Message from @Salt
Discord ID: 297843817405480962
"stick with what worked last time"
Soviet Union is the result of all of that
Hitler-Stalin pact is the result of French and British incompetence
Which would have never happened have they only pledged to invade Germany as soon as it reoccuppied Rhineland, or mess with a neighbouring nation
All the beggining is Napoleon
like said @Salt
They only had to pledge to do so, because Hitler would've never did all he did if he didn't observe complete lethargy
Well, Napoleon was in many ways a better leader than what followed
He was ambitious yes, but his "acts" were always backed up by rifles and boots
He was distrustful of burreaucracy
in Hearths of Iron 4, i invade earth cause it's cool
in the real world, this is stupid
Hitler paid too
like many other empires
Napoleon never really invaded countries just like that
It was a complex, but not entirely outrageous series of consecutive vents
events *
He left all major monarchies intact
In fact, he created some more, like Italy
Napoleon wanted for himself dominant spot in Europe and he wasn't the first or last European to try to do so
I don't really believe that Napoleon was agent of these ideas
Nor helped their proliferation
he was not, he stopped the mess in France, but he had some of it
His position towards revolution itself was entirely cynical
Funny thing is, while Stalin commited many great errors in his domestic rule
the human's rights was one of his prime ideas
He was way more serious in his foreign policy
Which was recognized by Hitler, who considered Stalin (he didnt directly say it) his greatest opponent
Not only due to the immediacy of their conflict
STALIN DID NOT SMOKE ROYAL YACHT
Americans were more powrful
IMPORTANT TO REMEMBER
STALIN SMOKED "HERZEGOVINA FLOR"
AND NEVER CLEANED HIS PIPES
But because he understood that Stalin "owed nothing to demagogy" (Hitler's words)
MR. MUNDUNGUS
DEMAGOGY => DEMOTISM
Stalin surely did make mistakes in his strategic thinking
But more importantly
He never forgave mistakes