What are your thoughts on the reign of Comrade Stalin in the USSR? What achievements and shortcomings can you attribute to him personally?
I'm not going to attribute any achievements to him; Comrade Alex Ghost will handle that.
Shortcomings: short stature, one arm withered, covered in smallpox scars. Not a handsome man, not at all. They even tried to make him look better in official portraits (and this, mind you, was in the days before Photoshop!!!).
He was a coward and rather foolish. A worthless little man.
Well, that's how it is.
Fortunately, I didn't live through his reign, but my grandmother didn't speak well of him... No, not good, not good...
