Don't forget that while the USSR was the closest humanity got to saving itself from capitalism, "Joey Steel" was a pedophile. He wasn't the USSR, he was just a man and he shouldn't be venerated. It just as cringe as being one of the freaks who sucks off Churchill.
Stalin didn't speak breathlessly about the "triumph of the Aryan race" or how the Indians inflicted famine on themselves by "breeding like rabbits". In fact, in the latter case, Stalin used both his executive power and personal sway to expedite aid to Bengal.
Stalin can and should be criticized (e.g. he was deeply homophobic from what I can tell), but drawing an equivalence between him and a monstrous colonialist and racial supremacist like Churchill is frankly disgusting.
the claim does not originate from Montefiore. there's references before he published from Krasnoyarsk. local myth, anti-communist fabrication? still possible, but the story was definitely not fabricated in Montefiore's book.
edit: and the book AverageMaoist cites was also published before Montfiore's
Don't forget that while the USSR was the closest humanity got to saving itself from capitalism, "Joey Steel" was a pedophile. He wasn't the USSR, he was just a man and he shouldn't be venerated. It just as cringe as being one of the freaks who sucks off Churchill.
Stalin can be criticised, personally and politically, but let’s not pretend he’s bad on the same level as Churchill.
Stalin didn't speak breathlessly about the "triumph of the Aryan race" or how the Indians inflicted famine on themselves by "breeding like rabbits". In fact, in the latter case, Stalin used both his executive power and personal sway to expedite aid to Bengal.
Stalin can and should be criticized (e.g. he was deeply homophobic from what I can tell), but drawing an equivalence between him and a monstrous colonialist and racial supremacist like Churchill is frankly disgusting.
These claims of pedophilia of Stalin are simply that, claims. They are preposterous and clearly not supported by evidence
Reminder that the allegations of Stalin being a pedophile came from a friend of Jeffrey Epstein.
the claim does not originate from Montefiore. there's references before he published from Krasnoyarsk. local myth, anti-communist fabrication? still possible, but the story was definitely not fabricated in Montefiore's book.
edit: and the book AverageMaoist cites was also published before Montfiore's
Interesting. Do you have a source, or further reading about this? If you're talking about Nadezhda, he married her when she was 18.
No I'm talking about Lida Pereprygina
https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=22810002512&searchurl=an%3Dboris%2Bs%2Bilizarov%26sortby%3D17&cm_sp=snippet--srp1--title1
It's a good read.