Joseph Stalin was a communist leader inspired by Leon Trotsky
Trotsky was a communist revolutionary and intellectual. He once wrote “In politics, obtaining power and maintaining power justifies anything” in his book “Leur morale et la nôtre”*
In this book, Trotsky justifies the use of lies, infiltration of other political parties, smearing, even hostage taking. He says absolute ruthlesness is necessary to overthrow a hostile system and wield power. He concludes "We are acting for the greater good. We can’t be restrained by normal morality".
Joseph Stalin took Trotsky’s advice literally. So he murdered Trotsky because he saw him as rival. Stalin also started killing people because he believed they could be sympathetic to capitalism or opponents to his power.
Matvei Bronstein: Theorical physicist. Pioneer of quantum gravity. Arrested, accused of fictional “terroristic” activity and shot in 1938
Lev Shubnikov: Experimental physicist. Accused on false charges. Executed
Adrian Piotrovsky: Russian dramaturge. Accused on false charges of treason. Executed.
Nikolai Bukharin: Leader of the Communist revolution. Member of the Politburo. Falsely accused of treason. Executed.
General Alexander Egorov: Marshal of the Soviet Union. Commander of the Red Army Southern Front. Member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party. Arrested, accused on false charges, executed.
General Mikhail Tukhachevsky: Supreme Marshal of the Soviet Union. Nicknamed the Red Napoleon. Arrested, accused on fake charges. Executed.
Grigory Zinoviev:: Communist intellectual. Chairman of the Communist International Movement. Member of the Soviet Politburo. Accused of treason and executed.
Even the secret police themselves were not safe:
Genrikh Yagoda : Right-hand of Joseph Stalin. Head of the NKD Secret Police. He spied on everyone and jailed thousands of innocents. Arrested and executed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genrikh_Yagoda
Nikolai Yezhov : Appointed head of the NKD Secret Police after the killing of Yagoda. Arrested on fake charges. Also executed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai_Yezhov
Everybody was absolutely terrified during this period. At least 500 000 people were murdered. Over 1 million people were deported to Gulags, secret prisons in Siberia, where they worked 12 hours a day.
Joseph Stalin decided to crush Ukraine for resisting communism and supporting independance. In 1933, he seized all Ukraine’s food production including all the bread, the wheat, the cows, the chicken. In the next months, over 5 million Ukrainians were starved to death. The situation was so bad that thousands of people turned to cannibalism. When the Nazis invaded Ukraine, some Ukrainians thought they were saviors
https://cla.umn.edu/chgs/holocaust-genocide-education/resource-guides/holodomor
https://www.history.com/articles/ukrainian-famine-stalin
Hitler was a monster, but we really don’t talk enough about how bad Stalin was.
The Top 5 murderers, ranked.
- Mao
- Stalin,
- Hitler
- King Leopold II (Belgian Congo)
- Tojo
Stalin was a paranoid fucknut and did not care about his son held in a German POW camp. He refused to trade General von Paulus after the Battle of Stalingrad for his own child.
I swear this exact post was made a while ago here
People post shot to multiple communities on multiple instances.
I would argue Maximilien Robespierre did it before him
Hitler was a monster, but we really don’t talk enough about how bad Stalin was
Not only is The Double Genocide Theory a form of soft Holocaust denial, it’s deeply comical to claim “we don’t talk enough about how bad Stalin was”. Yes we fucking do??? American popular code culture has been built on anti-Communism for decades!
Not really, the Soviets were considered Allies. In addition, the USA supplied weapons and materials to the Soviets and the fucks used them against Finland.
Is this post satire?
“Stalin was a communist leader inspired by Leon Trotsky”??? The two were massive rivals with completely different ideologies.
I can hear the Hexbear slop community furiously masturbating at thought of ripping this post to shreds.
As they should, with factual errors this fucking baby-brained
LOL LOL of course a tankie came out for this one.
Any actual notes?
Guys DAE umm… Stalin killed a gorrillion people I know this because my 5th grade teacher told me in history class. And that’s why communism is really bad
THE END /s
Did we finish animal farm today and the teacher told you the Pig = Stalin?
Whenever someone says we have to take control no matter the price and ignore all our previous values and laws you know what is coming next.
I also like murdering every capitalists so you can be the only one. Very Highlander.
Coming to a theatre near you soon!
State Capitalism
There can be only one…
Did he Make The USSR Great Again?
Honestly, the guy was a real jerk.
I see you there P and R ref. Well played!
To put it mildly
You don’t have to be a psychopath to obtain power, but it makes it easier. You do have to be a psychopath to want the power to murder indiscriminately.
Also crazy that he just died from a cerebral hemorrhage at the age of 74. If it weren’t for that, he’d probably have another 20 years in him.
It’s possible he was assassinated.
People forget there was around a dozen actual documented assassination attempts, the first in 1931.
That’s always the problem with being in power, there’s almost certainly someone who wants to get rid of you, but the more paranoid you behave about it the number of people who want you gone increases.
I wouldn’t say that an alcoholic in his 70s who died from cerebral hemorrhaging was assassinated.
Stalin spent the last 15-20 years of his life getting blackout drunk every single night. He also forced all of his top ministers and generals to join him in this drunkenness.
The full story is wild.
Then when Stalin died, everyone sort of knew that he was having a medical emergency, and they left him laying on the carpet to die for hours.
Which is also a wild story.
He was slowly poisoned over years by this arch rival, Stalin.
Most likely he lucked out and avoided a public beheading.
That’s why I’m a capitalist, who famously have never killed anyone for being a communist
Truly a paragon. Transcending above racism, classism, or religion, he believed in and fought for equal opportunity murder.
All animals are equal, but some of them have guns
Do people actually defend Stalin still?
It’s more that some people don’t actively condemn him to the satisfaction of others.
The USSR under Stalin defeated Nazi Germany. Idle denunciation of Stalin in 2026 is the classic and most trusted pivot for (crypto)fascists to focus on when cornered or feeling insecure.
That’s the primary scenario that people are accused of ‘defending Stalin’. There’s always a nazi all too willing to spearhead this conversation, 70 years on after his death. Usually can’t even bring up Khrushchev and De-Stalinization usually since it’s not focusing on Stalin enough.
Not necssesarily defend, but they shift blame away from Stalin. Essentially, “He was bad, but not THAT bad, that’s just western propaganda”
You’ll see commonly that .ml excuses the famines (yes, plural) created by Stalin by shifting the blame towards environmental factors like “oh but there was a bit of a drought” or “they actually did it all themselves by burning their grain”, “it was to stop the Nazis from siezing the grain themselves”, the list of excuses goes on.
Just this morning, I was looking at a tv screen when it was announced a new study had concluded nearly 68% of russians still lament the disband of the soviet union.
Propaganda as it is, even if we cut those numbers by two thirds, it’s still too many people longing by one of the most brutal totalitarian regimes that has ever existed.
As a side note: I worked for some time with a company that imported machinery from Ukraine and Belarus, in the 2000’s, and I saw the amount of graffiti with USSR simbology that was plastered on the crates. Some people don’t allow it to just shrivel and die silently.
This isn’t to say the USSR did not created good things.
I worked with a fellow from Romania and he was appalled with how bad by comparison my country’s public health care system was.
But the numbers tally a grimm story of the USSR and the wrongs vastly outnumber the rights.
We are in the golden age of stupidity. People defend everything.
All of recorded history is western imperialist propaganda.
it’s true that history is written by the victors but there’s still the point that (most) americans in 1960 could afford 1 house, 2 cars and 3 children.
Any proof of that
Clearly you’ve been brainwashed by capitalism.
A non answer to a request for evidence on an idiotic statement. Go take your pills shitbrain.
If he’s on Lemmy he is more than likely not a capitalist. You’re more than likely a tankie though. The left can exist without authoritarianism dipshit.
I’ll take that as a no
