https://www.reddit.com/r/ENLIGHTENEDCENTRISM/comments/16xyb3m/fighting_the_allied_forces_during_ww2_as_a/k3ax320/?context=3

I dont totally know the history here but just to be clear, the Red Army did this no more than the Western allies did correct?

  • autismdragon [he/him, comrade/them]
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    9 months ago

    My friend who brought me to the ML side of things (i still technically call myself a Luxembourgist but whatever, I'm effectively an ML at this point) told me that the thing with the Doctor's plot is that it was genuinly kind of a legitimate bad on Stalin's part, but it wasn't motivated by genuine antisemitism, just old man paranoia. But idk thats a sourceless claim from a third party I bet someone else will come along with something better.

    • Vncredleader [he/him]
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      9 months ago

      Espresso Stalinist has their flaws, but they hosted an interesting write-up about it https://espressostalinist.com/2014/08/24/the-doctors-plot/

      Riumin's actions seem really suspect throughout the events

      edit: oh and here is Bill Bland's book on the topic. https://www.marxists.org/archive/bland/1991/10/doctors-case-death-stalin.pdf

      I will say the "rootless cosmopolitanism" campaign is pretty tropey and gross