however, he did give us one great thing.

the idea for a trotsky halloween costume with a fake icepick sticking out of the head

@mcstubbs Pfffft.

@Aidan xD It's bourgeois propaganda created by the imperialist states to discredit the USSR. There is not a shred of evidence Stalin committed genocide. Usually this charge is made against the Holodomor, of which not even bourgeois historians are in agreement that it was genocide.

absolute m a d m a n

@mcstubbs The fucking erix andre show.

@Deleted User Middle English coincided with Norman rule. Naturally, the vocabulary fell under heavy influence by Norman French. However, the everyday commoner vocabulary was still primarily Germanic, and still possessed distinct characteristics inherited from Old Norse. Also, Old English is still English.

thx @NoCountryForAllMen#8084

if anybody i know would get that joke, i would go as trotsky.

instead, i'm going as nietzsche and screaming at people about wills in a silly german accent.

@Aidan xD You have to admit that most arguments against communism are based on lies

I mean you realize that at this point right?

tru

I also hear that

stalin killed people in gulag

and it had bad conditions

yeah, the gulags weren't fun

Propaganda comrade

More lies

@Aidan xD Stalin also paid the clouds to fuck off and used his dialectical wizardry to curse the crops with wheat rust.

^

What kind of idiot would unironically believe Stalin killed 100 million people?

yeah

everyone knows it was 200 million

@Deleted User True, but it is hard to tell at all that it actually was english at all, seeing as how it contains nordic characters such as the Ü and æ characters, which are normally used in germany, and the noridc countries, this shows how the language was a mesh between the vikings and the britan languages, and the middle english language in the end was such a radical change to the language, that it could very well be considered a different language all together from the original english language.

neber forget the ebils of gommunism :DDDDDDD

@Deleted User I can't personally accept that it's a different language altogether but I can understand where you're coming from. You make a fair point.

Joseph "No Rain in The Ukraine" Stalin

@mcstubbs lel

@Deleted User Hmm, if I remember correctly.... didn't the population not decrease due to russia's population size? Though I agree the claim that 80M died because of stalin is questionable, there is no doubt that millions died under stalin.

i'm unsure of the exact numbers because the most i know about the purges and all of that are mainly that of the officer corps of the red army, and that wasn't significant in proportion the the USSR's population

there's a historian that i keep up with who says the most he'd credit him with is 20m, but he's also a trotskyist and a military historian, and he's said himself that he doesn't know the exact number

Now the holodomor was most likely not done intentionally, but because of the famine, and the soviet unions already big shortage on food and it's distrabution, it ended up leaving the kulaks high and dry, which meant that they had to feed themselves during the famine, which led to millions dying.

probably less than 20m, probably more than 3

@mcstubbs No way it was just 3 M.

yeah, definitely more

@mcstubbs At least in the tens od millions.

@Deleted User According to the 1937 census, there were around 162 million people accounted for. This was prior to the devastating losses as a result of WW2 AKA "The Great Patriotic War". And the population increase was primarily due to a radical change in living standards as a result of the Bolsheviks seizing power and implementing numerous social and economic reforms.

i think 15-20 is a good ballpark