28th October 2003, 9:19 PM
Both of them? I don't know, Hitler started the war... but Stalin was responsible too because of how he, just before the war, gutted (see: executed) most of his armies' officer corps and refused to let them be ready for invasion, making it hard...
And before that he'd spent the better part of the last two decades 'purging' everyone who represented any kind of a threat to him.
And before that he'd spent the better part of the last two decades 'purging' everyone who represented any kind of a threat to him.