This talking point is so popular, yet not a single tankie can be bothered to do a quick search to learn what CIA meant by "collective leadership". Spoiler: it doesn't mean worker democracy or anything similar. I had a link somewhere to a CIA document with the actual meaning - a "dictatorship by committee", a party oligarchy.
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And stalin sent his own son to the gulag.
Go back to .ml
I’m going to take advantage of OP’s decision to share info on a piece of shit dictator, with some information of my own-
For starters… While one could say he was a massive homicidal chode, one could also say that both things can be true. He can be seen as one of the most bloodthirsty tyrants ever, and he can be seen as whatever it is that bootlicking tankies want him to be.
And for those not in the know, it’s never a bad idea to read up the human shaped bucket of shit that these people want you to believe is worthy of hero worship.
Of course, they’ll tell you that proven recorded history is a lie- and then direct you to a quote from the CIA- an institution belonging to the government of a country they routinely accuse of lying and propaganda.
Are posts like these just rage bait at this point? I mean, this has to be a troll... right?
"The present situation is the most favorable from the point of view of upsetting the Communist dictatorship since the death of Stalin."
What could this possibly mean? /s
Some of the people who hate Stalin the most are communists because of how he betrayed the revolution.
Just sayin'.
Stalin was a POS who brought authoritarianism and state capitalism instead of the social anarchy they were expecting. Fuck the Bolsheviks.
The EU is all we need. Fuck Russia
It ain't just liberals who say that.