Why do you guys like Stalin so much?

Stalin was a fucking retard in the way he handled WW2.

Where'd they go?

Nobody knows.

Heh. That was just a warmup, kid. Dubs–NOW.

Not a fan myself, but I suspect tankies like him for getting shit done (crushing the nazis, seizing much of Eastern Europe in the name of communism, collectivizing agriculture, massive economic growth through industrialization, setting up space programs). The fact that the USSR did all these things under him gives many people the impression that Stalin was one of the greatest socialists, and that the immense human costs of his regime were necessary casualties. (Or that the victims deserved it / didn't exist).

c'mon now
next you'll say leftypol likes Hoxha

But we do like Hoxha. Not seriously, but he's arguably the most memeworthy communist ever.

nice try, boy

how can you not love that sweet stache

The Germans were trying to use Finland as a launching point for the invasion of the USSR. Mannerheim was a vicious anti-com snake and Nazi collaborator and this was more then proven by the fact that Finland joined in Operation Barbarossa.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=9_DQ3IhNH9o

Even the American gov knew this at the time
m.youtube.com/watch?v=N-Q33vF7kVE
Skip to 3:16

don't forget about the hair

Because he did literally nothing wrong.

w-we still have lenin right

brother, a-are you too?

You say that like its a bad thing

Read his works. He had a reason for most things he did

to my shame, yes.

at least you got dubs

Stalin is the defining historical character of real actually existing communism. He was the first significant leader of an actually existing communist society in history as Lenin didn't live that long. Even after he died his legacy defined the communist movement and determined the course of history as the split between revisionists and anti-revisionists occurred leading to the Sino-Soviet split and then the Soviet collapse. This makes him an interesting figure.

As the defining character in the history of communism, he is the prime target of attack by trotskyists, revisionists, fascists, liberals, and other anti-communists. Fascists, lamenting their defeat in the war deny their own atrocities well blaming Stalin for 'killing millions' which is rather hypocritical. Fascists and liberals alike try to attack Stalin to create their own narrative of the second world war.

We don't. The nazbols who are currently raiding us do.

Ok. But he never instituted worker owned means of production. The employer was replaced by the state official. The basic relationship between employer and employee still remained. How is that in any way communist?

Listen to yourself:

Never realized you elected bureaucrats.

Read his papers/letters etc.
He explains what sacrifices he had to make in order to industrialize Russia.