"The Social-Democratic lackeys, in an attempt to hurt the Communists, taunt them with being "Stalinists." But we Communists are proud of being called by this honorable title, just as we are proud of being called Leninists. There is no greater honor for the proletarian revolutionary than to be a real Leninist, a real Stalinist, to be a supremely faithful follower of Lenin and Stalin. And there is no greater happiness for the Communists than to fight under the leadership of the great Stalin for the triumph of the just cause of the world proletariat."
- Georgi Dimitrov, Stalin and the World Proletariat (1940)
Well of course, this was still just a bit after their peak. They had just destroyed the KPD and wanted to blame the soviets for themselves getting caught in the blast
No idea, I thought they got owned by the fucking nazi much earlier. Imagine being anti communist while Hitler is actually fucking ruling and attacking the East
The SPD yes, they got got in '33. I mean socdems writ large