it's always a tank

i mean T-34s are appealing af

Yeah but that doesn't mean you have to support Stalin

na i just support him for other stuff

Like what

what are you?

Thot

coolio

i wouldn't worry too much about me being a tankie

@black jack hey 🅱

im from eastern europe

tanks are common here

If you like killing communists you should support stalin 😂

Can you tell me why stalin purged his opponents

here is a great interview with stalin

it basically asks him all the questions westerners would like to ask him

so you can get a response from the man himself

https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1931/dec/13a.htm

he even talks about trotsky and the holodomor and stuff

How do you justify him ordering the death of not only Trotsky, but also his sister and brother in law, 2 of his nephews, his wife, and 2 of his sons?

i ask you this

if stalin was such a terrible dictator that starved so much of his own people

why didn't the soviet populace revolt?

they already had 2-3 revolutions under their belt

they were well ready to overthrow stalin if they wanted to

I never claimed that he was a dictator, although he had an unhealthy amount of power in his hands

Or that he intentionally starved people

okay, that's good

i mean look

Because the people in power were supporters of his regime

i can get hating him for like purging opponents and family members

He purged opposition

Take Bukharin for instance, who literally developed the theory of socialism on one country that was applied by stalin

besides, while I do support Stalin, I wouldn't take his ideology into praxis if a communist country would rise up today

He used him and then killed him

Lenin never intended for suppression of dissent

Bukharin was good in ideological terms but not so much in economic terms

Especially not fucking killing them

certainly you know about the NEP

Yes

How does that justify killing him