Who do you admire?

-_-;; Nobody mentioned Dr. Sun Yat-Sen.

Without Dr. Sun there would've been no ROC or PRC. He is the one true national-father (Guo-Fu) of the Chinese Republic.

what are u talking bout? i mentioned him in my previous post.

why isnt ghengis khan on here? or saladin? they wer both great leaders. they certainly had a larger impact on history than zhang ge liang.

renmin said:

Stalin is the one who led russia to victory in WWII. he also helped china in technology, he sent several of russia's top scientists to china to help with the technology effort. Stalin was no bad leader, it was not till near the end of his life did he start to become a little "weard", in a way, stalin loved power.

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Oh wow, he stopped the Nazis from invading his country. I think anyone in his position would defend the country! And in the beginning of his reign he helped fund the Nationalists, who at that time were allied with the Communists. Isn't it fun to commit genocide!

thats not close to all stalin did. he basically spurred the russian industrial and military revolution. people who agreed with his thinking found themselves with cars, homes, nightclubs, and jobs. people who didnt...dissapeared to siberia. he built the soviet empire from the remains of ww2. thge ak-47, t-34, and mig-15 were all the fruits of stalins programs.

fatman churchill was a deuchesbag. Bismarck, by far, is the more intelligent of the two. But to say these two have much better "characters" than the rest is just plain bullsh!t I expect to hear from that moron GerMark.

Once again, I motion for the establishment of an IQ filter.

Stalin was a good leader, what really messed up russia were the following leaders after him who lust for more power than stalin did. Stalin was the one who brought russia to the modern age just like how Mao found the new China.

Stalin a good leader????????????????

even to a old (well not THAT old...) leftye like me that's BS. The Ironman himself was responsible of most of the soviet missconducts and wrong turns...tough we finns have this saying...Stalin was the greatest Finn-friend of all the russian leaders...becouse he shot all the good officers and military planners thus helped us win in the winterwar...

Gollevainen said:

Stalin a good leader????????????????

even to a old (well not THAT old...) leftye like me that's BS. The Ironman himself was responsible of most of the soviet missconducts and wrong turns...tough we finns have this saying...Stalin was the greatest Finn-friend of all the russian leaders...becouse he shot all the good officers and military planners thus helped us win in the winterwar...

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Why do all you people look at the negitive sides?! espicially when there are more positives than negetives, like the cultural revolution, thats just a mistake of Mao but Mao did so much more good for China than bad, same with Josef Stalin, he brought more good to Russia than bad, you people always have to pick out all te nifty crap just to make the person look bad.

stalin??...naww....i aint gonna admire sumbody who killed millions of ppl

Not Stalin definitely. Sure he built USSR up. Sure he won the war.(Not that Trotsky would not have done so)
But he used his people too dam harsh and killed them. I don't care if he thinks that he is being ambushed, he killed them!!!
And last, he ****** Communism, he ****** Lenin's dream.
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OK, my choice of all those was the Rs, especially TR.
Sure, JFK shot for the Moon. Sure he dealt with he got Cuba off. (But man, kruschev........) Eisenhower, sure, he got through WW2, the interstate freeway. Wilson was peaceful.(Well, he's one of the best I'll say, but not good enough to hit #1) Carter actually ruined quite much for constructing... Reagen.....lowered taxes, talked, but not good enough.
The Roosevelts were good presidents, they passed bills, erased the unreasonable, inobjective, and helped America build up.
And Theodore, he was verrry patriotic, and also knew when to do what. (Yes, serving a land is important, but it does not mean you do not spend time with your son.)

Too bad Sun Yet-Sen and Lenin aren't on the list.
Sun was the one who raised China out of poverty and be recognized again.
Lenin was the man who tried for true Communism. (Stalin, his stuff was politics than reality, and it stained everyone behind)
If they were on the list, I'd pick them.