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Doe posted...

i think he probably wasn't AS BAD as they say, because of how cold war propaganda was. it's hard not to reevaluate people like him a little when every GOP chud calls anyone with a semblance of good policy ideas "left of Lenin"

there is plenty of western propaganda that labels him a bumbling idiot which is obviously not true. he was absolutely ruthless and evil though. he was a communist true believer and through that lens justified everything as a step towards an idealistic future. he was absolutely responsible for enslaving millions of 'collective farmers' and he was absolutely responsible for planned famines that killed millions, and this was before the war.

during ww2 stalin's organizational skills were the single biggest factor in the defeat of the nazi armies, but his willingness to sacrifice millions of soldiers and civilians without a care was a part of that too. he is every bit one of the biggest monsters in history, he just happened to share a timeline with hitler who was more overtly evil.