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What is your opinion of Joseph Stalin? (lemm.ee)

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I believe in socialism, but I feel Stalin shouldn't be idolised due to things like the Gulag.

I would like more people to become socialist, but I feel not condemning Stalin doesn't help the cause.

I've tried to have a constructieve conversation about this, but I basically get angry comments calling me stupid for believing he did atrocious things.

That's not how you win someone over.

I struggle to believe the Gulag etc. Never happened, and if it happened I firmly believe Stalin should be condemned.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (3 children)

He killed communists and became the poster boy of red scare, hurting the progress of socialism by decades

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

He had a really big spoon.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (2 children)

he was s power hungry megalomaniac that felt no shame in killing anyone who crossed him

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The man tried to resign four times. It always was denied.

Trotsky and Bukharin constantly crossed him and he let them until hey tried to murder him. Hell, he defended Bukharin even then.

In short you are off by several universes.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

highly recommend reading Losurdo's Stalin: History and Critique of a Black Legend. it's a very good historiography of stalin which dispels a lot of the western-propagated myths about his rule and the guy himself.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

stalin was a good guy who was doing his best

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