What did Stalin do in World War 2 and was he a good Allied leader during the war?

Answer 1

No, the purges that Stalin implemented in the early 30s led to disaster in the Soviet Army. This was nowhere more apparent than the Soviet's abysmal performance against the Fins in the winter war of 39-40. The Soviets possessed all of the advantages and still the Fins managed to bloody their noses. Without an idiot like Hitler, Stalin would have lost the Soviet Union. Or if Hitler would have listened to his General Staff, Operation Barbarossa (Drang nach Osten) would have succeeded. Stalin was first and foremost out for Stalin. His armies he argued (and rightly so) fought and bled the Wehrmacht dry. If the Allies had ever had one surrender of over 250,000 or more troops, they would have been driven out of the war. Stalin was successful only because his nemisis Hitler was incompetent when it came to the arts of Strategic war. And the worse thing about it is that the German General Staff was the best organization the world had seen to that point for conducting such a war. No Stalin was not a good leader to the Allies. Only because the Germans had invaded the Soviet Union did he enter the fight. Stalin contributed more to the defeat of the Nazi's then the rest of the Allies combined. To think that Stalin was a bad Allied leader during the war is just plain ignorance. Hitler's "Operation: Barbarossa" was the LARGEST invasion in human history. Had Hitler sent those forces elsewhere, he could have defeated any enemy. Stalin had indeed purged several commanders during the Purge Trials, however, during the entire 1930's under Stalin's Five-Year Plans, the Red Army was modernized and built up, becoming one of the largest and advanced armies on the planet at the time. Had he not done this the Soviet Union would have surely collapsed. Stalin's contributions definitely outweight those of the other Allies. Stalin's Red Army defeated the Nazi's at Stalingrad, which was the Nazi's first major defeat and the turning point of all World War II. The war between Hitler and Stalin was the largest war to ever be fought. Stalin not only stopped the massive Nazi attack, but he also made a massive counter-attack and it was the Soviet Red Army that reached the German capital of Berlin, not the rest of the Allies. No doubt Stalin contributed the greatest in WWII and no doubt he was a good Allied leader. http://mars.wnec.edu/~grempel/courses/ww2/lectures/warlord.html http://www.plp.org/books/Stalin/node139.html I totally agree with the person above

Few people know the actual prowess and ability Iosif Dzugashvili (better known as Joseph Stalin) possessed, choosing to believe the popular theory that he was ruthless and inefficient. He led the Soviet Union to become one of two nations to come out of World War 2 as a superpower. He also led the Union through the dark days of World War 2, which the Soviets suffered most in.