Comments by "LancesArmorStriking" (@LancesArmorStriking) on "Today I Found Out" channel.

You should read yours as well, it'd be a shame if the oldest a person lived was 1.22 decades (That's about 12 years and 3 months old)! 12.2 is the correct answer
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PuraguCryostato Don't be so daft. Just because Pilecki was a Catholic does not make the Church immune to criticism. He might have objected in his time, but we know more about the crimes of the Church today then ever before. I doubt that Pilecki would be comfortable with the rape of little boys, or (as Mother Teresa did) withholding medical treatment from children because "pain brings them closer to God." Please, don't compare the two. Ever heard of the phrase "don't meet your heroes?" That's what this situation is— a follower that is 'holier' than his idols.
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@danialyousaf6456 I mean capable in a military sense. His extreme paranoia led him to commit mass murder of the finest Soviet officers, yet even despite that he managed to lead the country and relocate Russia's entire industry behind the Urals, after being sucker-punched by Germany. He refused to leave Moscow even as it was surrounded by Nazi forces during their offensive to take the capitol. A captain goes down with his ship, as you say. And yes, he's a bully who cheated his way to the top, but Trotsky was too ideological and would likely have overstretched Russia's resources in pursuit of global Revolution. It would have fizzled out, and Russia would have been split up by Western powers. Once again, I say- Stalin was, with all his flaws, the best option for Russia.
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@douglaslally156 Seems like that would have its problems, too. That would give their "friendly long-lost relatives" more time to "negotiate" with them.
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@danialyousaf6456 Why exactly does that make him worse than Alexander, or especially Genghis Khan? Khan caused far, far more destruction than Stalin could ever have dreamt of. Why do you place some strange value on not killing one's own people? People are all equal, deaths by Khan are just as tragic as Stalin. I think you're just splitting hairs, looking for a reason to hate a capable, if extremely brutal, leader of Russia.
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@danialyousaf6456 "The amount of people he had starved, hung, shot and had much worse things done to makes Hitler's actionslook like child's play" No, not really. While his actions (namely, killing off 5M officers and leftover intelligentsia) were brutal, they are incomparable to the damage Hitler caused. Invading and subjugating most of Europe, killing millions explicitly with the goal of eradicating a culture and people, are nothing compared to a bog-standard famine. Even Churchill did that, and no one bats an eyelash because he was on America's team. Read over (or just read about) Generalplan Ost. Stalin only achieved more than Hitler in terms of death and destruction because Hitler didn't get the chance. He planned on wiping 99% of Slavs off the face of the Earth, and Germanizing or enslaving the rest. It would have made the Holocaust look like child's play, as you said. As for the rape of Berlin.. this is not a proud moment. But, after all the Soviet civilians that Nazi officers- most of whom were fresh out of training, practically civilians themselves- had raped, murdered, or tortured, many see it as a form of payback. If we're valuing all lives equally, the Germans did far more in terms of sheer numbers. So I question your reason for bringing that up. Like it or not, he was there precisely at the moment in history when he was needed. He may have been a monster, but Tsar Nicholas II was not going to beat a resurgent Germany. Europe would be speaking German right now, had Stalin not existed. Sorry.
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@danialyousaf6456 "the only reason Hitler managed to invade Europe was cuz Stalin gave him the go ahead" You're sorely mistaken here. Remember, it was Britain (infamously, Chamberlain) who wanted to appease Hitler after the annexation of Austria and Czechoslovakia. Stalin, meanwhile, was trying to form a pre-emptive alliance against Germany, along with Britain's Communist Party. Soviet Ambassador to Britain, Ivan Maiksy, asked the Chamberlain government multiple times to form an anti-Nazi alliance, but... "better Hitlerism than Communism" was a common phrase among the posh. What you just wrote to me, with complete confidence, was completely wrong. I hope you bear that in mind next time you're debating someone. Check your sources. And thank you, for being courteous.
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