Is Stalin considered a good military leader.

It is generally agreed that he did not value human life(and he sacrificed many of his own), but would the Red Army have dealt so many blows to Hitler without him.

It is generally agreed that he did not value human life(and he sacrificed many of his own), but would the Red Army have dealt so many blows to Hitler without him.

Mercenary848

I doub't russia would have survived if they weren't ruthless. all the great wartime leaders were ruthless, Churchill allowed thousands of people in London to die so thatgermany didn't know Britain had broken the enigma codes.

Yes the Red army could have performed much better had Stalin not come to power in 1921

No but he had a cool mustache.

No.. The only thing that has ever saved Russia time and time again from begin taken over from Nepolean to World War 2 had nothing to do with their military force as being the primary factor.. Its due to the fact their country is so damn big as well as the lands used to invade the country are extremely brutal terrain with some extremely hostile winters.. Furthermore their military campaign in turning the tables on the Germans during World War 2 amounted to conscripting every man they could find and putting a gun at their backs forcing to go forward.sSubZerOo

[QUOTE="sSubZerOo"]No.. The only thing that has ever saved Russia time and time again from begin taken over from Nepolean to World War 2 had nothing to do with their military force as being the primary factor.. Its due to the fact their country is so damn big as well as the lands used to invade the country are extremely brutal terrain with some extremely hostile winters.. Furthermore their military campaign in turning the tables on the Germans during World War 2 amounted to conscripting every man they could find and putting a gun at their backs forcing to go forward.LJS9502_basic

Hitler was a extremely poor strategist, and men like Rommel (spelling?) were the real brains behind the military incursions.. But historically speaking Russia has been shown to be just as hard to invade as Great Britain..

[QUOTE="LJS9502_basic"][QUOTE="sSubZerOo"]No.. The only thing that has ever saved Russia time and time again from begin taken over from Nepolean to World War 2 had nothing to do with their military force as being the primary factor.. Its due to the fact their country is so damn big as well as the lands used to invade the country are extremely brutal terrain with some extremely hostile winters.. Furthermore their military campaign in turning the tables on the Germans during World War 2 amounted to conscripting every man they could find and putting a gun at their backs forcing to go forward.sSubZerOo

Hitler was a extremely poor strategist, and men like Rommel (spelling?) were the real brains behind the military incursions.. But historically speaking Russia has been shown to be just as hard to invade as Great Britain..

No but he had a cool mustache.

ScreamDream

My history teacher said Stalin was hiding under his desk when his generals did all the work of holding off the Nazis. Then when it was over, he forced his generals to resign because they became too popular in the country.

No.. The only thing that has ever saved Russia time and time again from begin taken over from Nepolean to World War 2 had nothing to do with their military force as being the primary factor.. Its due to the fact their country is so damn big as well as the lands used to invade the country are extremely brutal terrain with some extremely hostile winters.. Furthermore their military campaign in turning the tables on the Germans during World War 2 amounted to conscripting every man they could find and putting a gun at their backs forcing to go forward.sSubZerOo

For what resources and the economic situation Russia was in during the war Stalin was quite a good military leader. The decision to ally itself with Germany for the first few years of the War probably helped decide whether Russia would win or lose the war. However, there are also many other things such as Hitler's ignorance in invading Russia. I feel Russia would have come out even better from the war than they did had Trotsky taken power in the 20's. He had had much more experience in military matters then Stalin ever did. A lot of what Stalin had was his massive amount of man power. Its sort of how Zap Brannigan defeated the Killbots. :PxTheExploited