Hmm. Actually Gandhi supporters used a lot of violence which he officially deplored.
Fabricated slaughter of Czarist officers????
Read about "The Great Purge", yeh, and ask Yuri while your at it. Anyone who had any connection to the "Old Guard" in the military, and politically was rounded up and slaughtered.
This included very competent professional soldiers that were still serving La Rodina during Stalin's reign. However he couldn't trust any of these people.
You must recall, Stalin wasn't a "Great Russian", he was from the Caucuses, and had a natural mistrust of the ruling ethnic group in the Russian empire, in addition to having a reputation as a bully and a brute in his youth.
You liberals don't know this, but the Russians had very good intelligence during WW II because they had such a wide variety of "human resources" in their Empire, as well as an extensive network due to the migration of people to and from the Soviet Union around Europe and the world.
Stalin was given plenty of warning from at least 3 or 4 different sources about Operation Barbarossa. He thought the massive buildup on his border was merely a feignt, and that the real goal was Operation Sea Lion, the invasion of England, which was canceled for various reasons.
His state of denial was so bad, that he refused to believe the warnings, and even refused to believe that an invasion was already in progress until after the Germans were no less than 50 miles inside Soviet territory kicking ass, and taking serious names.
The reason he was in such a state of denial was because in his mind, he was not ready for war with Germany (which he knew was inevitable) in the summer of 1941.
Afterall, he had just spent the pre war years murdering anyone and everyone who had ties to the Czarist regime, and wanted to totally rebuild the Red Army with people who were loyal to him and the Communist party above everything else.
Now when Barbarossa began, the Soviet Union and Germany had been in a "non aggression" pact where they split up Poland and parts of Eastern Euroupe. The Soviets were even shipping raw materials to buy off the Germans. This was all a part of the plan to buy time for the inevitable showdown between the two neighboring powers.
But like I said, Stalin was in denial, because Barbarossa didn't fit his timeline. Afterall, his Army was poorly led, because he spent the past decade butchering all the professional officers, and replaced them with inept apparatchiks.
As for Ghandi, yeh Ghandi stirred up anarchy and chaos for the British, and the Japanese were eager to exploit this.
The Japanese had they been successful in taking over India would have given the Hindus the same treatment of all the other people they ruled over. So Ghandi was largely overrated as another MLK.
