I'm pretty sure Trotsky would strongly disagree

Well, Stalin didn't have absolute power.. He wasn't the Czar, so he couldn't have singlehandedly crushed any dissenters.

"Political opposition in the USSR was barely visible and, with rare exceptions, of little consequence." -- Barber, John (October 1997). "Opposition in Russia". Government and Opposition. 32 (4): 598–613. doi:10.1111/j.1477-7053.1997.tb00448.x.

anyone got any ideas for posters or anything?

I'm bored and love to produce that kind of stuff, even if it's just an amature hobby thing

How about an /OurGuy poster?

@rhinoceros leftypol international members slauthering fascist scum?

In the decades following Stalin's death in 1953, the existence of interest groups and lobbies within the party and state apparatuses was persuasively argued by foreign observers; and occasionally fractional opposition within the ruling elite surfaced. The latter aimed at reversing specific policies and, twice, at replacing the country's leader — Khrushchev on both occasions, unsuccessfully in 1957 and successfully in 1964. From the 1960s onwards, dissent from the regime's values and goals was reflected in the statements and actions of individuals and small groups, often described as the ‘Soviet dissident movement’, though lacking either common objectives and strategy, or impact on the Soviet Union's rulers.

@Firefly Like you ever could!

@Firefly#9983 oh my

seems like there was opposition

of course

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/government-and-opposition/article/opposition-in-russia/134985172F2C3C715F622FC48111A4F2

i love how in real life actual communists and fascists only make up a total of about 3% of the population

could it be destalinization that created space for actual opposition

you know because Stalin crushed it?

fascists are a ton more than 3%, because by nature fascism isn't too open about it, as it needs to lure people in with more moderate-seeming authoritarianism

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1477-7053.1997.tb00448.x/full

@rhinoceros People see fascism as the most radical there can be.

@RobotWizard Of course. After Stalin's death the termites came out of the woodworks, Khrushchev being one of them. Many of these interest groups were funded by Western intelligence agencies. It's difficult being a socialist island surrounded by a sea of capitalism.

nah i'm pretty sure fascists only make up about 4% at most

the full quote literally talks how the USSR was structured in a way that made dissent difficult

and that's a stretch

no

that quote you fed me was clearly out of context here

@RobotWizard The post-stalin years proved that notion wrong.

Ayo

And prior to Stalin's death, there was minor opposition. Nobody was ever put to death by Stalin or his government for expressing their criticisms.

@Deleted User That is doubtable.....

@RobotWizard I didn't source that directly from the book, but an article that cited a passage from it. What you were talking about had more to do with political dissidents within the party apparatus.

Have u guys taken the nazbol pill yet?

@Deleted User That's true though. Facts aside, don't you honestly think that common sense would dictate that such an action would do more harm than anything? That's not as bad as suggesting that he starved millions of people, but it's still kinda far fetched.

@Deleted User What is your belief on the nazbol?

I am not sure.....

Stalin, based on personal testimonies, was a very agreeable person. He tolerated criticism privately as well as publically.

He was an intellectual, not some sociopathic meathead that couldn't take no for an answer.

Again, doubtable, anyways, I have to go to sleep, so I cannot get into this.

@Deleted User I believe that Nazbols are just ultranationalist loons that love the Soviet aesthetic.

strasserism is the future

Strasserism is garbage for basement-dwelling shitlords.