Opinion of Joseph Stalin

[Liminal Trans Girl]

Obvious HP is obvious

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

Clear HP overall, though the mistakes he made were unfortunately quite in the mainstream of the party at the time.

[H.E. VOLODYMYR ZELENKSYY]

Not a fan, personally.

[President Johnson]

A vile and depraved monster. How is that even a question?

[TDAS04]

The bad Unlce Joe.

[Dr. MB]

Betrayer of the revolution

[Hindsight was 2020]

There is like only one poster here who wouldn’t say HP

[PSOL]

For the purposes of this poll, I have to vote FF.

A seriously overlooked aspect of Stalin’s tenure has been in putting into place a plan more so similar to the proposals of the Wilson administration after WWI. Arguably, the lack of war among Central and Eastern European states relative to Yugoslavia shows that something was indeed working according to a bourgeoisie standpoint.

[wnwnwn]

His body count is overestimated by conservative, but still lean HP.

[Progressive Pessimist]

Horrible person, but one of my favorite historical figures when it comes to how interesting I find him.

[oldtimer]

Horrible person, but one of my favorite historical figures when it comes to how interesting I find him.

There's nothing mysterious about him.

He was a gangster who by luck came to power and used his gangster experience to remain in power, he also copied the Tsarist policies to an extreme.

Think Al Capone as President, or any villain from a Western (which is why he liked those films, the characters reminded him of his younger years).

His major mistake was thinking that Hitler was just another gangster like him.

[Hindsight was 2020]

There is like only one poster here who wouldn’t say HP

Like freaking clockwork

For the purposes of this poll, I have to vote FF.

A seriously overlooked aspect of Stalin’s tenure has been in putting into place a plan more so similar to the proposals of the Wilson administration after WWI. Arguably, the lack of war among Central and Eastern European states relative to Yugoslavia shows that something was indeed working according to a bourgeoisie standpoint.

Yeah dude one of the worst mass murders in human history is a FF 😐

[PSOL]

Horrible person, but one of my favorite historical figures when it comes to how interesting I find him.

There's nothing mysterious about him.

He was a gangster who by luck came to power and used his gangster experience to remain in power, he also copied the Tsarist policies to an extreme.

Think Al Capone as President, or any villain from a Western (which is why he liked those films, the characters reminded him of his younger years).

His major mistake was thinking that Hitler was just another gangster like him.

Stalin was immensely more competent than that and could seriously read the room well. His organizational ability and success in navigating the political scene of the CPSU knows no bounds, as is lasting so long through his foreign policy.

A major fault of left wing movements is that they do kind of cream over any borderline ethnic person when they agree with them. Stalin was that minority and he knew he could rise through the ranks by saying what many conservative Russians in the party believed in. Stalin’s one mistake was realizing that he was still an ethnic person leading over a communist party, and that non-leftists seriously hate that and would seek to destroy such a thing ASAP.

There is like only one poster here who wouldn’t say HP

Like freaking clockwork

For the purposes of this poll, I have to vote FF.

A seriously overlooked aspect of Stalin’s tenure has been in putting into place a plan more so similar to the proposals of the Wilson administration after WWI. Arguably, the lack of war among Central and Eastern European states relative to Yugoslavia shows that something was indeed working according to a bourgeoisie standpoint.

Yeah dude one of the worst mass murders in human history is a FF 😐

For the purposes of the poll, it is necessary to bring an outside perspective and look at the other hand y’know. Look at the total peace in most of the Eastern European countries when such a thing was unthinkable in the 1920s.

[Liminal Trans Girl]

A vile and depraved monster. How is that even a question?

PSOL was defending him again

[PSOL]

A vile and depraved monster. How is that even a question?

PSOL was defending him again

Again, none of you are seriously engaging my responses.

[Hindsight was 2020]

A vile and depraved monster. How is that even a question?

PSOL was defending him again

Again, none of you are seriously engaging my responses.

Because it’s tankie nonsense to downplay one of biggest pos mass murders in human history?

[PSOL]

A vile and depraved monster. How is that even a question?

PSOL was defending him again

Again, none of you are seriously engaging my responses.

Because it’s tankie nonsense to downplay one of biggest pos mass murders in human history?

Pure knee jerk rejection, not an accurate take in sight.

[Hindsight was 2020]

A vile and depraved monster. How is that even a question?

PSOL was defending him again

Again, none of you are seriously engaging my responses.

Because it’s tankie nonsense to downplay one of biggest pos mass murders in human history?

Pure knee jerk rejection, not an accurate take in sight.

Okay fine if you want something here it is. Stalin took an event you deem to be the greatest event in human history (the Russian Revolution) and made all about a personality cult centered on himself. He killed men (and even their families) who stood with Lenin during the revolution to consolidate power, he teamed up with Hitler to craved up neutral countries and his own daughter has quoted him bemoaning the fact that he had to fight Hitler over ruling over Europe together. He beat his first wife, emotionally abused the second one into suicide, drove his first son to a failed suicide attempt to which he reacted “the idiot can’t even shoot straight”. Knocked up a 14 year old while he in his 30’s and put an open pedo as the head of his secret police. This is isn’t covering the mainstream stuff people would say he’s bad for (mass murder, purges, Holdmor, big brother authoritarian regime, etc.) So please say why we should engage in these lazy attempts on your behalf to praise him?

[Progressive Pessimist]

Horrible person, but one of my favorite historical figures when it comes to how interesting I find him.

There's nothing mysterious about him.

He was a gangster who by luck came to power and used his gangster experience to remain in power, he also copied the Tsarist policies to an extreme.

Think Al Capone as President, or any villain from a Western (which is why he liked those films, the characters reminded him of his younger years).

His major mistake was thinking that Hitler was just another gangster like him.

I look at him like I do a really compelling antagonist in a movie, book, or TV show. He doesn't necessarily need to be mysterious to be intriguing to me.

[GeneralMacArthur]

 > Opinion of the Mount Toba supereruption, which killed most life on earth and reduced the human population to a few thousand people









 > for the purposes of this poll i have to say ff

[PSOL]

Yawn, got anything better to say.

[Fuzzy Bear Loves Christian Missionaries]

Horrible person, but one of my favorite historical figures when it comes to how interesting I find him.

There's nothing mysterious about him.

He was a gangster who by luck came to power and used his gangster experience to remain in power, he also copied the Tsarist policies to an extreme.

Think Al Capone as President, or any villain from a Western (which is why he liked those films, the characters reminded him of his younger years).

His major mistake was thinking that Hitler was just another gangster like him.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn once wrote in one of his books that the only person Stalin ever trusted was Adolf Hitler.

The comparison of Hitler and Stalin is one of whether it is more evil to butcher people out of ethnic hatreds and ideas of your own ethnicity's superiority, or if you butcher people for purely political reasons.  Somehow, I fail to see the distinction.  Hitler's murderous rampage was more intense than Stalins and seemed irrational, while Stalin's extended over a greater period of time and seemed more coldly rational.  Either way, millions of innocent people ended up dying horrible deaths.

[GeneralMacArthur]

 > Opinion of printers that refuse to print black and white pages because they're out of cyan ink or some other color you're not even using










 > for the purposes of this poll i have to say ff

[PSOL]

Obviously many of you are brainwashed by the hack writings of Solzhenitsyn, Montefiore, Conquest, and Applebaum. If you read propagandists and fake news promoters you are going to get the facts wrong.

[Hindsight was 2020]

Obviously many of you are brainwashed by the hack writings of Solzhenitsyn, Montefiore, Conquest, and Applebaum. If you read propagandists and fake news promoters you are going to get the facts wrong.

You notice that tankies like PSOL sound indistinguishable from fascist?