I'm very confused by this thread lol, but yeah, Stalin gets a bad rap. He was pretty shitty on a personal level, especially with the that instance of pedophilia...but he wasn't anywhere near as bad as the other world leaders at the time. Socialism in Russia was steadily progressing under his leadership.
The fact that Stalin is remembered is primarily because Kruschev's revisionism tried to pin everything on Stalin without acknowledging the fact that a huge amount of the progress made under him was through the mass of the party, not Stalin himself.
I know you hadn't asked, but here's also an article Mao wrote on Khrushchev and the state of the USSR at the time
lol, but I did ask tho.
I'm very confused by this thread lol, but yeah, Stalin gets a bad rap. He was pretty shitty on a personal level, especially with the that instance of pedophilia...but he wasn't anywhere near as bad as the other world leaders at the time. Socialism in Russia was steadily progressing under his leadership.
The fact that Stalin is remembered is primarily because Kruschev's revisionism tried to pin everything on Stalin without acknowledging the fact that a huge amount of the progress made under him was through the mass of the party, not Stalin himself.
Castro had some good analysis of the subject