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Post by seven stars on Feb 22, 2005 9:56:31 GMT -5
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Post by skinz unlogged on Feb 22, 2005 10:04:40 GMT -5
HAHA!! Kim Jong Il is, yet again, being overlooked.
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Post by seven stars on Feb 22, 2005 10:08:55 GMT -5
Skinz... He was ranked number two out of the top ten. What do you mean?
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Post by skinz unlogged on Feb 22, 2005 10:34:18 GMT -5
Skinz... He was ranked number two out of the top ten. What do you mean? I was pointing at the fact that he isn't # 1. These men are all evil for what they've done to their country, but we all know that recognition is what all they're after in cruel way. And since North Korea have been getting some news press recently,yet, he's not the number one is rather funny in my opinion.
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Post by skinz unlogged on Feb 22, 2005 10:39:05 GMT -5
Also, your link states that he was number one last year when his nuclear weapons wasn't knowledgable. But a year later, he's dropped from the top spot when we know he has nuclear weapons.
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Post by seven stars on Feb 22, 2005 13:01:36 GMT -5
Ahh...
Point well taken Skinz. Sorry about the confusion.
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Post by ID on May 11, 2005 12:48:14 GMT -5
I find it unbelievable that whenever "worst military leaders in history" is mentioned, only recent dictators are thought of. Stalin may have been responsible for millions of deaths, but he was not as wicked, or cold hearted, as Ivan the Terrible, or Vlad Dracula.
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generaldu
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Post by generaldu on May 11, 2005 16:19:22 GMT -5
I find it unbelievable that whenever "worst military leaders in history" is mentioned, only recent dictators are thought of. Stalin may have been responsible for millions of deaths, but he was not as wicked, or cold hearted, as Ivan the Terrible, or Vlad Dracula. While the world has primarily Stalin to thank for the ultimate defeat of Hitler (allowing that we must give Churchill much credit for not making an armistice with Germany in 1940) I don't think Josef Stalin takes a back seat to anyone in history as a purely evil and ruthlessly effective dictator. He killed millions of his "own" people even in peacetime. Once the Soviet's regained their balance after their treacherous ally, Germany, invaded the USSR in WW II, however, Stalin presided over a military industrial complex that efficiently mass produced and deployed the various weapons and immense forces necessary to defeat the Nazis. So as a "military leader" Stalin would have to rank in a cruelly ironic way as among history's best and most indispensable for his role in the Allied Forces victory over the Nazis. With the war's end, Soviet military strength had evolved to such a point that the United States and Great Britain were incapable of dislodging Stalin from any of the occupied territories that he decided to keep.
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