what was his secret? was he really just some guy with mad rizz who could reel up any crowd which earned him rep and moved him up the commie ladder?
His father crippled him
he sat patiently through every meeting (they called him "iron ass") and was incredibly intelligent, so figured out that the general secretary was the best way to gather the most power in the central committee, which was not obvious before he did it. Also he studied the insurrection carefully so that he could foil it when Trotsky tried it on him (which happened in 1927)
>>534977433What are some good books to read on this?
>>534977264Political machivelian brilliance The man used a joke of a position to practically cut his rival off from the internal politics of the Bolsheviks then further exiled him and eventually killed off all his rival’s loyalists and his rival before operation Barbosa His 5 year plan turned Russian into a super power His Great Purge erased Semitic influence
>>534977264The bar was really low back then in post-christian circles.Gibbon’s Fall of Ancient Rome describes christians as the original anti-government (emperor/police state) movement, but was subverted by hierarchy. The post hierarchical then had a 1800 year old war known as “enlightenment”, to which common ideas began to spread en-masse. Not only that, but they were interpreted by people who had been so goy’ed out of their minds that Stalin became the antichrist of the time, the Top Goy, Qanon nationalist.
>>534977264He was just based, as is The hero of /pol/
>>534977264>what was his secret?He was on the Rothschild payroll since the Baku oil strikes. Wouldn't even call it a secret he straight up declared eternal loyalty to them.
>>534977264He suckholed to Lenin then slowly poisoned him and then when Lenin was paralyzed he came and gloated over him while he chased Trotsky right out of the country. A nasty vindictive cowardly character. He was the very paradigm of the slogan; "only the paranoid survive".
>>534977264Stalin knew the deal.https://executiveconcern.substack.com/p/dead-water
>>534977493E. H. Carr, Studies in Revolutionthe biographies by Ian Grey and Henri BarbusseGeoffrey Roberts, Stalin's Libraryand there was another one by a fascist that explained how Trotsky pulled off the insurrection but I can't remember the name or the author, it was really good though, I think the author was Romanian
>>534977620you don't speak for /pol/ miga muttthat would be Hitler btw.
>>534977493the book I was thinking of was Coup d'État: The Technique of Revolution by Curzio Malaparte
>>534978034Thank you!
>>534977493Stephen kotkin - stalin
>>534979046Thanks!
>>534977264>what was his secret? was he really just some guy with mad rizz who could reel up any crowd which earned him rep and moved him up the commie ladder?He literally robbed banks to fund his comrades. He was a bad SOB that didn't take shit from anyone.
>>534977433He wasn't "intelligent". You could make an argument for his being "wise", albeit incredibly blinkered by ideology. Aside from psychopathy, Stalin's number one character trait was that he worked day and night. He volunteered to do everyone's homework all the time. And because he covered everyone's shifts, he had all the keys, all the passwords and all the documents. The civil service, the secret police and the military were all used to taking orders from Stalin, because he was always covering someone else's shift. One day, he just didn't return all those keys, passwords and documents after his shift, and kept them for himself. Then he used these passwords to order the deaths of all the people whose shifts he was covering. He became the only person in the country who had knowledge of how the state worked, and the only person with all the passwords. The military listened only to him. That's the whole story of his rise to power, more or less.
>>534980000there is a guy like that in my town
>>534977726If true, karma made its way back to him. Because I am pretty sure Berria poisoned him. Then faked cried when he was dead on the couch .
>>534980642If you're a project manager for an assassination company then don't let him cover your shift.
>>534977726Do you have a source for him gloating over Lenin? Gloating invites retribution. A paranoid person would not make this kind of mistake unless he was more narcissistic than paranoid. I think you'll agree that he was more paranoid. One of the reasons why Stalin was considered over Trotsky for the top job is because Trotsky was an arrogant braggart, while Stalin never defied his superiors in public. Stalin was indeed vindictive and cowardly. There is reason to believe that he ratted on his revolutionary buddies to the tsarist police in exchange for a reward. But no hard proof that I know of.
>>534977341He was mildly crippled by a horse-drawn cart running over his leg when he was a kid in Georgia. He had a limp, but it wasn't obvious.
>>534981276When was Stalin cowardly?
>>534981533Presumably when he ratted out his friends to the tsarist police in exchange for a reward. Though as I said there is no definitive proof of that. A more definitive example is when he impregnated a 13 year old, promised the parents he'd marry her, and then ran away.The most obvious example of his cowardice is his extreme paranoia. How he consistently hid from the dangers of the outside world and barked orders from a cave. How he kept killing his own loyal followers because he was afraid someone was out to get him. And how he would have the assassins killed afterwards because they knew too much. He was very brave with other peoples lives, though. Had no trouble causing 20 million civilian deaths in peace time, or ordering suicide charges to the tunes of tens of millions of dead soldiers. Or not bothering to sign POW human rights treaties, leading to captured soviet soldiers not having POW protections. Their job was to die for their country while Stalin was safe in his cave.
>>534977264Because he had a combination of extremely favorable traits that would make someone like him thrive in the corporate world or politics>psychopathy>machiavellianism>incredible memory>incredible work ethic>pragmatism>strong attention to detail and cynicismAll of these are very strong traits and will help you thrive in positions of power where everything is cutthroat and everyone is out to get you. He was a state builder through and through.
He never gave speeches though
>>534981872towards the end he was not sleeping at all, he needed doctors to sedate him to even get close to sleep. This made his mental state even worse. Lack of sleep will destroy any man especially when you got multiple days with zero sleep. Like I said in the end he was simply poisoned perhaps put out of his misery.
Russians/Eastern Europeans, what did Stalin eat
>>534977264He wrote extensively and read between 300-500 pages a day on average his entire adult life>>534983201Retard:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=poOZFKoEx9c
>>534981872His paranoia got rid of the Bolshevik old guard Not so much paranoia then>>534983201Stalin constantly gave speeches, his Red Square Battle for Moscow victory speech makes actual communists seethe
>>534983302Did sheckelsteinsky say this?
>>534981872>20 million deaths of traitors, criminals, venomous ideological scum, hostile minority groups, (((kulaks))), jews, Caucasians, tartars
>>534977264He wasn't as personally charismatic as Hitler or Mussolini. He just knew how to game the state bureaucracy and get everyone else to build his cult of personality for him.
>>534983302He was very aware of lack of sleep destroying any man. Sleep deprivation was an extremely cruel and extremely common torture method in the Soviet Union.
>>534983664playing the "humble" game goes far in eastern europe and asia. That shit does not fly in the west though.
>>534977264he knew the difference between power and prestige. he was always working towards getting more power, even if the title wasn't something spectacular.most people dont know this but general secretary was not considered a prestigious position at first. however stalin soon realized that it had immense power. if you could control the minutes of party meetings, which the secretary could, you could control the agenda. thats exactly what he did.xi operated in the same way. he found positions that no one else wanted but that had a lot of potential for power, and he would use them to the max, climbing the ladder this way until absolute power was in reach.stalin also had a very good sense of the peoples moods and he knew how to manipulate both FDR and Hitler. he didn't need to manipulate Churchill as he was a clown and a failure in every sense of the word.
Stalin's biggest mistake was not killing Beria and Krushchev after ww2 and setting up Molotov as his successor
>>534983743>Churchill You can literally trace the downfall of the UK and the British empire to that man. Then taking out princess Diana was the final death blow.
He even managed to reproduce, not even Hitler managed that
>>534983802I'd say his biggest mistake was killing millions if not tens of millions of innocent people for no reason.
>>534983894he was a pigfaced alcoholic shabbos goyno surprise boomers fucking love him
>>534983973his only mistake was not killing morehe was far too mercifulhad he gone as far as Mao, the USSR would still exists and be a superpower today
>>534983802Molotov would have been an improvement, but he was wrong about a lot of stuff, e.g., Afghanistan
>>534980000Nice digits, but everything you mentioned could definitely be described as intelligent.
>>534984066There is no meaningful difference between Mao and Stalin. Mao killed more people because he had more people to kill. I don't know what country you come from, but it looks like they don't teach "per capita theory" there.
>>534984231poles are so fucking butthurt about stalin. probably because they went from being a key part of the soviet elite (Rokossovsky, Dzerzhinsky, Menzhinsky) to getting sidelines for some reason. i havent looked into this in detail but i wouldnt be surprised if they overstepped in some way and now cry oppression, thinking it'll make them sympathetic in the eyes of the west. it won't. they're either gonna be the next ukraine or a jeet dumping ground. maybe both.
>>534984374no u dumb polak.mao completely centralized the state. he eliminated ALL rival factions, ALL pro western sentiment. he effectively handed off a perfect monopoly on violence to deng, who could then begin the economic miraclestalin never went far enough. there were other power centres within the USSR (jewish security mafia for one) that he did not control, hence a chinese style economic miracle could not take place.
even he realized kikes are behind every evil in the end:> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctors%27_plotshortly thereafter he was dead.
>>534980000Digits of insight.>"Aside from psychopathy..."kek
>>534977552>His Great Purge erased Semitic influencenah, woodrow wilson did that. he just up and handed them a completely untapped country and then they just all up and moved and called it a holocaust
>>534984374i think it also had to do with he came up with some of the stupidest shit imaginable that no european would ever consider. stalins deaths were purposeful, mao's deaths were just jewish tier incompotence.and if you ask me, i think that speaks more towards where jews were dedicating their attention because lets be real both of them were rothschilds puppets
>>534981335what was he doing in Georgia?
Unironically, many of the Soviet revolutionaries were a bunch of degenerate intellectuals (s0ys) and he was a Chad. Just look at Trotsky and Lenin then look at him. Just look at his head
Even Trump has a similar "hard" face
>>534981276Lenin was paralyzed by that point from being poisoned by Stalin.
>>534983973the holodomor is fakethe only primary source is a nazi Thomas Walker who was discredited in america in 1935, and his bs was only revived after ww2
>>534981872>A more definitive example is when he impregnated a 13 year old, promised the parents he'd marry her, and then ran away.>The most obvious example of his cowardice is his extreme paranoia. How he consistently hid from the dangers of the outside world and barked orders from a cave. How he kept killing his own loyal followers because he was afraid someone was out to get him. And how he would have the assassins killed afterwards because they knew too much.so based
>>534984086Afghanistan would have remained stable if Taraki had never been assasinated
>>534987943the only source for stalin fucking a 13 year old is an epstien associate
>>534981872>Poles seething about RussiaJSYK the only reason they do this is out of pride because Russia was a great empire meanwhile they were a backstabbing Jewish kingdom.
>>534977552Great summary. Lots to learn from Stalin when it comes to handling Jews. It was a time when many people suffered, and Stalin made sure that Soviet Jews weren’t excluded. It’s the real way to win.
>>534977552Julius Caesar trolled a rival by declaring holidays to prevent their election when he was pontifex maximus
>>534978069The comparisons between Trump and Stalin are very abstract and tangential, a kind of failed art project.What we can say for sure: Trump is keeping the price of oil high, and that benefits Russia. Russia arms Iran, Iran arms Hezbollah. It’s the best we’re going to get, and it makes neoliberal Jews like Robert Kagan exhausted, trying to juggle during a two-front conflict.
>>534988352Love him or hate him, but Stalin was a true statesman. Trump in comparison is just an orange Gorbachev.
