Tfw you turn a land of illiterate peasants into a spacefaring nuclear superpower

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He destroyed any chance for communism more effectively than the right ever could have.

t. the left-of-capital

fuck off. No matter how hard you try,
the moment you truly threaten capitalism, you will be smeared as a "Stalinist."
This isn't a sign to abandon Stalin, but to recognize how deeply he struck fear into the hearts of the bourgeoisie and to seek to live up to his example.

read Marx, read Engels, read Lenin

Stalin was a bit of a cunt and petty bully who got a kick out of violence. A product of his environment, being a communist in Tsarist Russia was tough.

Not too much of an egomaniac by autocrat standards, but the cult did go to his head on the odd occasion.

Lysenkoism, Barbarossa, 1932 etc. etc. this guy did some dumb fucking shit. Was there going to be a shortage of harvest regardless of the Soviet's government's actions? Of course. Were the Soviet armed forces going to take a beating in '41 no matter how hard they fought? For sure. Doesn't change the fact the cult of paranoia that Stalin (helped, not single-handedly) fostered exaggerated the effects.

Still, what idiot could deny a revolution in cruel conditions demands a cruel authority? It is seriously difficult to see how the USSR could have remained an independent entity without the insanity of the Stalin cult. He wasn't the most consistent Marxist, the kindest man, or the most brilliant strategist. The USSR didn't transcend wage-labor, guarantee anything more than a bearable, boring standard of living, or live up to it's "anti-imperialist" credentials Stalin kiddies assign to it. But it did shake up the whole course of human development by butchering fascist trash, causing more bourgeois asspain than any other state in history, and, perhaps most importantly, spreading Marxist ideas over half the globe.

Too bad the last part goes ignored because Western dumbfucks here still think revolution is coming from their beloved megareactionary states like the US or UK.

Lysenko was supported because he led the opposition against eugenics. All the scientists who fled to the USA bitching about Lysenkoism were eugenicists who got purged/defunded after Stalin determined that eugenics was bourgeois.

Proof that centrally planned capitalism really works!

Seriously, the only thing he did was catch up on the decade of development Russia missed out on due to the Revolution.

nah it was a backwards shithole that was getting its shit wrecked in WWI

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Russia was a shithole before the Bolsheviks.

YES

Amazing isn't it.

This user says the truth.

tsarist russia was a great power only because of scale of country and armed forces, in every other measure they were extremely backward
much like modern russia amusingly

When you
But it's ok because 20 years after you die a dog and man go to space

The best and worst leader Russia ever had.

Nice anticommunist smears. You're doing the work of the CIA spreading those lies. Read Parenti.

They did the revolution becouse the past capitalist sistem(zar) was not working

They did the revolution becouse the past capitalist sistem with the zar was not working if you are a rich country you dont do the communist revolution and you cant denile that communism made a great work in modernizing russia

This triggers the tanks.

Really made me think.

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