Stalin - the Real "Carcharoth"

J.R.R. Tolkien's Carcharoth ("The Red Maw" in the Sindarin tongue) appears, among other places, in The Silmarillion. Red Maw appears to be a rather good name to describe the most terrible man who ever lived, responsible for the deaths of tens of millions of people and toil of further hundreds of millions. Also, he was "The Big Red" of his day (nowadays I believe Obama has taken over that title). Soon, on the 9th of May, the big Red Square celebrations of the defeat of Nazi Germany and end of WWII will take place in Moscow. It will surely be a stupendous occasion. However, we all need to have a think about our history when the thousands of soldiers march under that gigantic portrait of Uncle Joe, the Red Star shining on his cap as always.

Don't forget the hundreds of millions.