Everyone knows Hitler as the embodiment of evil with the Allies as the forces of good. But within the ranks of these "good" stood an achiever but also a butcher greater than the defeated German leader. Joseph Stalin propelled the Soviet Union into the position of superpower at a great expense of lives, even larger than that of Hitler. He made planning trending, but also did the same for gulags, slave labor, and famine.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
Popular Posts This Week
-
King Mongkut (Rama IV) The 19th century saw a new era of colonization and imperialism. Europeans scramble to take many lands as possib...
-
Great Britain and France – a rivalry that ran for more than a half a millennium, but in the quest for industrial revolution, unfortunatel...
-
BASF Factory (1881) She emerged as the most industrialized country by the end of the 19th century. Germany surpassed the home of the i...
-
Gia Long The 19th century opened for Vietnam with a new dynasty in power – the Nguyens . From overlords to the ruling family of Vietna...
-
From the chaos brought by the death of Shias and Sunnis, a new caliphate rose. From the brutal murder of Caliph Uthman and the disintegrat...
