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      Yes, as a response to Roosevelt joking in fact. The (likely apocryphal) anecdote goes, while meeting at the Tehran conference in 1943 Roosevelt suggested unseriously that after the war they should execute 10,000 Nazi officers, Stalin replied 10,000? Why not 50,000?

      Then Churchill stormed out in a huff because “they were just honorable men defending their nation”.

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          Truly the historical figure that makes me angriest thanks to his mainstream historical perception as a lovable roguish wholesome chungus, versus his actual nature as an oafish brutal bloodsoaked demon - especially compared against the heap of trash piled on the name of Stalin.

          Liberals will accuse you of falling for “cult of personality propaganda” and then act like Winston doesn’t have a place in hell right next to Adolf.