What is the perspective on Stalin. It depends on the viewpoint – and as to whether the viewer is from the Russian culture and way of thought.  To Russian’s in the 1960’s America with all of its crisises was downright frightening due to instability and chaos.  To their eyes the time of Stalin was something that they did manage to live through and endure.  A country that was devastated in the“Great Patriotic War”  was transformed into one of the two major superpowers of the globe thretening the main superpower indeed -  the major opponent..

STALIN, MAO, POL POT…AND OTHER REACTIONARIES – Stalin and Mao both were cruel despots. Between the two of them, they accounted for approximately 100 million of the deaths attributed to socialism during the twentieth century. Pol Pot was another matter. … What I do submit to the reader is that this is the basis for the hostility of just about every communist leader to urbanization and that they are the reactionaries. Confirmation of my assertion of the importance of cities in the advance of civilization is that it is …

Neo-Stalinism Part 2: Saint Stalin « Dj Konservo – His government has tried to help by commissioning guidelines and books that present a more balanced picture of Joseph Stalin, described in one approved volume as “the most successful Soviet leader ever.” Later in September 2007, … “The people have forgiven him for the repressions, the collectivization, the elimination of cadres of the Red Army and other inevitable errors and tragedies of those cruel military and revolutionary times. “Stalin has become the true national …

A Spectacular Failure: On Stalin and Stalinism – Another despot in his position may have sought even more power through foreign conquests, but Stalin was more focused on vast schemes of social engineering then with international diplomacy. His general policy towards Germany was to continue …. Apart from the human cost (de-kulakization) and terrible atrocities (Ukrainian famine) committed in the countryside during the Stalin Revolution, the actual success of this excessively cruel policy can be called into question. …

Right Ways. » Blog Archive » Politburo archives shed new light on … – According to Khruchev’s report he was a despot and murderer. It took Khruchev four hours to finish, during which he blamed Stalin for creating a cult of his personality and cruel treatment of his opponents. That was his report, and it signaled the end of terror and … In the Politburo archives, Zhukov found a telegram send by Khruchev, who after becoming a Leader of Ukraine in 1938, asked Politburo to authorize execution or arrest of more than 33 thousand people. …

Jihad Watch: Fitzgerald: Sunnis, Shi’a, Saddam, and Stalin – And the Shi’a, now keenly aware that the the disguisted Sunni despotism called “Iraqi Ba’athism” is now over for good. Those Shi’a know that they have all the cards. They constitute 60-65% of the population. The oil that exists outside of the Kurdish … The Qur’an, the hadith, and the life of Muhammad are full of tales of warfare, of cruel punishments, of implacable refusal to show mercy to enemies, of the need of victors to treat those defeated as completely vanquished. …

                     To a great degree Russia was returned to its former state of glory along with buffer states to shield itself from the outsiders.

                     Its all a matter of perspective if whether Stalin and Stalinism was overall good or bad.

 

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             For almost three decades – from the death of Lenin in 1953 – Joseph Stalin (1879 – 1953) ruled the “Soviet Union”   with an iron hand , often as tyranically as any oriental potentate had ever ruled against his subjects.   Eliminating his former comrade in arms one by one , Stalin turned first against hisTrotskyist  radicals who favoured the immediate support of world wide revolutions , as opposed to Stalin’s own plan to perfect “socialism in one country”, the U.S.S.R.  and then proceed from there.

        Some say that in 2009 current left wingers have idealized as well as romantacized the memory of Stalin in their own eyes as opposed to the real history and course of events.

             Having defeated the left wing opposition and driven Trotsky  into exile in 1928.  Trotsky was assassinated eleven years later , presumably on Stalin’s own orders.  Stalin then turned against the “right wing opportunists and bourgeois nationalists.”  Opposed to radical collectivization and industrialization at the expense of current consumption, these “right wing devinationalists” favored a moregradual introduction of changes at a speed that would not call forth the bitter antagonism of peasants.  The leaders these moderate forces, men like Bukkarin had almost all been active revolutionists during the days of the establishment of the Soviet Union, had fought on Lenin’s side against the White Russians.   Now their time had come.  During the 1930’s the victims would become the Trotskyites.

Neo-Stalinism Part 2: Saint Stalin « Dj Konservo – “We must remember those who suffered, because it is a lesson for all of us — a lesson that many have not learned,” Gorbachev said at a discussion marking the 70th anniversary of the bloodiest year of Stalin’s Great Terror. … have forgiven him for the repressions, the collectivization, the elimination of cadres of the Red Army and other inevitable errors and tragedies of those cruel military and revolutionary times. “Stalin has become the true national leader of Russia. …

ACTION UKRAINE REPORT (Archive): AUR#832 Apr 22 Stalin’s Great … – ruled for centuries by despots and cruel ideologues, yet often a beacon to the world in literature, music, religion and science; usually unfree, yet touched by genius amid unspeakable man-made hardships; the place that produced Ivan the Terrible and Joseph ….. Stalin the individual, his psychology, his growth as a leader.” The British historian Simon Sebag Montefiore was granted access to some of that material for his book “Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar” (2004) and …

Jihad Watch: Fitzgerald: Sunnis, Shi’a, Saddam, and Stalin – And Saddam Hussein’s trust in fellow-Muslim Iran was akin to the trust shown by his great model, the man he admired most, Joseph Stalin, when Stalin had Molotov sign the pact with Ribbentropp. And though a master of malevolent … And the Shi’a, now keenly aware that the the disguisted Sunni despotism called “Iraqi Ba’athism” is now over for good. Those Shi’a know that they have all the cards. They constitute 60-65% of the population. The oil that exists outside of the …

Dhimmi Watch: Fitzgerald: Uzbekistan and “Islamophobia” – You are one of those Uzbeks, and you are mulling this over, and you wonder – what did our great leader Timur think of this one? You look, and you find – while he didn’t invoke Jihad as a pretext for his wars against the Persians, … Does a “proud Georgian” simply have to regard Stalin as his “hero”? We are free to pick and choose, and if Timur Leng won’t do — think of those mountains of skulls he specialized in, think of what he did to the Assyrian Christians who in …

Topless Robot – The 7 Supervillians Who Should Rule the World – There’s no doubt that Lex could be a great world leader–the question is would he choose to be? If not for the way he handled his failed presidency, Lex might rightfully land higher on this list. 3) Magneto magneto.jpg. Erik Lensherr doesn’ t want to rule the world so much as to control his part of it; but still, his basic humanity may save him from being the mutant despot that so many people fear he would be. Had Magneto the power to back up his dictates (and suppress his …

Thought Leader » Khadija Sharife » False prophets and ‘message … – Owen you poor deluded soul – what you fail to realize is that America IS the alternative – they have been at war ever since their so called “liberation” from their “Cruel oppressive and despotic” overlords the British. … Maybe unknowingly , she has pointed out a great sin by South Africans. We want to be so much American, that we even start thinking and acting like them. Problem is, we do not imitate the good, but much more of what is wrong with America. …

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