Because Quote by Antony Beevor

The heavy casualties, the constant retreat, the shortage of food and munitions, the difficulty of receiving reinforcements... all this had a very bad effect…

— Vasily Chuikov

“How do you build a history based on ceaseless self-slaughter and betrayal? Do you deny it? Forget it? But then you are left orphaned.…

— Peter Pomerantsev

“Stalin is one of the most extraordinary figures in world history. He began as a small clerk, and he has never stopped being a…

— Adolf Hitler

Though Stalinism may have been a needless tragedy for both the Russian people and communism as an ideal, there is the intellectually tantalizing possibility…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

Stalin is a shameful stain on our country's history.

— Ksenia Sobchak

A thousand years hence, every German will speak with awe of Stalingrad and remember that it was there that Germany put the seal on…

— Joseph Goebbels

“Stalin's mental journey, by 1943, proceeded in the opposite direction to that of Hitler. One moved toward reality; the other moved away from it.…

— Martin Amis

Historians write favorably, you know, for example, about Stalin because he was doing big things.

— Jonah Goldberg

“The street is no longer measured by meters but by corpses ... Stalingrad is no longer a town. By day it is an enormous…

— Max Hastings

“Once in power, Stalin’s campaign to succeed Lenin required a legitimate heroic career which he did not possess because of his experience in what…

— Simon Sebag Montefiore

Hitler wanted to destroy Russia- everyone needs to remember how that ended

— Vladimir Putin

“How do you build a history based on ceaseless self-slaughter and betrayal? Do you deny it? Forget it? But then you are left orphaned.…

— Peter Pomerantsev