Me in 2014: Stalin was an evil dictator whose harsh methods were not justified

Me in 2024: Stalin was soft. And we’re all paying for it.

Sorry, Joe.

that’s a fun angle for some agitprop. tell people about the exploits of young stalin using his given name and then you can hit them with an actually verified “and that young bankrobber’s name? josef stalin”

I’m working on a 5 year plan.

Me in 2014: Stalin was an evil dictator whose harsh methods were not justified

Me in 2024: Stalin was soft. And we’re all paying for it.

Sorry, Joe.

Where was that letter that Lenin wrote that said something like Stalin was too soft?

And yes, if the Red Army wasn’t exhausted and war weary they absolutely should have denazified all of Europe, and if Stalin wasn’t such a big softie maybe the combined efforts of the PVA and Red Army aviation would have led to a unified Korea, leaving the PLA open to retake Taiwan. And if he purged all the capitalist roaders harder maybe the USSR wouldn’t have fallen to revisionism.

This is all wishful thinking, can’t change history, but maybe through the power of friendship we can purge even harder than ever before.

There are days when I wake up wishing I could scour the Earth with a flaming sword

So yeah, I get it

:do-it:

For you, it was the day that you decided you would make Stalin look like an anarchist. For me, it was Tuesday.

Only on days ending in Y

All the time.

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All the time.