Reply #27: Things that make you go "hmmm..." [View All]

[LanternWaste]

I think anyone with even the smallest amount of administrative capacity could turn a state-run economy to a "total-war" economy. And (according to Kennedy in Rise and Fall of the great Powers), it could have been done much more effectivly, efficiently and a lot less painfully than it was done during Stalin's dictatorship.

I still maintain that the Soviet Union won the war *despite* Stalin's ineptitude and paranoia.