We can gladly acknowledge Stalin's role in defeating Fascism and such, though your joke is more /r/redscare :reddit-logo: material. Stalin was patriarchial in his individual sphere and not the feminist ideal the soviet union could've been, even when the material conditions after 1917 were much better for women than before.
I heard his wife committed suicide and stuff but I haven't heard about him actual beating anyone, although maybe it's just inferred? People can make up almost anything about Stalin and have it passed off as historical "common sense". A lot of these claims about him have very few actual accounts or primary document type material. For example, we know he was homophobic because there was a communique where he basically stated as much. Is there anything similar in terms of his relationship to family or any other hints? Perhaps his wife committing suicide is a big enough tell though either way.
He was pretty abusive to his sons. Stalin was a very good economist and ran the country well but on a personal level he was not nice which doesn't make him wrong about managing the economy or state.
Stalin really does not seem like a "nice guy" at all by all impressions I get. Lenin and many other Bolsheviks as well. It's a big reason that they were such effective politicians, but it's definitely a two edged sword.
It's not that surprising tbh he had an abusive father, came from a cultural background where that was common etc... it's like how there was prejudice in soviet Russia against homosexuals and Roma because they were both part of the cultural background where that was common.
Still beat women and so on.
did he tho?
We can gladly acknowledge Stalin's role in defeating Fascism and such, though your joke is more /r/redscare :reddit-logo: material. Stalin was patriarchial in his individual sphere and not the feminist ideal the soviet union could've been, even when the material conditions after 1917 were much better for women than before.
I heard his wife committed suicide and stuff but I haven't heard about him actual beating anyone, although maybe it's just inferred? People can make up almost anything about Stalin and have it passed off as historical "common sense". A lot of these claims about him have very few actual accounts or primary document type material. For example, we know he was homophobic because there was a communique where he basically stated as much. Is there anything similar in terms of his relationship to family or any other hints? Perhaps his wife committing suicide is a big enough tell though either way.
He was pretty abusive to his sons. Stalin was a very good economist and ran the country well but on a personal level he was not nice which doesn't make him wrong about managing the economy or state.
Stalin really does not seem like a "nice guy" at all by all impressions I get. Lenin and many other Bolsheviks as well. It's a big reason that they were such effective politicians, but it's definitely a two edged sword.
It's not that surprising tbh he had an abusive father, came from a cultural background where that was common etc... it's like how there was prejudice in soviet Russia against homosexuals and Roma because they were both part of the cultural background where that was common.
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