Comments by "" (@charlesvan13) on "The American Stalinist Economics Professor" video.

  1. Early on when the Russians were losing, didn't Stalin have his own retreating men shot?
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  2.  @jonathanraleigh8456  It's never a good policy to kill your own soldiers and officers. Hitler also diverted resources to the "final solution" when the war was going badly.
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  3. There was also "lend lease" where the American's provided the Soviet Union with weapons and supplies. Hitler was defeated because there was no way he could win a war on 2 fronts, supplied by a country with undamaged infrastructure, the USA.
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  4. Conditions were so bad in Russia during the war that the Russian life expectancy was just 23 years.
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  5. It's not a good system when it actually causes famines killing millions.
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