• @[email protected]
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    21 year ago

    I wonder why communist leaders are some of the most popular leaders in their former socialist republics 🧐🧐

    • @SkyezOpen
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      01 year ago

      Because opposition goes to the gulag?

        • @SkyezOpen
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          11 year ago

          He founded a sub-party of the communist party, and according to the wiki you linked, their ideology was literally stalinism. How is that in any way oppositional to Stalin?

          • @[email protected]
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            21 year ago
            1. Stalinism doesn’t exist, there is only Marxism-Leninism
            2. Many pro-market reformers were non-partisans, although some were in the CPSU
            • @SkyezOpen
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              1 year ago

              Stalinism is a subset of ML, as I learned from the wiki page you linked.

              And OK, you’re right, Stalin wasn’t a brutal authoritarian leader because he allowed non partisans into a ML party that he created, and we’ll just ignore the 1.7 million gulag deaths.

              Actually, I’ll do you a favor. You already know all the dead people under Stalin I’m going to bring up in this thread, so why don’t you go ahead and just defend them all now and save us both some time?

              • @[email protected]
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                31 year ago

                Stalin wasn’t a ‘Stalinist’ he was a Marxist-Leninist by word and action, most famous gulag prisoner Alexander Solzhenitsyn received treatment for cancer whilst in it, and vast majority returned alive. I don’t see how this is different to any other prison system in the world, just another piece of over-exaggerated Cold War propaganda for Western audiences.

                I do agree this exchange is pointless, have a good rest of your day

    • @Holyginz
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      -11 year ago

      Lmao they aren’t. Thanks for playing our game though

    • @[email protected]
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      -31 year ago

      Because they are not. Stalin for example was a mass murderer just like Hitler. So why would anybody like him?