Please make the purges make sense
Stalin didn't have a snickers that day
>I'm right and you are all wrong
>>18516886>Why would a georgian divorcee mugger who bullied his son into suicide kill the people under him at random this doesn't make sense
>>18516886His paranoia was entirely justified and most of the people who were purged were actual subversives.
>>18516886So for 24 hours all crime is legal except like atomic bombs and stuff. They announce it with a siren.
>>18517098But the goal they were trying to subvert was immoral and impossible to achieve anyway so that doesn't justify it.
>gee i sure dont want that guy to seize power from me>better get rid of himits not that hard to understand?
>>18516886Stalin is definitive proof that HR being in charge of the hiring and firing process leads to OP power and for that reason women should be barred from these positions as they are fake and gay.
>>18516886The Who Whom (ктo кoгo) problem. Class struggle doesn't stop with revolution but actually intensifies. When the revolution first suceeds capitalism is still very strong and socialism very weak and thus a struggle occurs throughout the country. To avoid a Thermidor sitaution dissenting remnants of the old order must be actively attacked. With the military defeat of the attempt at restoring capitalism, the right wing elements of society become wreckers and infiltrate the party as oppritunists and sabateuors who try to destroy the party from within and restore capitalism. Stalin understood this as a wise student of Lenin and made numerous polemics and managed to convince the party to expel the opposition of Trotsky and Zinoviev in 1927 at the 15th congress of the CPSU(b) due to their years of sabatoge, Menshevik policies, ecclecticism and lying and arrogance. And it was precisely this rejection of who whom that occurred during de-stalinization under Kruschev (student of Trotsky) that the global communist movement would faulter and eventually fail to prevent the restoration of capitalism.
Stalin was mentally ill. He was cuckoo fucking bananas. His doctor tried to tell him his paranoia was not rooted in reality and Stalin fired him.
>>18516886Stalin was a retard with pathological-grade paranoia.Inexplicably this paranoia did not extend to Hitler, which resulted in Stalin somehow being genuinely blindsided by Hitler's sudden yet inevitable betrayal.
>>18517690>Inexplicably this paranoia did not extend to Hitlerit's entirely explainable; he was in denial. Stalin to his credit knew full well that the USSR wasn't ready to face down Germany militarily in mid-1941 without suffering catastrophic and/or fatal damage and almost everything he did after he started losing the proxy war to the Axis in Spain in 1938 was to desperately buy time while the USSR beefed up its fighting strength. Same reason he crashed the fuck out when he saw how quickly France collapsed.He wasn't naive whatsoever about Germany; the entire point and aim of Soviet Bolshevik ideology was that they would inevitably eventually fight major wars against the Central and Western European capitalist-imperialist powers. But to accept that the Soviet military, which was still in a quite half-baked organizational/doctrinal state in the late spring of 1941, would have to face down 150 Wehrmacht divisions way too soon for comfort, was too unnerving to contemplate. If you had told Stalin in 1940 with confidence that Hitler was planning to launch Barbarossa in 1950 instead of 1941 and the USSR would have another decade to arm up and prepare, he probably would have believed it readily.
>>18516886Georgian scheming
>>18516886A way to avoid the scripts from the French Revolution and Russia in WW1.
>>18517098That's not helpful at all.
Stalin was right-wing at least in mentality if not in ideology.Nost succesful left-wingers are mentally right-wing. They embofy the cismic masculine or something. You know what I mean.
>>18517690He got conflicting information. Some reports told him that he was going to invade, with the exact date of the invasion included, others told him he would not. While history remembers the incredibly accurate warnings (like those from master spy Richard Sorge or the top-secret British Ultra intercepts), Stalin also received dozens of reports claiming the invasion was a British disinformation campaign designed to provoke a war between Germany and the USSR.Intelligence sources kept predicting different dates for the invasion (April, May, then June). When earlier dates passed without an attack, it reinforced Stalin's belief that the warnings were mostly psychological warfare or "provocations."He also made the mistake of thinking that Hitler was a rational actor. Stalin viewed Hitler not as an ideological fanatic driven by racial destiny (Lebensraum), but as a calculating, ruthless pragmatic politician, much like himself. Stalin believed Hitler would never commit the ultimate strategic blunder: a two-front war. Because Great Britain was still undefeated in the West, Stalin assumed Hitler’s massive troop buildup on the Soviet border was merely a muscle-flexing tactic to extort massive economic concessions (like more oil and grain) from the USSR without having to fight for them.The pre-war plans and wargames gave Stalin a dangerously false sense of security about how the war would play out. The Soviet High Command Strategic War Games of January 1941: These were massive, map-based simulations ordered by Stalin to test how the Red Army would fare against a Western invader (clearly meaning Nazi Germany).The takeaway Stalin took from it was: "If Germany invades, we might lose some ground initially, but our superior numbers and immediate counter-attacks will easily crush them and bring the war into Europe."
>>18517579>To avoid a Thermidor sitaution dissenting remnants of the old order must be actively attacked.The Stalinist cries out in pain as he strikes you.
>>18516886It's the puzzle of the 20th century.If I had to take a guess I would say that, just like the Nazis were murdering "non-Aryans" (and not perfectly healthy at that) because of their vision of an ethno-state, Stalin decided to remove from high positions anybody who he deemed a non-perfect communist; for a similar vision of a communist paradise. Murder was "necessary" because simply removing them from power would just create a group of disgruntled and potentially influential people. If loyalty to the very Stalin himself was in question or somebody had his own political ambitions then killing such person would be a no-brainer for him as well.
>>18516886Stalin was basically that tattletale kid that snitched his way to the top of the ladder then started arbitrarily banning people for disagreeing with him. He had no actual military or economic experience, he was just a pencil pushing bureaucrat that knew how to put his buddies into positions of power. Just goes to show that being a deceitful little shit pays off if no one else acts against it.
the Trotskyite-Zinovievite wreckers had it coming
>>18516886Look at state of Russia today. It’s culture of corruption at all levels of society. Sending a good portion of them to the gulags and executing the rest will work wonders for Russia. Stalin understood Russians and did what was necessary
>>18519180You are such a fucking stupid racist pole, your hatred of Russians at this point is just mental illness
>>18516886It was meant to eliminate factionalism in the CPSU(b) which had been a problem since before the revolution but exacerbated by the civil war. You have to keep in mind that the country was at the verge of a second civil war by the mid 30s, this makes it a lot easier to understand how extreme things became by 1938 rather than making a moral judgement and refusing to understand how a revolution often consumes the revolutionary. The politburo, not just Stalin, was also terrified that they'd be murdered at any moment and became extremely paranoid of the Central Committee. It should be noted that Khrushchev pushed the hardest for the purges when he was the Moscow boss
>faction that usurped power moves to eliminate other factions He did what he had to do to maintain power and viewed through that lense he was right to do it
>>18519612Factions might have been an official justifications but no one buys it. They weren't all rebels and spies.
>>18517823This is class warfare, a slave has every right to attack their former master, especially if they are trying to reenslave you.
>>18519593the entire Polemic Stalin gave against the opposition of Trotsky and Zinoviev is available on youtube on S4A's channel in audiobook form with minimal commentation under his anti-trotskyist playlist but these "people" (many are bots and shills because this site is fundamentally dying and crawling with glowies) will never check it out.
>>18519813Sure Comrade; I have just started to listen to 1.2k of leftist audiobooks on this channel to find an answer to a simple question. Thanks and let live the Revolution!
>>18519813>the entire Polemic Stalin gave against the opposition of Trotsky and ZinovievFucking kek and you just swallow that near-century-old propaganda up like a good little bureaucrat, huh?
>As soon as Stalin is gone liberal revisionists immediately take over USSR>As soon as Mao is gone liberal revisionists immediately take over the CCP>As soon as Ho Chi Minh and Giap are gone liberal revisionists immediately take over VietnamNow you get it
>>18521783>dumb retarded despot takes over>launches insane purges and kills countless people because his demented schizophrenia told him to>people get annoyed of this and decide to go to the other side in response when he dies
>>18516886To not get coup’dIt’s not complicated
>>18517603Did you graduate from Reddit university?
>>18517804Holy cope
>>18519900It's not a simple question, reducing it to "Stalin told them to do it and it happened" is unironically Soviet propaganda from the 50s that was pushed to absolve a lot of people of their actions in the 30s. Stalin wasn't a god nor did he rule with absolute power, it was a lot closer to true collective rule than the USSR had from the late 50s onward.
>>18521799>insane purgesAll justified.>kills countless peopleThe only thing the revisionists didn't change.
