• Achyu@lemmy.sdf.org
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    3 hours ago

    Lenin, despite his solution to everything being mass murder

    Isn’t that the USA foreign policy solution?
    Genociding Guatemala.
    Use chemical weapons in Vietnam against their people.
    The only country to ever use nuclear weapons on civillians.
    WMD quests.
    Smuggle drugs into their own country, in black neighbourhoods and such, to increase violence and unrest in such populations.

    Stalin is celebrated because of the rapid industrialisation and his correct prediction of the need to do it to defeat enemies, which came true with the WW2 and the Nazis being defeated by their army.

    And when some people include POW imprisonment for gulag data and Nazi deaths in the war as Stalin’s kill count, some leftists would counter it.

    And their HDI indeed improved under communism.

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      2 hours ago

      yes, the US is shit, moving on.

      Stalin is celebrated because of the rapid industrialisation and his correct prediction of the need to do it to defeat enemies, which came true with the WW2 and the Nazis being defeated by their army.

      Hey, now, don’t be disingenuous. Stalin was perfectly okay with Nazi Germany and wanted an equal share in the invasion of Poland. They only helped the Allies after Nazi Germany betrayed them. If Nazi Germany didn’t betray the Union, then the Union would’ve been okay with their existence.

      And when some people include POW imprisonment for gulag data and Nazi deaths in the war as Stalin’s kill count, some leftists would counter it.

      And you doubt this? Do you doubt that Stalin’s soviet union rounded up Jews, queers and minorities for the main purpose being extermination?