Thank you for everything, Joseph <3
I have seen many interesting input from various anons on Stalin here, whether in the form of opinions, books, documentaries etc. They happen sporadically, scattered on different threads which rarely have anything to do with Stalin, ML or USSR. I figured a Stalin General Thread would be useful. A place where to share all things Stalin and discuss all things Stalin.
Though I am pro-Stalin, this is not a strictly Stalin-worship thread. Posts critical of Stalin too are welcome. I simply request that they are in good faith, and not just 'muh ML' trolls.
59 posts and 9 image replies omitted.>>2353112Not even we in Greece hold that narrative, at least amongst the communists.
We made military-strategic blunders, and should have gone with guerrilla warfare, but anyhow ..
>>2351285even if one would side with them theoretically, and even disagree with the principle of democratic centralism, how could it possibly be justifiable to try to destabilize the USSR just on the eve of a genocidal war of extermination?
were they delusional, evil or retarded?
I assume they were committed to the broader cause of liberation, and even had some patriotic inclinations, so how did they justify sabotaging the country right before a total war, all over a party politics power game?
>>2351356Some of the shit you find on wikipedia is really funny though, like this absolute kino scene straight out of a movie:
>Other defendants apparently still hoped for clemency. Yagoda, who had overseen the interrogations that led to the previous show trials, made a plea for mercy directly to Stalin, who may, according to Solzhenitsyn, have been observing the proceedings:
>Just as though Stalin had been sitting right there in the hall, Yagoda confidently and insistently begged him directly for mercy: "I appeal to you! For you I built two great canals!" And a witness reports that at just that moment a match flared in the shadows behind a window on the second floor of the hall, apparently behind a muslin curtain, and, while it lasted, the outline of a pipe could be seen. >>2354309>I appeal to you! For you I built two great canals!Wrong. Workers built them.
To the gallows.
>>2354315pic related
>>2354309>at just that moment a match flared in the shadows behind a window on the second floor of the hall, apparently behind a muslin curtain, and, while it lasted, the outline of a pipe could be seen.This literally sounds like Aragorn's introduction in the first Lord of the Rings movie when he's sitting in the back of the tavern smoking his pipe
>>2356025no proofs, baseless atrocity propaganda
if things came out differently and it buhharin won the power struggle, and stalin was the one who got shot, left anticommunists in the west would be crying and shitting themselves about how evil totalitarian right-deviationist USSR killed lenin's protege the wonderful georgian
this the real purpose of this game, they pretend to care about these theoretical minutae, but actual point is to make real existing socialism look evil and retarded, while maintaining a holier than thou "real principled socialist" pretense, eg orwell's co-option of leon "let's invade poland" trotsky
>>2356042MLs literally can't tell the material difference between Stalin's and post-Stalin USSR aside from the great man in charge that's why most of them folded and supported the USSR bureaucracy until it dissolved the union (see Parenti)
Nice self own
>>2356077MLs understand the difference better than anybody else
you morons just go with "muh bureaucracy"
>>2356156western marxists are not marxists
They are anti-marxists with a human face
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