Are there any legitimate criticisms about him that don’t rely on misinfo or appeals to emotion?
>>18363656he trusted and build up hitler
>>18363656Nearly destroyed Russia by trusting Hitler
his compassion held him back
getting rid of 90% of your colonels right before a war was pretty fucking stupid
Purges hit the wrong people, genuine Communists got hit with them and purged out of the party while Libtards like Beria and Khrushchev sat on the Politburo. As soon as Stalin died, Khrushchev and Beria basically raced against eachother to dismantle functional Communism as fast as possible and make the USSR basically just an oligarchic state controlled by corrupt "Red Directors" (Regional, industry, agricultural managers) who became a crypto-Capitalist class. By 1965 (Kosygin-Lieberman reforms) central planning was functionally abolished in the Soviet Union. So the legacy of the Bolsheviks didn't even last 15 years post Stalin.If you want a good book on what Stalin did right and what he was shit at https://libgen.gl/edition.php?id=146689716https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiA_2qYJneg&list=PL0-IkmzWbjoZcvcrr0CU0I8yqN4l9UPzl
>>18364353the lack of officers in 1941 was mostly because of forming a large ammout of new divisions and not because of the purge
>>18363656He was atheist instead of neopagan. If he revived Slavic paganism, he would have gone down as one of the greatest leaders in human history.
>>18363656He was a communist
>>18363656If you’re an actual Marxist-Leninist then there’s a whole heap of criticism to make.
>Are there any legitimate criticisms about him that don’t rely on misinfo or appeals to emotion?
>>18363656>Are there any legitimate criticisms about him that don’t rely on misinfo or appeals to emotion?I can some specific ones, but in terms of the larger context, part of the problem is the circumstances of the war which smashed all opposition to him among communist forces worldwide. But in fact there were a lot of criticism after he died, not only from within the Soviet party but there's stuff from Mao and Fidel Castro (later) that are on the record. Also as a subsection of all this, but not important, is the existence of crank Stalin fans out there who have a relationship with him that is more like religious worship, and other than Kim Il Sung in North Korea there really isn't any communist leader who is treated like that.>>18364367>As soon as Stalin died, Khrushchev and Beria basically raced against eachother to dismantle functional Communism as fast as possibleNo, they were trying to impose some kind of administrative rationality on a system that was completely chaotic and arbitrary in practice. If you want to run an industrial economy you need predictability and stability and not managers and other cadres being disappeared and sent to labor camps (or possibly shot) because they made a mistake. Now one of the consequences of that stability is that the managers became corrupt and decided it would be better to go with capitalism down the road, but it wasn't sustainable to rule by terror while overseen by a single infallible leader forever especially after the Great Teacher and generallisimo died. (North Korea figured it out and also shifted into a mutant system with a hereditary monarchy in all but name but still.)
>>18363656I'd like to see an argument made for why Butugychag was okay.
>>18363656He killed a lot of people.
>>18363656didn't support enough in the korean war
>>18365243source??????
