It’s important to note though that most communists in the global south don’t even mention Stalin, or if they do it’s mostly to acknowledge he had a major role in defeating fascism.
Whether it’s because of propaganda or because they remember the USSR’s role in the collapse of global communism, I don’t know. But most still openly praise Lenin but rarely talk about Stalin and pretend Khrushchev and everyone else don’t exist lol
People seem to fixate on his role in industrializing Russia and defeating the Nazis. That’s just one or two feats. But this article and the Trotskyite article from a few weeks ago don’t focus on that. Their focus is on how many communist/leftist uprisings were effectively suppressed by the USSR for larger geopolitical reasons. Legit or not, people remember it. Obviously Russians will remember when their lives were better under the USSR and even under Stalin and that’s valid, but I think it’s also valid to not be too fond of the guy who gave up on your country’s revolution. Maybe it was doomed to fail and he just hurried it, but it still stings looking back.
The CPSU didn't have the opportunity to rebuild their party the way the CPC did in Yanan after the Long March. There's a direct causation between WWII killing so many principled comrades and snakes like Khrushchev taking over the party after Stalin's death.
I highly doubt most modern communists in the global south - who are usually busy with actual organizing - have trouble forming a fair judgement about their parties and history
It’s clear that Lenin and perhaps works about Lenin by Stalin is more useful to them, and debating about Stalin’s legacy is a waste of their time
Each of the points were elaborated in detail, see if machine translation works for you, if not I may have to spend time translating the entire article if you’re interested.
There's also Kronstadt even if thats under Lenin and executed by Trotsky.
And I mean disregarding any allegations of being paid counterrevolutionaries, the demands include to release all "political prisoners"(vague and nondefined term) and to let opposition parties and groups operate freely, this being during a civil war which has had both open rebellion and terrorist campaigns conducted by some of these groups. Would those that have participated in bomb plots be "political prisoners"? Who knows! But it sounds very nice to say that political prisoners must be released.
They also mention Greece and Yugoslavia. And it’s not an uprising, but I would also consider the purge of old bolsheviks a suppression. Rather convenient that everyone is an op.
It’s important to note though that most communists in the global south don’t even mention Stalin, or if they do it’s mostly to acknowledge he had a major role in defeating fascism.
Whether it’s because of propaganda or because they remember the USSR’s role in the collapse of global communism, I don’t know. But most still openly praise Lenin but rarely talk about Stalin and pretend Khrushchev and everyone else don’t exist lol
People seem to fixate on his role in industrializing Russia and defeating the Nazis. That’s just one or two feats. But this article and the Trotskyite article from a few weeks ago don’t focus on that. Their focus is on how many communist/leftist uprisings were effectively suppressed by the USSR for larger geopolitical reasons. Legit or not, people remember it. Obviously Russians will remember when their lives were better under the USSR and even under Stalin and that’s valid, but I think it’s also valid to not be too fond of the guy who gave up on your country’s revolution. Maybe it was doomed to fail and he just hurried it, but it still stings looking back.
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The CPSU didn't have the opportunity to rebuild their party the way the CPC did in Yanan after the Long March. There's a direct causation between WWII killing so many principled comrades and snakes like Khrushchev taking over the party after Stalin's death.
I highly doubt most modern communists in the global south - who are usually busy with actual organizing - have trouble forming a fair judgement about their parties and history
It’s clear that Lenin and perhaps works about Lenin by Stalin is more useful to them, and debating about Stalin’s legacy is a waste of their time
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Could you please? That would be awesome.
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Thanks!
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Sure but the number is negligible
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There's also Kronstadt even if thats under Lenin and executed by Trotsky.
And I mean disregarding any allegations of being paid counterrevolutionaries, the demands include to release all "political prisoners"(vague and nondefined term) and to let opposition parties and groups operate freely, this being during a civil war which has had both open rebellion and terrorist campaigns conducted by some of these groups. Would those that have participated in bomb plots be "political prisoners"? Who knows! But it sounds very nice to say that political prisoners must be released.
They also mention Greece and Yugoslavia. And it’s not an uprising, but I would also consider the purge of old bolsheviks a suppression. Rather convenient that everyone is an op.