Stalin’s Legacy
May 13
2009
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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