If you actually read Stalin in context, with an understanding of the terms he is using, this quote makes perfect sense. In fact, the idea put forward in this quote is not original, it comes from Lenin. Worst thing Stalin ever did is be way to soft on Roosevelt and dissolve the Communist International.
Well, I disagree with Lenin on that thing too, but Lenin was more of an 85-15 guy.
Also he had reasons to be soft on Roosevelt, because Roosevelt was helping to send the USSR aid during the war, and its not wise to piss off the guy helping you.
Just saying, you can't separate Stalin from Lenin or Marxism in general, as many try to do. If you disagree with Marxism, then that's a whole other thing. The thing with being soft on Roosevelt is that it slid into the realm of carelessness rather than a strategic thing.
If FDR lived for the rest of his term into the post-war I'm assuming he was planning on strengthening ties with the Soviet Union and assisting them in rebuilding and leaving Germany a ruin. If he pulled this off, do you think it would have led to a more powerful independent Soviet Union or would it have allowed the U.S. to covertly liberalize it? Or maybe made communism more palapatle to people in the U.S.? seems like we could have entered a vastly different historical trajectory, not sure if good or bad for socialism though.
Can we apply the dengist 70-30 percent principle to Stalin?
If you actually read Stalin in context, with an understanding of the terms he is using, this quote makes perfect sense. In fact, the idea put forward in this quote is not original, it comes from Lenin. Worst thing Stalin ever did is be way to soft on Roosevelt and dissolve the Communist International.
“Worst thing Stalin ever did” :side-eye-1: :side-eye-2:
Have we done the grooming discourse yet
Stalin was the first discord mod
Well, I disagree with Lenin on that thing too, but Lenin was more of an 85-15 guy.
Also he had reasons to be soft on Roosevelt, because Roosevelt was helping to send the USSR aid during the war, and its not wise to piss off the guy helping you.
Just saying, you can't separate Stalin from Lenin or Marxism in general, as many try to do. If you disagree with Marxism, then that's a whole other thing. The thing with being soft on Roosevelt is that it slid into the realm of carelessness rather than a strategic thing.
i know, even lenin tried.
Lol gottem
Being harsh on your direct ally isn’t productive
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Juche necromancy was discovered too late to save him :deeper-sadness:
If FDR lived for the rest of his term into the post-war I'm assuming he was planning on strengthening ties with the Soviet Union and assisting them in rebuilding and leaving Germany a ruin. If he pulled this off, do you think it would have led to a more powerful independent Soviet Union or would it have allowed the U.S. to covertly liberalize it? Or maybe made communism more palapatle to people in the U.S.? seems like we could have entered a vastly different historical trajectory, not sure if good or bad for socialism though.
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