Forming the Stalin Battalion!
Some instances we federate with have free account creation and some people use that to instantly post on Lemmygrad (like 2 days old accounts with comments only on Lemmygrad type of stuff)
I give you my blessing to dunk on those people when you see them, go as hard as you need (within reason).
But remember: people that are reasonable should receive the same too. I’m talking about pure trolls who know what they’re doing.
Then don’t forget to report them and we’ll ban them.
If we mobilise a front to counter trolls, I assure you they will stop soon enough because we take the fun out of it.
Quite possibly the most based take in a series of absolutely based takes🫡Best of luck to anyone who finds an Anti-Stalin/Anti-AES bastard on this platform. Lemmygrad🤝Anti-Revisionism
I suggest we all agree Stalin was no superhero and no villain, he just did what he did. He allowed for the insane levels of industrialization and has shown himself as a strong leader during the WWII, but he also held authoritarian grip on power, held political and other prisoners in inhumane conditions, and was the one to make LGBT illegal in the USSR.
Stop glorifying or demonizing him, that’s all I’m saying. The rest is true.
Stalin’s “authoritarian” grip on power was denied by him multiple times. He didn’t want to continue being leader and was voted in anyways. The gulag shit is easily debunked by the simple fact that neary 40% of prisoners in the gulags were released yearly. Not to mention that it ended in the 50s. His LGBTQ policies could have been much better, I understand that, but there’s nothing wrong for admiring Stalin for the hero he was to the working class. Idk if you’re trying to do this in good faith, but I get more than enough anti-Stalin crap already, I don’t like seeing that shit here too
I could answer by mentioning lack of democratic process and about self-proliferating structures of power that held him, as well as atrocities of GULAG (and the point wasn’t the sentence duration, but conditions in the camps), but that misses my core point.
The point is - endless praising of Stalin as some sort of superhero is basically a prerequisite for personality cult - something that Lenin has openly warned us from (and ironically got an even bigger cult himself).
Stalin is a leader, and in many ways, an excellent one. But turning him into a flawless genius of socialism and barking at any attempt to mention any flaws in his policies doesn’t promote a healthy discussion and turns otherwise reasonable left movement into a self-contained cult.