Actually this brings up sort of a conundrum for me, you see, Stalin killed millions of his own people when he created a famine by selling massive amounts of Soviet grown food on the cheap with the goal of industrializing his nation. It worked. In 5 years the Soviet Union grew from a backwards agricultural country to a major industrial powerhouse. One could argue that if those Soviet Union was not that industrial society it was at the time it entered World War II that they would have lost, Operation Barbarossa would have succeeded, and Germany might have ultimately won the war. So my question to you forums, is Stalin a Hero? Or is Stalin a Villain? Did the end justify the means?
