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Baobab

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2. Stalin was killed by his own associates because he really did want to start that war

Reply to Warpy (Reply #1)

Mon Mar 14, 2016, 08:39 PM

Mar 2016

He was a madman in every sense of the word.

I don't agree with the MacCarthyists on practically anything but on the point of Stalin and nuclear war, they were definitely right. Power does horrible things to people.

Nuclear weapons are really horrible. And i am sure everybody knows the dual story of the Soviet Tsar Bomba and the miscalculation at Bikini Atoll.

We could have lost our planet's atmosphere!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsar_Bomba

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_Bravo

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It's hard to explain to anyone who wasn't there Warpy Jul 2015 #1

Stalin was killed by his own associates because he really did want to start that war Baobab Mar 2016 #2

The McCarthyites might have been correct about Stalin, but they were late to the party Warpy Mar 2016 #3

Even a small nuclear war would kill two billion people indirectly Baobab Mar 2016 #4

I love that area.. its spectacularly beautiful. Baobab Mar 2016 #5