The book is called ‘Stalin: Russia’s man of steel by marrin’ I decided to open it to a random page and this is what I found
Censorship is good if it prevents garbage like this being printed cmv
I thought the same thing today when I saw a book trying to make the argument that Hitler and Stalin were basically the same.
Proletarian states censorship IS good. You cant change my mind. Dont even try. Liars dont deserve the right to speak.
You should respond to whoever gave you that book like this: “Thank you for giving me this book. It did change my mind about Stalin. I now think he’s even better than I thought he was before.”
Me before reading rightwing books: Critical support for Stalin.
He hated him as a Jew
A textbook example of bad lib grammar, which makes it unclear whether
- Stalin hated Trotsky because Trotsky was Jewish, or
- Stalin hated Trotsky because he (Stalin) was Jewish.
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It plays that card perfectly though imo. If can mean exactly whatever you need it to mean so you can hate Stalin. If the reader is a Fascist this plays into “Jews bad” narrative. If the reader is a lib it plays into the “Stalin was as bad at Hitler” bullshit.
You see, when Stalin was a Jew he hated Trotsky, but since he converted they he fell in love
Reply to an Inquiry of the Jewish News Agency in the United States
National and racial chauvinism is a vestige of the misanthropic customs characteristic of the period of cannibalism. Anti-semitism, as an extreme form of racial chauvinism, is the most dangerous vestige of cannibalism.
Anti-semitism is of advantage to the exploiters as a lightning conductor that deflects the blows aimed by the working people at capitalism. Anti-semitism is dangerous for the working people as being a false path that leads them off the right road and lands them in the jungle.
Hence Communists, as consistent internationalists, cannot but be irreconcilable, sworn enemies of anti-semitism. In the U.S.S.R. anti-semitism is punishable with the utmost severity of the law as a phenomenon deeply hostile to the Soviet system. Under U.S.S.R. law active anti-semites are liable to the death penalty."
- J. Stalin January 12, 1931
www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1931/01/12.htm
Funny how people always recommend anecdotic books in order to debunk Stalin.
Intellectual leftist around me do it. Books like ‘Gulag archipelago’. When you counter with actual statistics and historic facts, they just ignore you. Just read the CIA-funded book bro.
“Gulag archipelago” is such a good source of information that even Russian libs who like making shit up just to fight communism are distancing themselves from this book.
I haven’t read Archipelago, but I did read (years ago) The First Circle. Even if you take everything in that book at face value, it still portrays something leagues better than any American prison.
Sorry I’m confused. Is @DankZedong@lemmygrad.ml praising the book or condemning it? It was written by a Marxist-Leninist, embraced by Putin, taught in the Russian public school system since 2009, and is very critical of Stalin and the gulags (the author spent 8 years in a gulag)
I am not a fan of the book, no.
I can’t help but notice the lack of citations here, hmmmmmm
1 Trust me bro.
² Conversation on my WhatsApp group
3 r/historymemes
Looks like something that would come out of the “infinite monkeys on infinite typewriters given infinite time” thought experiment.
I think it was meant to be used as toilet paper
Bruh moment
wow, classic! Make Stalin look like hitler!
libs really aren’t very original are they?
Are they implying Stalin’s a jew like it’s a bad thing?
No, they’re saying he hated Trotsky because Trotsky was jewish.
It’ll be great for starting your fireplace or charcoal BBQ!
