From the book "Stalin" the seminal work of Historian Domenico Losurdo

  • alcoholicorn [comrade/them, doe/deer]
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    1 year ago

    I hardly think the guy who beat the nazis and raised standards of living in the USSR from borderline starvation to comparable with western Europe in a couple decades a failure. There were regular famines before Stalin; after Stalin there were none until capitalism reversed all that progress, immiserated the populace, and decreased all measurements of human development by similar numbers to WWII.

    The CIA admits he wasn't a dictator, merely representing the dictatorship of the proletariat.