> I was astonished to learn that in a way somewhat similar to what you've > described, this resembles how Stalin was killed, for he was planning the > next world war, initiated by Soviet Beast and involving nuclear attack upon > 'the West' when he was ruthlessly canceled as a life form and menace to > humanity. >
***** Well, Stalin was certainly a scumbag (see link/clipping below), but he died in 1953, when the USSR only had a handful of nuke weapons and pitiful delivery systems. If anything, it was Mao later in the 50s and early 60s who was encouraging the Russkis to start a nuclear war since he would have had plenty of Chinese leftover after the West launched all its megatonnage, thereby "winning" the war with the West. Best Cocktail-Party Factoid The New York Review of Books reveals that, in his early years, Joseph Stalin went through "forty different names, nicknames, bylines, and aliases at various times," which only barely exceeds the number of his professions: "revolutionary, bank robber, gangster, singer, poet, womanizer, pedophile."G.H. http://www.slate.com/id/2176782/
