If you're talking about annexing part of Poland, I'm pretty sure that it was part of Russia prior to WW1. As far as Gulags, a lot of people needed some Gulagging.
Yeah that was for sure not good, I'm definitely not about being fully uncritical of Stalin but the good does very much outweigh the bad and the dude has been dragged for about a century and could use some good press.
I can’t imagine how world leaders in general keep the paranoia at bay, let alone how Stalin could have. Literally is the solution to just section off information between parts of your government and not give a shit about moles so long as people’s behavior is beneficial to you?
Well it was more that there was a culture of "if we can't find a saboteur the saboteur must be really good" that led to a criminalisation of incompetance, mainly because politically active people tend to assume other people are way more politically motivated than they are.
For instance a family friend of mine lived through ww1, ww2 and well into east germany without realising any of those things had happened thinking the kaiser was in charge
For instance a family friend of mine lived through ww1, ww2 and well into east germany without realising any of those things had happened thinking the kaiser was in charge
Didn't the NKVD also target ethnic minorities at certain points? With a bunch of bullshit crimes? In order to get forced labor ala the US prison system?
No, the polish operation was something different. Trying to weed out saboteurs by being extremely racist to poles
Didn't Stalin massively expand the gulag system? Thats pretty shitty. There is also the polish operation I think it is called?
Like a lot of stuff is exaggerated or just nazi propaganda but didn't he do some pretty shitty things?
If you're talking about annexing part of Poland, I'm pretty sure that it was part of Russia prior to WW1. As far as Gulags, a lot of people needed some Gulagging.
He did have an issue with looking for saboteurs where there weren't any.
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Yeah that was for sure not good, I'm definitely not about being fully uncritical of Stalin but the good does very much outweigh the bad and the dude has been dragged for about a century and could use some good press.
I can’t imagine how world leaders in general keep the paranoia at bay, let alone how Stalin could have. Literally is the solution to just section off information between parts of your government and not give a shit about moles so long as people’s behavior is beneficial to you?
Well it was more that there was a culture of "if we can't find a saboteur the saboteur must be really good" that led to a criminalisation of incompetance, mainly because politically active people tend to assume other people are way more politically motivated than they are.
For instance a family friend of mine lived through ww1, ww2 and well into east germany without realising any of those things had happened thinking the kaiser was in charge
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Wow. That explains a lot actually
am i reading this correctly??? :wut:
Yeah his boss had political connections that got him out of the wars, and he took no interest in either politics or the news
:grillman: he just wanted to grill for god's sake
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Didn't the NKVD also target ethnic minorities at certain points? With a bunch of bullshit crimes? In order to get forced labor ala the US prison system?
No, the polish operation was something different. Trying to weed out saboteurs by being extremely racist to poles
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I know that. Prisons are also shitty. Im not saying they're a unique evil, Im saying building a lot of prisons sucks.