20 Anyway,
21 The Russian peasants,
22 That is, the Russian comrades,
23 Stopped the Germans at Stalingrad at a cost of no more than a few million casualties,
24 aWhich convinced Stalin that Russia was now definitely a Chosen Nation,
25 And could start throwing its weight around like everyone else.
CHAPTER 201 When the Germans surrendered, Stalin claimed that all of eastern Europe belonged to Russia,
2 Including Poland,
3 And Czechoslovakia,
4 And Hungary,
5 And Albania,
6 And Romania,
7 And East Germany,
8 Because any fool could see that all the eastern Europeans had become completely miserable under Hitler,
9 And had therefore become spiritual comrades of the Russkies,
10 bWho were the only ones that knew how to maintain just the right level of misery.
11 Then Stalin went to work building a gigantic iron curtain that would keep western Europe out of the communist cparadise the Russkies were creating in eastern Europe.
12 The other victorious allies,
13 Including the Americans and the British and the French,
14 Saw and accepted the wisdom of Stalin's logic,
15 dFor some reason,
16 eAnd agreed to it on behalf of the Poles and the Czechs and the Hungarians and the Albanians and the Romanians and the East Germans,
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17 Except the part about Berlin,
18 Which couldn't possibly belong to Russia,
19 fFor some reason.
20 Then,
21 Just to make sure that the Europeans and the Americans knew better than to try to gbreak in,
22 hStalin also arranged to borrow some nuclear secrets from the Americans,
23 Although the Russkies claimed that they developed the technology on their own,
24 Which is probably true,
25 iSince everyone knows that the Russkies have always excelled at science and high technology,
26 Beginning with the invention of the potato,
27 Not to mention the invention of vodka.
CHAPTER 211 Then jStalin did a whole bunch of great things for the Russkie people.
2 kHe built a huge number of gigantic nuclear bombs, and planes to drop them on enemies all over the world.
3 lHe invented a new Marxist way of farming that made the comrades even more miserable than the peasants had been.
4 mHe built an incredible number of huge new industrial cities that allowed very large numbers of comrades to be miserable in much less space than had ever been possible before,
5 nIncluding huge new apartment complexes, where three or four families could be miserable together in the same room,
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