He expelled the Bolsheviks, drove out the domestic internationalists, massacred ethnic German farmers by means of starvation in Ukraine while shipping their crops off to western Europe, so he could afford industrializing the USSR, had the German military destroyed in patriotic zeal, formed strong alliances with the crony-capitalist west, in so doing ensuring the preservation and continued existence of the peoples of the Russian empire of communist states.
What's not for them to respect, if not love, about him?
carnold03 0 points 6 hours ago
He expelled the Bolsheviks, drove out the domestic internationalists, massacred ethnic German farmers by means of starvation in Ukraine while shipping their crops off to western Europe, so he could afford industrializing the USSR, had the German military destroyed in patriotic zeal, formed strong alliances with the crony-capitalist west, in so doing ensuring the preservation and continued existence of the peoples of the Russian empire of communist states.
What's not for them to respect, if not love, about him?