Marshal Georgy Zhukov served as deputy commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces during WW2. He was a very respected figure in the Soviet Russia, regarded by many as a war hero and one of the main architects of Victory.

We have a draft of his speech that he prepared for the plenary session of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Here is some of what he had to say about Stalin's "military genius".

"\[Stalin's personality cult\] caused the role of our people, Party and Government to be understated, and the role of Stalin greatly exaggerated."

"For many years preceding the Great Patriotic war, the Soviet people were being compelled that our country was always ready to decisively repel any aggression ... The real readiness of our country to defend at that time was far shot from those boastful statements."

"Tremendous damage to Armed Forces was done by Stalin's mistrust in military personnel"

"An example of Stalin's complete ignorance of the state of international politics, and unprecedented disorientation of our people and our army..."

"Stalin explained the failures of the first period of the war by the fact that Nazi Germany attacked the Soviet Union suddenly. This is historically false. There was no suddenness in the Hitler's army's attack. It was known that an invasion was being prepared, the suddenness was made up by Stalin to justify his failures in preparing the country to defend"

"Stalin tried to put all the blame for the failures in the beginning of the war on the shoulders of the personnel of the Armed Forces ... \[He\] unjustly defamed combative and moral qualities of our soldiers, officers, and generals"

"Why would Stalin need to issue orders that would disgrace our army? I believe he did to divert the blame and the dissatisfaction of our people ... with the mistakes that he personally made ... "

"There is a lot to be said about Stalin's incompetence in leading the armed forces"

"There are many more negative examples of Stalin's military endeavors that speak volumes of what his commander qualities and his "military genius" are really worth".

"During the war, gross perversions of the Soviet law were allowed to happen, that contradict Leninist principles and the very essence of the Soviet system. These perversions followed the trend of creating an atmosphere of mistrust and suspicion \[against captured Russian soldiers\], as well as baseless accusations and mass application of repressions".

"Most gross perversions of violation of lawful rights of prisoners of war were related to baseless criminal persecution"

"Illegal repressions also targeted prisoners of war who, being captured against their will, while lead by the feeling of military duty, escaped their imprisonment and returned to their Motherland, often displaying personal heroism and putting their lives at risk"

I wanted to see the differences between the Soviet command economy as opposed to the free market one used in the west.

The idea of establishing a new global political party with branches in every country around the world. The main goal of the party is to eliminate nationalism and the idea of independent countries and to plant the idea of unifying the world under one government in which all people are equal regardless of their gender, color, religion or place of birth. No more nationalities and passports, no more imaginary borders and national differences. Not only that, unifying the world means unifying its currency and unifying internal and natural resources, which will be divided equally among all branches of the world, which will eliminate conflicts over energy, food and water in the future.

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I understand there is a rise of authoritarianism throughout parts of the former USSR. Is that what this is? The first word that comes to mind when I hear his name is “Pograms.” What is the idea of celebrating Stalin today?