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-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
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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
- Nia Frome's "Tankies"
[8 min]
- W. E. B Dubois' On Stalin
[6 min]
- Domenico Losurdo's Primitive Thinking and Stalin as Scapegoat
[30 min]
- Domenico Losurdo's Stalin and Stalinism in History
[16 min]
[42 min]
[38 min]
[9 min]
- Domenico Losurdo's Stalin: The History and Critique of a Black Legend
[5 hr 51 min]
- Ludo Martens' Another View of Stalin
[5 hr 25 min]
- 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
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.
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.
Better than the current US prison system by a wide margin
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