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Originally posted by Sidd Finch
Mild con -- at least when the discussion is about Stalin, etc., Spanky doesn't resort to his classic "stories about people I hob-nob with as a substitute for analytical thought" routine.
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Each nulcear bomb that we dropped on Russia would have killed maybe - 150,000. I think Hiroshima was about 100,000 and Nagasaki was 80,000. I will be generous and say 500,000 if we really targeted them well. Stalin killed that many people for breakfast.
He killed over two million returning prisoners of war. Then he started deporting everyone that "helped" the Germans. That was pretty much every minority. He deported, I think four million Crimean Tatars, over half of who died. Between 45 and 48 Stalin moved millions of people around the European map like they were chess pieces (a large percentage of whom died in the process). And then he got down to extermination. Even twenty atom bombs would have seemed like a tea party compared to what was about to happen.
The Byelorussians, the Ukrainians and the baltic people all welcomes the Nazis as liberators. We could have at least told Stalin to get the hell out of those countries. We had the bomb. He didn't. We were definitely in a position to dictate terms.
