Was Stalin's brutality justified by the fact his system was able to industrialize Russia faster than would have ever been possible under the Tsar or more moderate socialist leadership?
>>18248134This fool will feel tenfold the Brutality inflicted upon him by sublime Indra-Yaldabaoth, God in Heaven, for his failure to annihilate the Tartars-Volga.
>>18248134Obviously not, his rampage ruined so much of Russia they will never fully recover
>>18248134He's arguably the only leader in history to succeed in actually developing Russia. Whether that's a good thing is a separate question
>his system was able to industrialize Russia faster than would have ever been possible under the Tsar or more moderate socialist leadership?Holy shit
>>18248134He was wildly successful at industrializing the Soviet Union, but the problem here is that the brutality was foundational in also consolidating the USSR as a system that would not tolerate dissent of any kind, not even from within the party, and it never really healed from that enough to become a more nimble and resilient system (let alone a truly humane one) and that eventually contributed to its collapse. Also when you get into individualized accounts of the atrocities these decisions facilitated, it was just wanton sadism a lot of the time:https://youtu.be/JGYzd191eEEThat's actually a kind of "dialectical" way of looking at it, where the thing that makes you rise is also what makes you fall.
>>18248134> https://ideas.repec.org/p/nbr/nberwo/19425.htmlRead the science. The answer is NO.Industrialization at any cost is the same SHIT as the Tsar's we need serfdom to build Petersburg SHIT. Stalin was the Tsar. The same extractive state, same police terror, same peasant body count for progress. Just with a red aesthetic and five-year plans instead of icons and manifestos.
>>18248134>his system was able to industrialize Russia fasterLet's not kill people for money.
