Liberals: "Stalin was not a brutal dictator"
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If you are interested government efficiency, or technocracy, have a look at Joseph Stalin’s regime in the old Soviet Union.
Stalin was obsessed withe government efficiency and progress.
"An executive body representing #Crimea’s #Tatar minority has vowed to oppose any international recognition of the #Moscow-occupied #Ukrainian peninsula as part of #Russia"
https://tvpworld.com/86307693/tatars-vow-to-oppose-any-recognition-of-crimea-as-part-of-russia
Focus on that word 'minority'
For those who don't know, there is a specific, historically recent reason why Tatars are a minority in their own land
#Stalin forcibly evicted them:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deportation_of_the_Crimean_Tatars
And remember Russia has applied this method systematically for centuries
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"... forced them to withdraw from Russia. They could even occasionally defeat the rearguards of the retreating Nazis. They could conquer Berlin and Vienna when the American airplanes had smashed the German defences. When the Americans had crushed the Japanese, the Russians could quietly stab them in the back." -- Ludwig von Mises, Planned Chaos.
https://mises.org/library/book/planned-chaos
#russia #europe #stalin #lenin #mises #socialism
Mises InstitutePlanned Chaos | Mises InstituteThis new edition of Planned Chaos features a new introduction by Chris Westley of Jacksonville State University. The introduction brings this classic up to date
#Harvard
#Fascist #Alignment of #Education
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#Trump coming for #Harvard makes utter sense:
1) It is almost exactly how the #Nazis took over all branches of the #WeimarRepublic in the 1930's
2) All revolutionaries come for the university students, because they usually constitute the leaders for future opposition (e. g. #Mao, #Stalin,...)
Controlling #Education is indispensable:
https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/114191854138931406
3) If you are among dangerous people that you need to...
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👉The #DumbingOfAmerica: The #StultificationOfThePeople👈 1)
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After #Reagan successfully started with the dismantling of higher education for the not-well-to-do as part of #Reagonomics 2), the extremist part of #Republicans called #AmericaFirst in the 1930's and 40's, and now #MAGA are now going a step further by axing primary/2ndary ed., and the #Alignment (#Gleichschaltung) 3) of the #Education system through #MAGA-controlled state bodies.
#TheStultificationOfAmerica
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Why are tankies so blind to what they’re doing? How can they worship dictators like the Kim dynasty, Stalin, Mao Zedong, Castro, Maduro, and vanguards like the CPSU?
It doesn’t make sense, if you want the working class to be free, why are you idolizing authoritarian rulers?
What the hell is happening here? This blind devotion and cult-like behavior is downright insane.
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…language is very important. When the state carries out #criminal #terror against its own people, it calls them “criminals” or “terrorists.” During the 1930s, this was the normal practice. Looking back, we refer to #Stalin’s “Great Terror,” but at the time it was the Stalinists who controlled the language. Today in Berlin stands an important museum called "Topography of Terror"; during the era it documents, it was the Jews & the chosen enemies of the regime who were called "terrorists."
#Stalin hatte panische Angst vor Attentaten. Daher engagierte man einen #Doppelgänger. Dieser vertrat den sowjetischen Staatschef sogar bei Paraden auf dem Roten Platz.
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I am driven by my emotions.
"Our opinions generally have emotional rather than intellectual roots, and indeed rationality largely functions as a post hoc justification. Our political opinions, ultimately, are what we feel about the world, not what we think about it. And in turn, our opinions about particular events have a lot to do with how we feel about the world in general. It’s not an exaggeration to say that most people’s views about the kind of things that happen today are extensions of concerns of their own ego. And consequently, invitations to change their minds because new facts emerge, or because old ideas are discredited by new evidence, are in fact a threat to the strength and even survival of that ego."
"But few people, especially those who have received a decent education, want to acknowledge that their views are based on emotion and not reason. They therefore try to argue".
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#Russia is failing it's people
#soldiers running #Amok
#militaryservice = #deathsentence
#brutality of #dictator #stalin fan #Putin has destroyed #Russia
"How can you compare a dick to a watchtower?"
Part 2 of Stalin: History and Critique of a Black Legend by Domenico Losurdo.
The first part of Stalin: The History and Critique of a Black Legend by Domenico Losurdo.
#communism #stalin
I fucking love public archives. You can poke around in them and find shit like Goblin Stalin in high definition.
#stalin #archives #libraries #china(?) #highdefinitiongoblinstalin
Stalin e Trockij, due capi erano troppi
Una cancellazione brutale 
https://wp.me/pey833-6NU
La cancel culture non usa solo le forbici e l'oblio. A volte, quando niente sembra bastare, può venire utile una picozza da ghiaccio. Leon Bronstein, detto Trotsky era troppo ingombrante per la nuova Urss di Stalin e dovette sperimentarlo di persona.
#storia #history #urss #stalin #trotsky #dittatori
Una cancellazione brutale https://wp.me/pey833-6NULa cancel culture non usa solo le forbici e l'oblio. A volte, quando niente sembra bastare, può venire utile una picozza da ghiaccio. Leon Bronstein, detto Trotsky era troppo ingombrante per la nuova Urss di Stalin e dovette sperimentarlo di persona.
#storia #history #urss #stalin #trotsky #dittatori
20 Lessons from the 20th Century About How to Defend #Democracy from #Authoritarianism, According to Yale #Historian #TimothySnyder
in History | January 20th, 2017
"Timothy Snyder, Housum Professor of History at Yale University, is one of the foremost scholars in the U.S. and Europe on the rise and fall of #totalitarianism during the 1930s and 40s. Among his long list of appointments and publications, he has won multiple awards for his recent international bestsellers '#Bloodlands: Europe between #Hitler and #Stalin' and last year’s 'Black Earth: The #Holocaust as History and Warning.' That book in part makes the argument that #Nazism wasn’t only a #German #nationalist movement but had global #colonialist origins—in #Russia, #Africa, and in the #UnitedStates, the nation that pioneered so many methods of human extermination, #racist #dehumanization, and ideologically-justified #LandGrabs.
"The hyper-#capitalism portrayed in the U.S.—even during the Depression—Snyder writes, fueled Hitler’s imagination, such that he promised Germans 'a life comparable to that of the American people,' whose 'racially pure and uncorrupted' German population he described as 'world class.' Snyder describes Hitler’s ideology as a myth of racialist struggle in which 'there are really no values in the world except for the stark reality that we are born in order to take things from other people.' Or as we often hear these days, that acting in accordance with this principle is the 'smart' thing to do. Like many far right figures before and after, Hitler aimed to restore a state of nature that for him was a perpetual state of race war for imperial dominance."
https://www.openculture.com/2017/01/20-lessons-from-the-20th-century-about-how-to-defend-democracies-from-authoritarianism.html
#History #Histodon #Hitler #Fascism #Authoritarianism #HyperCapitalism #CorporateFascism #CorporateColonialism
Open Culture20 Lessons from the 20th Century About How to Defend Democracy from Authoritarianism, According to Yale Historian Timothy SnyderTimothy Snyder, Housum Professor of History at Yale University, is one of the foremost scholars in the U.S. and Europe on the rise and fall of totalitarianism during the 1930s and 40s.
one of the biggest, most impactful and also dumbest overlooks (or sins?) of the west world is you guys missed to condemn and denounce #communism, #lenin and #stalin the way you did with hitler and nazism. #russia never paid the way germany did. they’re never shamed for what they brought on half of #europe the way germans are for wwII.
it seems many still fail to see how alike and even the same they are.
and history repeats itself. and that’s one of my greatest fears. honestly.