To all full-grown hexbears, NO DUNKING IN MY THREAD…ONLY TEACH, criminal scum who violate my Soviet will be banned three days and called a doo doo head…you have been warned
To all full-grown hexbears, NO DUNKING IN MY THREAD…ONLY TEACH, criminal scum who violate my Soviet will be banned three days and called a doo doo head…you have been warned
I’m not saying I could have necessarily done better and I understand the historical and material conditions the Soviet Union was in before and even during WW2. It deserves our eternal respect and gratitude for what it accomplished by defeating fascism for us all to be able to continue to live. Revolutions need to be defended but what the Soviet Union and the Red Army did went beyond all expectations and as a result has reserved its place among the greatest nations of all time.
But, that being said, that wasn’t my question and yet is exactly why it’s so difficult to ask and learn about. This is why I tried to immediately make reassurances about my question and position on Soviet Union.
I wrote all that and just realized that I misread your initial post lol. Anyway I’m leaving the comment up in case people are interested.
We do know that there are fabrications in Khrushchev’s denunciation of Stalin at the XX Congress, but to really tell apart truth from fiction would be very difficult given how many decades it had been and how much of the official documents had been “revised” or expelled to demonize Stalin.
You may be interested in reading Losurdo’s Stalin biography (a new English translation has just been released and I believe it’s free) that might address some of your questions.
Hahaha No worries at all. I appreciate you being honest about it and not doubling down, at least. Thank you for that!
And, yeah, it makes sense it’s difficult to know at this point given everything. I’ll check out that biography. Thanks!