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Stalin read Mein Kampf from cover to cover and figured out that the main goal Hitler
set for Germany’s future was not lands in the east, mentioned in only one phrase in the book,
but in liberating Germany from the chains of the Versailles Treaty. Hitler made enemies
within and outside Germany. Internal enemies were the Jews. Outside enemies were the
French, and the Jews.
Stalin’s tactic relied on doing everything with someone else’s hands, eliminating one
enemy with the hands of the other. “Stalin always found monkeys, who brought him nuts
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from the hottest fire.” is was said by Robert Conquest. “Nobody could make his com-
petitors knock heads like Stalin, always staying on the side and coming out superior to all.”
is was noted by A. Antonov-Ovseenko. To this, one must add that Stalin was the most
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ardent perpetrator of Lenin’s mission: to “create a Communist society with the hands of our
enemies.” 5
Only once we understand Stalin’s methods can we understand why Stalin liked the
Munich dreamer and his book so much. e answer can be found in Hitler’s book, Chapter
XIII: “We must take every point of the Versailles Treaty separately, and systematically make
it clear to the broadest masses of the population. We must achieve an understanding among
60 million German men, women, and children, and make them feel the shame of this treaty.
We must make these 60 million have a deep hatred for this treaty, so that their scorching
hatred brings the will of the people together and evokes a cry in unison: GIVE US BACK
OUR ARMS!”
at is precisely what Lenin dreamed of: “that someone would emerge, who would
raise a struggle against the Versailles Treaty.” is someone did emerge. Adolf Hitler raised
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a struggle against the Versailles Treaty, and against France. He demanded arms. Stalin put a
sword in his hands. e link between the contents of Mein Kampf and Stalin’s support for
Hitler becomes clearer. e proclamation about lands in the east did not scare Stalin. Mein
Kampf is against France, as can be read in Part 2, Chapter XIII: “We must understand the fol-
lowing to the end: Germany’s most evil enemy is and will always be France.” Also: “ e task
of the day for us is not the struggle for world hegemony. . . . France systematically tears apart
our people and according to her plans strangles our independence. . . . We simultaneously
hear protests and slogans against five or even ten different countries, and meanwhile forget
that first of all we need to concentrate all our physical strength and mental powers to deliver
a blow to the heart of our vilest enemy. . . . France will inevitably strive to make Germany
into a weak and crushed nation. . . . At the current moment, our only enemy is France—that
nation, which deprives us of our rightful existence.” Further in the book, Hitler continues in
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the same spirit for many pages and chapters.
Lands in the east were not his immediate task, only a perspective for centuries to come.
is opinion was adhered to not only by Hitler, but by all his immediate entourage: “Land
must be taken not in Africa, but in Europe, before all in the East. is is the natural course
for Germany’s geopolitical development in the coming centuries.” Defeating France, on the
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other hand, was Hitler’s immediate task. Before taking lands in the east, Hitler needed to se-
cure himself from his mortal enemy. Here is the second reason for Stalin’s love of Mein Kampf
and its author. Stalin knew that France was not only Hitler’s main enemy, but it was a mortal
enemy. Stalin understood that if Hitler tried to free Germany from France’s economic slavery
and from the Versailles Treaty, Britain would immediately interfere, because France imposed