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.
Not seen anyone bring this up but there was this one time where Lenin wanted to set up a meeting with Stalin about his brutality in Georgia. So Stalin rolls his eyes and says “Alright, we can have a meeting at 10am tomorrow” and Lenin was like “Okay.” And Stalin said “10am. Don’t fucking forget it.” And Lenin said “I won’t.” 11am rolls around and finally Stalin shows up. Made Lenin wait an hour. And at this point Lenin was pretty miffed but he didn’t want to say anything because he just wanted to get the meeting over with but before he could open his mouth Stalin splashed his scalding hot coffee on Lenin and yelled, “Don’t play ball in my yard, chico–” obviously this was in Russian but he did use the Spanish word chico. “Don’t play ball in my yard, chico, 'cause I got balls enough for both of us.” then he stormed out. Just really petty and unprofessional