I can't take seriously people who use the term "tankie". If you mean Stalinist, say Stalinist. Most of the time these people are creating a dishonest almagam of Stalinism and all Marxism. Genuine Marxism, that is Trotskyism, stood against Stalinist political distortions and resulting degradation of the Soviet Union. Many people, including Trotsky himself, paid the ultimate price for their faithful defence of the ideals of the Russian Revolution and Soviet democracy. By any measure, Stalin was a mass murderer.
Stalin forsook the program of world revolution in favor of the nationalist program of socialism in one country. His policies were disastrous and lead to famine that claimed the lives of millions of Soviet citizens in the period of the early 1930s, throughout the entire Soviet Union. There is no evidence that this was an intentional policy of genocide. The so-called "Holodomor" is a fabrication of Ukranian nationalists meant to justify their participation in the Nazi's genocidal war of destruction against the whole Slavic people.
I can't take seriously people who use the term "tankie". If you mean Stalinist, say Stalinist. Most of the time these people are creating a dishonest almagam of Stalinism and all Marxism. Genuine Marxism, that is Trotskyism, stood against Stalinist political distortions and resulting degradation of the Soviet Union. Many people, including Trotsky himself, paid the ultimate price for their faithful defence of the ideals of the Russian Revolution and Soviet democracy. By any measure, Stalin was a mass murderer.
Stalin forsook the program of world revolution in favor of the nationalist program of socialism in one country. His policies were disastrous and lead to famine that claimed the lives of millions of Soviet citizens in the period of the early 1930s, throughout the entire Soviet Union. There is no evidence that this was an intentional policy of genocide. The so-called "Holodomor" is a fabrication of Ukranian nationalists meant to justify their participation in the Nazi's genocidal war of destruction against the whole Slavic people.