>industrialized Russia >stabilized the entire Soviet Union >Purged all Leon Trotsky warmongering jews >educates Russians >literacy rate at 99% >everyone has work and a roof on their head >ends mass starvations caused by incompetent monarchs >Creates a personality cult around >destroys Nazis even though they killed more than 20 million civilians >skyrockets Russia from an irrelvant shithole to the worlds strongest nation >establishes the Soviet Union as the legitmate Russian goverment >free healthcare >funds scientists all across the country >is regarded as a lowly peasant from the other nations but doesn't give a fuck >rebuilds all of eastern europe >pushes for the idea of slavic brotherhood >ends imperialism >ends corrupt organized religion >retakes all of Russias former territory
>retakes all of Russias former territory Finland&concessions to Turkey after WWI not regained, pushed Turkey in NATO when tried to get Turkish Armenia. >rebuilds all of eastern europe Nope, it basically was done by based hohol Khrushchev. >ends corrupt organized religion Supported Russian Orthodoxy. After WWII gave them temples of Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Churches and supported "reunification" of it with Russian Church, Western Ukraine had the biggest amount of operating temples in USSR as a result. >funds scientists all across the country not funds, gulags >ends mass starvations caused by incompetent monarchs introduces them either by incompetence or deliberately to exterminate other nations in USSR
Else is relatively correct, but Napoleon was definitely more based.
Joshua Jenkins
>Stalin had left the Soviet Union in an unenviable state when he died. At least 2.5 million people languished in prison and in labor camps, science and the arts had been subjugated to socialist realism, and agriculture productivity on the whole was meager. The country had only one quarter of the livestock it had had in 1928 and in some areas, there were fewer animals than there had been at the start of World War I. Private plots accounted for at least three quarters of meat, dairy, and produce output. Living standards were low and consumer goods scarce. Moscow was also remarkably isolated and friendless on the international stage; Eastern Europe excluding Yugoslavia was held to the Soviet yoke by military occupation and soon after Stalin's death, revolts would break out everywhere. China paid homage to the departed Soviet leader, but held a series of grudges that would soon boil over. The United States had military bases and nuclear-equipped bomber aircraft surrounding the Soviet Union on three sides, and American aircraft regularly overflew Soviet territory on reconnaissance missions and to parachute agents in. Although the Soviet authorities shot down many of these aircraft and captured most of the agents dropped onto their soil, the psychological effect was immense.
>American fears of Soviet military and especially nuclear capabilities were strong and heavily exaggerated; Moscow's only heavy bomber, the Tu-4, was a direct clone of the B-29 and had no way to get to the United States except on a one way suicide mission and the Soviet nuclear arsenal contained only a handful of weapons.
Gabriel Cruz
>based hohol Khrushchev бэйзeд кyкхoл хpyщёв пo вceй eвpoпe oтcpoил тo, чтo ты accoцииpyeшь c coвкoм и дeпpeccиeй, дypaчoк caмoe бoльшoe и кpacивoe здaниe в пoльшe к пpимepy былo cпpoeктиpoвaнo и нaчaтa пocтpoйкa пpи cтaлинe
>There were desultory negotiations for a US loan after the war that came to nothing. In the last resort, Stalin had to rely on the sweat of the Russian people. There was work for the millions demobilized from the Soviet army. During the war, there had been some ideological relaxation. Now there was a return to orthodoxy. Stalin had not mellowed in old age--coercion resumed and an army of forced labor was herded into the Gulag Archipelago, the vast network of labor camps east of Moscow. Hundreds of thousands labeled as traitors were transported from the Baltic States, which had been occupied in 1940; many more from all over the USSR were also deported to virtual slavery. The Communist Party was allowed to reemerge as Stalin's instrument of control over Soviet society. There was rigid ideological censorship of science and all forms of culture, even of composers. The party exploited to the maximum the labor of the peasants and the workers. Military heroes were relegated to the status of ordinary citizens.
>The last decade of Stalin's rule was stifling. Terror returned. Stalin's Soviet Union was a country of immense hardship. Nascent internal nationalism was savagely crushed, but could never be entirely suppressed. Jewish national feelings, especially after the foundation of Israel, drew world attention to another aspect of Soviet persecution. Rights taken for granted in the West did not exist in Stalin's Russia.
Luke Ward
>A new five year plan was inaugurated in 1946. Enormous difficulties had to be overcome. Soviet statistics need to be treated with caution, but expert Western evaluation confirms that there was a remarkable recovery of Soviet heavy industry, coal, iron and steel, cement, oil, electricity, and transport. As in the 1930s, Stalin's economic plans gave precedence to heavy industry at the expense of consumer goods, so living standards recovered only to a rudimentary level. Draconian labor laws deprived workers of all freedom and exposed them to punishment for lateness or drunkenness. Heavy burdens were laid particularly on the peasantry--the collectives were more tightly regulated and the private plots of peasants were taken away. In 1947, collectivization was extended to the former Baltic states of Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia. But agricultural production, unlike industrial activity, hardly recovered from wartime lows. Food was forcibly taken from the peasantry for ridiculously low prices. There was widespread famine in Ukraine in 1946-47. By 1952, grain and potato harvests had still not returned to prewar levels. The failure of collective agriculture remained a permanent feature of the Soviet economy.
>Stalin feared that the Soviet army, as it advanced westward, would become aware of the much higher standard of living enjoyed by the "fascists" and capitalists. The success of Soviet propaganda depended on keeping the Russian peoples away from Western contact. Fraternization with local populations was therefore severely limited where it was allowed to occur at all. Within the Soviet Union, rigid censorship about the outside world continued and a distorted picture of Western hostility and hate was propagated. "Bourgeois" culture was condemned as decadent and everything Soviet praised as superior. The party and Stalin's leadership were glorified for winning the war.
Robert Powell
>Stalin's postwar revenge was indiscriminate. The victims of Yalta, those Russians who were forcibly repatriated by the British and Americns after the war from the zones of occupation, were lucky if they ended up in the Gulag Archipelago. Others were simply shot. But these thousands of men, women, and children were just the tip of the iceberg. Whole national groups such as the Muslim Tatars and Kalmycks were deported with great brutality from the Caucasus when it was reoccupied by Soviet armies in 1943-44. Possibly more than one million people were collectively punished and deported. Stalin's ferocity exposed his fanatical determination to wipe out any danger to "Russian" communist power and Soviet unity from within. The years up to Stalin's death in 1953 were as brutal as the 1930s had been. Stalin ruled by coercion and terror--he was omnipresent, yet totally remote, never meeting the Russian people face to face. His character was in Khrushchev's words "capricious and despotic", brutal tendencies that only increased as his faculties weakened in his old age. Yet he never lacked henchmen and supporters for his policies, policies that no one man could have carried through alone. Coercion and terror formed one essential element; the other was compliance. To this end, Stalin's immediate helpers received material benefits; for the rest of the population, socialist idealism was perverted by propaganda. An army of slave laborers in the Gulag Archipelago, housed there for one reason or another, arbitrary or not, provided the forced labor needed for Soviet recovery.
Justin Davis
I AM VOLGA GERMAN
Jace Perez
>Leaves out the part where they run out of all the smarter people's money and it rapidly fails.
Andrew Thompson
>implying thats a not a good thing
Lucas Butler
>industrializes Russia, kills several millions of peasants during retarded collectivization in process >kills several millions of people in gulags during industrialization >removes NEP, destroys all rich peasants, causes the biggest famine for last 100 years >kills a lot of loyal and efficient generals, scientists and other people >destroys nazis with losing a shitton of population
I think you're trolling, Stalin wasn't the worst red, but he was pretty bad, like all of them.
>destroys nazis with losing a shitton of population It was his brilliant idea to send troops into Berlin to take the city in street fighting instead of surrounding it with artillery and bombarding it.
Austin Gonzalez
a no, Luigi, that's a not a good thing
Nolan Bennett
Russian lives are cheap. While artillery shells are expensive.
Brody Rodriguez
I am not talking about Berlin. Most of losses we suffered happened in 1941-1943, when our tactics were really fucking retarded and we were losing like millions of people in encirclements and pointless attacks.
Justin Morales
t. subhuman western cocksucker
Matthew Green
Not true, Soviet command was umprepared for the suprise nazi attack, and most casualties were civilians because nazis were cruel and pathetic only attacking the weak
Daniel Powell
I wish we could have a leader like that desu
Brandon Jenkins
You live in a western country so you are the cocksucker, cocksucker. Why don't you go back to Saratov?
All industrialization literally occured on the blood of innocent peasants. The UK stripped Ireland and India of resorces and caused some of the largest famines in human history, killing up to 70 million people. Even in the UK itself, the average life expectancy of a Victorian factory worker was 7 and they worked from the age of 5 in incredibly dangerous conditions. It isn't a lie that Stalin killed millions, it is a lie that others did not. Industrialization around the wotld was paid by the blood of millions. Btw, Stalin's YSSR and Victorian England actually had fairly similiar life expectancy and worker conditions, but one is romanticized because of the 5 percent "middle class" that lived "well" (still poisoned by arsenic wallpaper and opium medication) while the other is demonized out of politics (even through Stalinist USSR also had a small "middle class" of party officials and paid professioals in major cities).
Commie spammer who admits communist regimes killed countless people? Then again, no surprise, everything left of Hitler is communism to mutts.
Yeah Stalin is responsible for Nazi massacres in 1943 Ukraine, If that bong actually had a brain he'd quote life expectancy of Ukraine in 1933 when it was around 9 years due to famine.
But I know you mutts don't know any nuance and you and other Angloes never did anything wrong. You are not even human, do you realize there are other political positions than commie and fash?
Russia loves your political polarization, keep playing into their hands.
Carter Morales
Not since Peter the Great anyway.
Juan Ortiz
Whataboutism is all that they have.
>Stalin starved and imprisoned millio.. >butbutbut you used to not let blacks drink from a water fountain
Stalin was the ultimate reason the Soviet Union failed because he killed off anyone with any intelligence who could actually run the country and after his time, all that was left were empty-headed hacks.
Nicholas Green
This. The great purges were an unmitigated disaster for the USSR, and set it irrevirsibly on the path to autocracy and collapse.
The purges in the 1930s resulted in such men of intelligence and vision as Brezhnev rising to high places.
>hhhyeah let's spend all our money on weapons we don't need and geopolitical dick measuring contests while people have to stand in line for hours to buy the one potato in the store
Ian Cruz
Multiple times.
Don't give me shit about whataboutism, it is valid when you made Stalin and Hitler the ultimate symbols of human evil while covering up bloody A*glo crimes.
