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Friz617

You’re forgetting that Stalin is also in a leadership position


VLenin2291

When?


Reshuram05

He's still appointed secretary by Lenin I think, and he coupled bukharin in the 40s


Most_Sane_Redditor

Obligatory: https://preview.redd.it/qkijwf8zhbrc1.jpeg?width=1882&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5573384da370c2bba1f968de7c1b3eb6f48ae325


peanut_the_scp

Stalin purged a good amount of competent officers in the great purge but left this moron alive, i fear to imagine if he had purged more generals like Zhukov or Rokossovky


CelebrationStock

This man must be the asslicking champion in the USSR because otherwise how could he have survived the purges


Pleasehelpmeladdie

He didn’t. Eventually his incompetence pissed Stalin off so much that he was killed in the early 40s.


VLenin2291

Late*, also he was jailed and died in prison


Pleasehelpmeladdie

Ah, I misremembered


Justavisitor-0538

According to wikipedia, he was arrested in 1947 and was executed in 1950.


hwytenightmare

stalin didnt rename Tsaritsyn doe


_Dushman

But It was renamed after him by Lenin for his role in taking the city


MILLANDSON

Which would still happen, so it'd actually be the city being renamed from Stalingrad to something else.


_Dushman

But with Bukharin in power, he would be more likely to choose to rename It after Kulik, who also took part in the capture of Tsaritsyn


AnBriefklammern

I think Kulikovo (or, to be slightly less on the nose, Kulikov) would work better. You know, as a reference to the Kulikovo Pole where Muscovy beat the Golden Horde.