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Hitler was the stooge Stalin used to start World War II. World War II was to be Stalin's instrument of conquest. Stalin planned a World War I redux that would leave an exhausted and helpless Europe ripe for Cornmunist takeover. The Treaty of Versailles had forbidden Germany to have a strong army or any offensive weapons, such as military aircraft, tanks, heavy artillery , and submarines. Versailles had created starvation as well as economic, social, and political chaos in Germany and filled the people with a terrible thirst for revenge. Stalin saw a vengeful Germany as the perfect catalyst to trigger a new war. In great secrecy during the 1920s, Stalin gave the future Wehrmacht and Luftwaffe all the facilities and equipment they needed in the Soviet Union to rebuild their military machine. Stalin saw Hitler and the Nazis's vengeance crusade as the perfect instrument to achieve his ends.

In the 1920s and 1930s, Stalin pursued a long-range plan of conquest:

1.To build the most powerful political party and control apparatus in the world – the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) and the political police – the NKVD.

2.To build the most powerful industrial machine in the world – a giant arsenal.

3.To build the most powerful military machine in the world – the Red Army and the Red Air Force.

4.To bring Hitler and the Nazis to power and use them to start World War II.

5.To crush an exhausted Europe, at the opportune moment in the war, with the mighty Red Army and Red Air Force.

6.To occupy and control Europe with the CPSU/NKVD apparatus.

In the 1930s, Stalin created the mightiest military machine in the world. Giant tank and aircraft factories were built all over the Soviet Union. Millions were inducted in the Red Army; tens of millions were trained in the para-military Osoaviakhim. Millions were recruited into the NKVD. During the Great Terror (1934-1938) millions of people were executed or shipped off to the slave labor camps in the vast Siberian Gulag. Stalin murdered tens of millions of people putting this giant apparatus into operation. In 1941, this gigantic machine was poised waiting to seize Europe.

The first section of the book describes:

1.Lenin's and Sta1in's attempts to capture Germany in the 1920s.

2.Stalin's consolidation of power in the Great Purges of the 1930s.

3.Stalin's role in maneuvering Hitler into starting World War II.

4.Stalin' s strategies to seize Europe at the optimum point in the war,

5.Russian and German military equipment and tactics.

If as he planned, Stalin had attacked before Hitler did in 1940 or 1941, he would have almost certainly beaten Germany and conquered Western Europe. What Stalin did to the Russian people in the 1930s, he would have done to the Europeans in the 1940s. He would have imposed on Europe another "Great Terror" such as the one he had just imposed on his own people. Since the Europeans, unlike the Russians, were not accustomed to centuries of control and repression, the terror would have been, by necessity. far more severe.

The second section of the book tries to show what would have happened to the people of Europe in the 1940s and beyond had Stalin been able to impose his monstrous system on them. It tries to explain the fundamental nature of the system Lenin and Stalin created and to describe the incredible slaughter and suffering it caused. Attention is focused on the vast Gulag and the tens of millions of innocent people who perished in this frozen hell.

At Solovki, one of the earliest Gulag camps, there was a huge sign that captured the essence of the Communist system: “WITH AN IRON FIST, WE WILL LEAD HUMANITY TO HAPPINESS”. Nobody knows how many people the CPSU murdered between 1917 and 1991. As you will see in the charts and tables, our calculations (originally done in 1970) indicated that the Bolshevik regime killed approximately 130,000,000 people during this period. Our calculations were confirmed by one of the world's leading authorities on the Bolshevik slaughter, Roman Krutsyk, Chairman of Kiev Memorial, who said: “You're absolutely right-- the figure is about 130 000 000.” (E-mail “UCCA”ucca@i.kiev.ua dated 4 April 2005) Mr. Krutsyk estimates that “50 million ethnic Ukrainians within the borders of the Soviet Union” were killed by the Bolsheviks in this 1917-1991 period.

To lend perspective to these numbers, consider the fact that the total casualties in World War I World War II were 65,000,000 (WWI: 15,000,000; WW II 50,000,000). Utopia Empowered became Murder Incorporated!

During Collectivization, people were being executed, starved or sent to the Gulag by the millions. When the starving people started eating dogs and cats, the Party killed all the dogs and cats. When the people started eating birds, the party killed all the birds. When the people started eating orphan children, the Party shot or poisoned all orphan children. During the Purges, about 10 percent of the population of the Soviet Union (approximately 15,000,000) were executed outright or shipped off to the Gulag to be worked to death. After World War II, the Gulag population reached approximately 40,000,000 people.

In the Gulag, guards and criminals killed prisoners for diversion. Notorious Magadan commandant Ivan Nikishov, entertained himself by dancing around the prisoner formations, raining obscenities on them and shooting them at random. In 1944, Vice-President Henry Wallace and Professor Owen Lattimore visited Magadan; Nikishov was their host. Wallace found Magadan idyllic, noting approvingly how Nikishov “gamboled about, enjoying the wonderful air.” Lattimore admired Nikishov's “trained and sensitive interest in art and music and a deep sense of civic responsibility.” Nikishov had set up a “Potemkin” camp; all the prisoners and guards were NKVD; his guests were completely duped.

Robert Conquest, The Great Terror, pp 353-354.

Some post-World War II history of the CPSU and the KGB are covered; but primary attention is focused on the activities of the CPSU and the NKVD during the 1930s. Though there were bureaucratic reorganizations and name changes, nothing fundamental about the CPSU or the NKVD/KGB changed until their demise. What I've tried to do is come up with some new perspectives on old material, in hopes that better researchers than I will pursue the truth. Most of the basic information has been available since the 1930s and 1940s. The liberal establishment have been unwilling to face the ugly truths about the great Utopian experiment they so admire. At best, they are like Jean-Paul Sartre, who said that even if the stories of the Gulag were true, French workers should not be told—they might become anti-Soviet. At worst, they are like Communist playwright Bertolt Brecht. When Brecht was told that Stalin had sent thousands of innocents to the Gulag, he replied: “The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to die.”

Though numerous sources were used in developing the manuscript, most of the fundamental data can be confirmed by reading the following books, cited in the bibliography:

Robert Conquest, The Great Terror.

R. J. Rummell, Lethal Politics.

Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956; The Gulag Archipeligo Two

Viktor Suvorov, Icebreaker, Who Started the Second World War?

Ernst Topitsch, Stalin's War

Albert L. Weeks, Stalin’s Other War.