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Let's Talk About Stalin
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here's a post from another thread about our favorite man of steel to keep the ball rolling:
Scrree posted:i did not mean to say that all of western academia is entirely anti-communist. There are a number of western scholars that analyse their sources carefully and report the truth of the incredible success of the socialist experiment. This is true.
but those scholars do not determine the popular narrative. Which is defined by drivel like Bloodlands and works of anti-communists like George Orwell. The 'totalitarianism' argument and overt push to compare and equalize Stalin and Hitler in every way has lead most Americans to believe that the government that ended the holocaust is 'just as bad' as the one that started it.
and redeeming does 'matter' because, as evidenced by the PSL thread on SA where a Russian expat has spent incredible energy blithering about anarchism and the holodomor, anti-coms love to bring him up even more than I do, and thats saying a lot!! disinfo about the history of actually existing socialism is what leads potentailly radical people to those dead-end 'love the theory, hate the practice' ideologies like anarchism or democratic socialism
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conec posted:gas this shit.
Panopticon posted:why did stalin have a bunch of economists shot in the leningrad affair
To get to the other side
Panopticon posted:why did stalin have a bunch of economists shot in the leningrad affair
my bro what kind of just society isn't shooting economists
Panopticon posted:but they helped fight off the nazis
I think you misread that.. it says here they helped beat off the nazis
in the context of letters and orders by the soviet politburo during the Ezhovshchina, english scholars of soviet history have traditionally translated the word Limity, meaning limits, to the english word Quota
Keven posted:Stalin
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conec posted:ever heard of Lenin?
you mean the feminist theory from sheryl sandberg?
Use the CC button at the bottom. there's a higher quality version on youtube but it doesnt have the subs.
the american wars of imperialism can be opposed without even mentioning the ussr, let alone defending the injustices committed inside it
Panopticon posted:i believe in justice, and the ussr under stalin was an unjust system which lacked democracy and rule of law.
citation needed
swampman posted:Panopticon posted:i believe in justice, and the ussr under stalin was an unjust system which lacked democracy and rule of law.
citation needed
the forsaken: an american tragedy in stalin's russia, tim tzouliadis