Stalin is NOTHING!

[Aaron]

Stalin was a dictator. Get over it. Besides, just dismissing everything as "capitalist propaganda" just makes you look stupid. You should actually provide some evidence yourself. And not from Pravda either.

I will oppose Stalin regardless of whether or not he killed 20 million people. The guy did not permit free speech. He did not allow protests. He did not allow freedom of the press.

Communists are supposed to work towards a communism not authoritarianism. The guy was a paranoid maniac that wouldn't listen to other people.

Regardless of whether or not the USSR defeated Germany when he was in power, he was still a dictator. Furthermore, the USSR would have probably kicked Germany's ass a lot sooner if Stalin didn't have his fucking purges of the officers every few years. Oh, and Stalin wasn't the one commanding the troops. His generals did that. Plus, the winter fucked the Germans over pretty bad anyway. So yea, Stalin wasn't so great anyway.

[Kaluza]

And yet Stalin was EFFECTIVE.

Russia was extremely EFFICIENT.

[Aaron]

So was Nazi Germany.

[PG4]

Have you read that thread defining the overall goal of the idealogies??

[krokkerknocker]

Stalin transformed the Soviet Union into one of the world's leading productive nations, that's definitely something.

[Kruger]

I'll say.

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