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You Don't Mess Around With Comrade Stalin 🔻During the GPW, the troops under the command of Bagramyan were the first to reach the Baltic Sea. To present this event with more pomp, the general personally filled a bottle with water from the Baltic Sea and ordered his aide to fly to Moscow with this bottle. 🔻However, while he was flying, the Germans counterattacked and pushed Bagramyan away from the Baltic coast. By the time the aide arrived in Moscow, they had already been aware of this. And so, the proud aide entered Stalin's office and grandly proclaimed: "Comrade Stalin, General Bagramyan sends you water from the Baltic!" 🔻Stalin took the bottle, turned it over in his hands for a few seconds, then gave it back to the aide and said: "Give it back to Bagramyan, tell him to pour it back where he took it from." 🔻General Baghramyan carried out the order only two months later and poured the water into the same place. #RussianMilitary #WW2 #brief_and_interesting 😎RCR | Support |Boost