Given that this community has generally positive view of Stalin, I’m curious what he did that my comrades find irredeemable or out of line. Since it’s easy to criticize the Soviet Union from a western perspective, bonus points if you explain how this was detrimental to the development of socialism and/or communism.
I think that Luna Oi had mentioned on her channel before that initially Stalin didn’t support Ho Chi Minh and wanted Mao to support them instead. This is not the worst mistake on his part, but it set back the Revolution in Vietnam a bit. Also not sure if anyone else mentioned it but his family life was not great. Stalin was a powerful man in every sense of the word, and sometimes that affected the relationships of those close to him in a negative way.
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