What the fuck was his problem?

What the fuck was his problem?

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On the death of his first wife in 1908

j/k it doesn't really work like that outside of fiction, he was just seriously deranged

I've only recently started studying Soviet history seriously, and it's weird. Stalin for a long period wasn't really as cold and as brutal as he grew later. During the first period against the Worker's opposition and the first period of the Trotskyists faction, Zinoviev seems like way more of a dick than Stalin is. He sometimes defended expulsion and arrest of the opposition while Stalin still wanted them to be in government, but submissive. And during the later part of the conflict, when Zinoviev sided with Trotsky, Trotsky for a period still believe that Bukhanin was a biggest threat for the revolution than Stalin was, and he judged Stalin and the rest of the Center (and the Right) as unconsciously counter-revolutionary, more like people who took part in the Thermidor than Bonaparte himself.

So idk. The whole "he was just crazy/a psycho" theory doesn't seem sustainable. If he was just hungry for power for the sake of power, he had opportunities to seize it before he did.

Opportunism. He had the chance to make a lot of power for himself, and it was just that coupled with the standard east European 1900s feelings of not caring that much for life.

He was abused by his alcoholic father.

He was a pissy faggot.

Some may say too good looking for his own damn good

always the fucking chads

Crazy man

Who?

he meant Bukharin

That's not a real photo though. Not only did Stalin have a habit of editing them, but I'm pretty sure that picture is an actor.

He did almost everything right and you should thank him for defeating the nazis

t. reddit historian

Ehh… I don't know, the progression is decently convincing,

People love to talk about how good looking he is in Poet but that Lover pic is much better imo

The more clean-shaven commissar looks best to me. That cap just makes it better…

An evil person who killed 60 million people. An abomination.

t. /marx/

found the tankie

he was a russian nationalist that killed 60 million in his genocide, and rebuilt feudalism so he could become a part of the ruling aristocracy, after it was torn down by Lenin.


:^)

smh tbh fam

hey man that's uncalled for

Bog standard megalomania. Same as many CEOs today.

His wife died.

What do you think about the work of the Soviet "Revisionist" historiography such as Arch Getty?

Pretty much saved the world and stamped out the not socialists permanently. Why he is so hated by the left compared to Mao I do not know.

He cared too much.

the system around him, he did some good work tho but heres the most recent thing iv seen on the man

youtube.com/watch?v=Z9voDV_ZsB8

because Mao was chinese

The only basis for his power was a network of assassins and military power
If the only tool you have is a hammer

Raped by drunk daddy 2-5 times a month when he was 10-15

He died too soon.

this is wrong. Unlike a certain contemporary German dictator, Stalin did not occupy an extra-legal place in the Soviet state. He sat at the apex of a pyramid of committees (both party and state) that had been built up and tempered over the previous two decades. Importantly, this was a structure that existed independently of him: as important a role as he played, the General Secretary could be replaced. In the event of his death the committees, at all levels, would continue to function… even with collegiate leadership, as in the NEP and post-Stalin years*. Collective government was not alien to the USSR.

And these committees were comprised of a strong set of administrators. Stalin tended to dive into the details of specific campaigns (whether the front or grain collection) but was otherwise content to delegate to the governing team of technocrats. This 'Team Stalin' were tough administrators who had been hardened and tested during the 1930s (eg Molotov, Kaganovich, Khrushchev, Malenkov). They, and the rest of the party leadership, were loyal not just to Stalin personally but also his programme of industrialisation and, obviously, resisting the invaders. To state the obvious: this group was unlikely to fracture into in-fighting in the middle of a war of extermination.

Stalin might have provided the policy direction and subsequent stamp of approval but these were the men who ran the USSR, with relative freedom within their spheres. This was reinforced by the war: the strains of the invasion led Moscow to relax its control over much of the civilian sector, delegating significant powers to local party bodies. Stalin had control over general policy but everything did not go through him unless he specifically requested it.

Being underrated, tbh

Being slandered and underrated, tbh

Not enough Gulaging tbh

Original brocialist. :^)

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You all are, you anarchist scums, at the origin of my new idea of game : Comecon GU!(lag). You'll have a number of NKVD agent and while walking down streets, trots, revisionists, nazi and so on will spawn, you'll send your NKVD commie proles on them to stop them ruinning the glorious rivolution, then afterward you'll have to put them in gulag stops for a long time and then retake them as glorious political reiducation have turn them into NKVD comrades.

Bureaucracy and revisionists trying to wrest power from the workers.

You do the same for men, though.

sorry if you are not the femiDalek

I'm trying to fix it but I can't find the right font.

It looks like comic sans but it isn't

Copy paste and s from somewhere else?

It's Comic Sans MS, I used gimp to make it

It's comic sans you damn oaf. I mean what is EVEN the deal with you you incompetent sack of shit.

pirate is clearly the best

I believe in you.

Seriously? Read about the Holodomor.

You mean the "hold the door" ?

Meaning the Russian Empire was always susceptible to famine and poor nutrition, and once the mechanization and modernization of agriculture occurred under Soviet rule, this was no longer an issue. Compare it to modern day countries which still have rampant hunger problems.

Funny how that happens with 30 million fewer mouths to feed.

Citation needed

I didn't recognize you mighty statistician of Idontknowhowtocountology department !

And here we see Stalin talking to Lenin on his deathbed.

He did

Comic Sans MS, point 26, Gimp 2 is the program

Oh yeah

I tried making it bold and kept messing with the point size but no matter what I did it still looked slightly off.


I was using preview.

You da real mvp

Do you mind if I post the fixed version on my page?

Post it wherever you want. Memes should belong to everyone, comrade.

I most definitely agree