Due to real-life connections some of my follows on Mastodon are local libs who keep boosting stuff like this into my timeline.
This here is an account with a huge following for Fedi standards and apparently also posts on X. Not much profile info, no banner but very reactionary. Looks to be posting like an authority on all things Russia.
This chain about Stalin is 15 posts long, I have no idea what is going on there as I am definitely not too well in the loop with the Ukraine - Russia thing, but this seems to be both anti-communist and very russophobic. Pretty sus yet the libs eat this up.
The Stalin Presidium in the lead up to the war did take a more conciliatory position to all religions in the Soviet Union in the name of rallying and unifying the entirety of the People's Republics against the fascist encroachment.
Those "compared to Lenin Stalin was a kitten" comments are starting to make some kind of sense.
Liberal. Not kitten.
Also I personally say that this is one of those events, ww2, where Stalin made the right choices even though they would not be concidered correct choices today by some. Concidering the fact that the Soviets made what would be concidered by today's standards a completely damning deal straight to hell in the non-aggressive pact between nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, I'd hardly blink at the act of telling a bunch of priests and imams that in exchange to an end of their active suppression that they better whip up a holy war against fascism.
Now where I think the kind Lenin may have differed from the kind Stalin is that post-war there would've been a return to chiskas and that religion would've had a much heavier hand placed on its shoulder to gently and kindly hint that they should more mindfully practice self-control and limit themselves to the niche they were alloted instead of how our timeline turned out with their steady burgeoning through the decades.