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What is your opinion of Joseph Stalin? (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I believe in socialism, but I feel Stalin shouldn't be idolised due to things like the Gulag.

I would like more people to become socialist, but I feel not condemning Stalin doesn't help the cause.

I've tried to have a constructieve conversation about this, but I basically get angry comments calling me stupid for believing he did atrocious things.

That's not how you win someone over.

I struggle to believe the Gulag etc. Never happened, and if it happened I firmly believe Stalin should be condemned.

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[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

How do you define what a Nazi is?

Do counter revolutionaries deserve to be sent to worker camps where the conditions are so bad many die?

"Send people who don't agree with my world view to worker camps" Doesn't feel like a good thing

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

How do you define what a Nazi is?

Are you part of the Canadian parliament, per chance?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

The inadequate conditions in many camps had more to do with wartime conditions and the consequences thereof than ruthlessness or sadism.

Unfortunately, Moscow, because of the stressful conditions of the 1930s and the fear of an anticommunist reinvasion, did indeed cause collateral damage in some of its attempts to suppress counterrevolutionaries. Such overreactions are the inevitable consequences of a revolution regardless of it agenda. Even so, the way that Moscow handled disagreements was complex.

There is more that I could add, but I don't see the point.