Stalin was an internationalist and that framing is a joke of a false dichotomy. People in Bengal still name their children after him for the famine relief he ordered. He lead the biggest transfer of technology in human history to help the newly-founded People's Republic of China. Though the PRC was the one who fought the Korean War, the DPRK would not even exist without the help of the Soviets, who literally can be said to have jointly founded the country alongside the reconstituted Workers' Party of Korea, which suffered from an anticommunist crackdown under the US that drove it out of the south.
I've gone on these rants before, so I can give you more extensive information, but perhaps just look at this:
He desired to collaborate with the fucking US State Department to, in the US, "denounce Stalinism". If we pretend he had good intentions, this is what would be referred to as "losing the plot" to an astonishing degree.
Stalin was an internationalist and that framing is a joke of a false dichotomy. People in Bengal still name their children after him for the famine relief he ordered. He lead the biggest transfer of technology in human history to help the newly-founded People's Republic of China. Though the PRC was the one who fought the Korean War, the DPRK would not even exist without the help of the Soviets, who literally can be said to have jointly founded the country alongside the reconstituted Workers' Party of Korea, which suffered from an anticommunist crackdown under the US that drove it out of the south.
I've gone on these rants before, so I can give you more extensive information, but perhaps just look at this:
https://www.revolutionarydemocracy.org/archive/trotsky.htm
He desired to collaborate with the fucking US State Department to, in the US, "denounce Stalinism". If we pretend he had good intentions, this is what would be referred to as "losing the plot" to an astonishing degree.