, they would have defeated Hitler in time) We went after Hitler because he was the greatest danger to us at the time. We went after the Soviets in subordinate nations because the fear of nuke response was to great for direct confrontation. Thank heaven Stalin purged his best intellectuals so their industry and military never reached ours though their population was much larger. Communism and Marxism are bankrupt ideologies, Stalin was a monster bound to no ideology but self preservation.