Quote Originally Posted by N
Quote Originally Posted by Jasper May
So maybe it's not proven that he himself, in person, killed anyone. As someone in this thread said, he did give some of the direct orders (40,000+ was it?).
It was not the "direct orders". That's a good example of misinterpretation.
N, it's absolutely not important. It's an old сказака о хорошем царе и плохих боярах. Anyway, as well as a commander has full responsibility for his unit, as a director is responsible for his works and people, Stalin (and any state governor, especially a dictator) was directly responsible for everything his government did.