Stalin or Hitler

[jj]

warren zevon rip wrote:
> Both Mao and Stalin's largest amounts of deaths came from
> famines - so they are arguably not deliberate.
Stalin's starvation of about 2 million Ukrainian kulaks was a deliberate act
of policy, 'class-warfare' and forced collectivisation.
>

> For 2 points, without looking it up, why was Stalin so called?
'Man of steel'.
> And what was his previous pseudonym?
Koba.

[jj]

Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili.

[Jacques]

Without cheating I can't remember but didn't Stalin mean 'Man of Steel'?

[BeestonBoy]

OK this is my last stab....

Wasn't there one to do with Robin Hood or some thing like that. A Russian version of Robin Hood perhaps....no cant think.

Go on spill the beans

[BeestonBoy]

Koba!!

Thats the Robin Hood thing!!

Thankyou jj

[jj]

I haven't yet got round to reading the 2 vols. by Sebag-Montefiore
[birthday present].

[BeestonBoy]

Sam Slater wrote:


> Mao: The new owner of Manchester City.

!laugh!


Or in charge of "Matels" Chinese operations.

[Jacques]

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