{"id":36745,"date":"2019-10-22T01:00:40","date_gmt":"2019-10-22T05:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=36745"},"modified":"2019-10-21T09:11:54","modified_gmt":"2019-10-21T13:11:54","slug":"qotd-the-soviet-contribution-to-defeating-hitler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2019\/10\/22\/qotd-the-soviet-contribution-to-defeating-hitler\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: The Soviet contribution to defeating Hitler"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; padding: 0px 15px 0px 0px\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-48672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png 400w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-50x50.png 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>Stalin emerged from the second world war as its most successful warlord, head of a nation whose contribution to the destruction of Nazism had won worldwide admiration. Although the leaders of the western states quickly understood the threat posed by the new Soviet Empire to freedom and democracy, many of their citizens did not.<\/p>\n<p>Between 1941 and 1945 so much praise had been heaped upon Uncle Joe, the defenders of Stalingrad, heroic factory workers of the Volga and suchlike, that thereafter it proved a hard task to disabuse many people of their illusions about Mother Russia. They were not wrong in believing that hundreds of thousands of young British and American men were alive in 1945 because Red soldiers had done more than their rightful share of dying.<\/p>\n<p>Any examination of the Bolshevik revolution and its legacy must linger on the Great Patriotic War, because that victory remains the only indisputable and durable achievement the rulers of Russia can boast since 1917, save the invention of some remarkable weapons systems and spacecraft.<\/p>\n<p>Max Hastings, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/2016\/12\/the-centenary-of-the-russian-revolution-should-be-mourned-not-celebrated\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8220;The centenary of the Russian revolution should be mourned, not celebrated&#8221;, <em>The Spectator<\/em><\/a>, 2016-12-10.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stalin emerged from the second world war as its most successful warlord, head of a nation whose contribution to the destruction of Nazism had won worldwide admiration. Although the leaders of the western states quickly understood the threat posed by the new Soviet Empire to freedom and democracy, many of their citizens did not. 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