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Lotsa libs around here need this form, they won't sign it, but they should (lemmy.ml)
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[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Demystifying Stalin

I know that after my death a pile of rubbish will be heaped on my grave, but the wind of History will sooner or later sweep it away without mercy.

  • J. V. Stalin
  1. Nia Frome's "Tankies"

[8 min]

  1. W. E. B Dubois' On Stalin

[6 min]

  1. Domenico Losurdo's Primitive Thinking and Stalin as Scapegoat

[30 min]

  1. Domenico Losurdo's Stalin and Stalinism in History

[16 min]

  1. J. V. Stalin interviewed by H. G. Wells

[42 min]

  1. J. V. Stalin interviewed by Emil Ludwig

[38 min]

  1. J. V. Stalin interviewed by Roy Howard

[9 min]

  1. Domenico Losurdo's Stalin: The History and Critique of a Black Legend

[5 hr 51 min]

  1. Ludo Martens' Another View of Stalin

[5 hr 25 min]

  1. Anna Louise Strong's This Soviet World

Stalin's Major Theoretical Contributions to Marxism

I have come to communism because of daddy Stalin and nobody must come and tell me that I mustn’t read Stalin. I read him when it was very bad to read him. That was another time. And because I’m not very bright, and a hard-headed person, I keep on reading him. Especially in this new period, now that it is worse to read him. Then, as well as now, I still find a Seri of things that are very good.

  • Che Guevara

  1. Economic Problems of Socialism in the USSR

  2. Dialectical and Historical Materialism

  3. History of the CPSU (B)

  4. The Foundations of Leninism

  5. Marxism and the National Question

[–] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 14 points 3 days ago

--I got my political education from Reddit

-I am mad Axis Finland didn't win the war

-The winds of history are scouring the pile of garbage from Stalin's grave and some of the garbage just whipped me in the eye ow ow ow

[–] TheFriendlyDickhead@feddit.org 7 points 3 days ago

Based

[–] plandeka@lemmy.world -5 points 3 days ago (4 children)

I encourage you to go to Russia and check yourself, maybe ask a few Russians. Hopefully you end up on the frontline pretty fast and stop posting shit like this.

Or at least maybe go to some post-soviet country and ask the elderly how great it was under the communism. Those who survived it of course.

[–] Amnesigenic@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I encourage you to take your own advice and find out how completely wrong you are

[–] plandeka@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

thankfully I do not have cause I actually am an eastern european.

[–] Amnesigenic@lemmy.ml 1 points 19 hours ago

Try talking to anyone who was actually alive to remember the soviet union

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

The majority of those who lived in the USSR want it back, especially Russians. Further, 63,000 new KPRF members over the last 4 years, a huge wave of soviet pride with over 1 million celebrating the Immortal Regiment, and more.

The Russian people long for the return of socialism. This number is higher among the elderly. Please stop inventing fantasy to match your narrative, it's deeply unserious behavior.

[–] plandeka@lemmy.world -1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Unserious are your source choices my man, everyone can invent their own truth. Not much more to say tbh.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago

What on Earth are you talking about? This is publicly available knowledge from numerous sources.

[–] tyra@lemmy.ml 15 points 3 days ago

You mean the elders that to a huge portion miss the USSR, because they found out that the West fucked them over with their propaganda and now they have no healthcare or housing? Sure.

[–] bubblybubbles@lemmy.ml 10 points 3 days ago

ha ha classic .world lib thought-terminating cliche response, JuSt gO ThERe

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 0 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (3 children)

The gulag didn't happen.
And if it did, it wasn't that bad.
And if it was, that's not a big deal.
And if it is, that's not his fault.
And if it was, he didn't mean it.
And if he did, the victims deserved it.

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 13 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It obviously did happen. Most of the prisoners were common criminals, while 1/4–1/3 were political prisoners, like those who sided with and/or fought for Tsar Nicholas II.

What didn’t happen was The Gulag Archipelago, a work of fiction by an anti-communist & anti-Semite[1][2].

During the WWII Nazi invasion, the fatality rate was high, but still lower than in Tsarist Russia. And it wasn’t a life sentence for most. Most people served their term and were released, like almost any other prison system.

The system ended in 1960, while forced prison labor is still enshrined in the US constitution and still happening today.

[–] Amnesigenic@lemmy.ml 9 points 3 days ago

Better than the current US prison system by a wide margin

[–] bubblybubbles@lemmy.ml 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Yet another wonderful .world lib response!