Apparently (according to the American ambassador to the USSR) Stalin said to the American ambassador, when the latter asked him whether he was proud that the Soviet army got to Berlin, that 'Tsar Alexander got to Paris'. Honestly I also suspected that that was some anti-soviet propaganda bullshit to support the notion that the Soviets wanted to cast an imperial blanket over all Europe and so the US had to step in to defend it. And even if it was actually said it was definitely a joke.
But have you considered that interet warriors in 2023 may know more about military strategy than one of the greatest statemen of the 20th century who'd just gone through the most destructive conflict in history?
Is that not normally a joke?
Apparently (according to the American ambassador to the USSR) Stalin said to the American ambassador, when the latter asked him whether he was proud that the Soviet army got to Berlin, that 'Tsar Alexander got to Paris'. Honestly I also suspected that that was some anti-soviet propaganda bullshit to support the notion that the Soviets wanted to cast an imperial blanket over all Europe and so the US had to step in to defend it. And even if it was actually said it was definitely a joke.
But have you considered that interet warriors in 2023 may know more about military strategy than one of the greatest statemen of the 20th century who'd just gone through the most destructive conflict in history?