Stalin's role in World War II was instrumental in the victory of humanity over Nazism. Slandered by his internal opponents and bourgeois ideologists after his death in 1953, his military merits are rarely given the prominence they deserve, while battles and smaller leaders are given more prominence than the Soviet steel leader.
<em>“In the direction of armed struggle, Stalin was generally helped by his natural intelligence and wealth of intuition. He knew how to discover the main element of a strategic situation and, as a result, he knew how to respond to the enemy, to unleash this or that important offensive operation.
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<em>"There is no doubt: he was worthy of the supreme command."</em>
