Akai Shizuku said:
Darkstar370 said:
Akai Shizuku said:
Darkstar370 said:
Typical communists. They always censor those who disagree with them.
Censorship is blocking comments that disagree with the video and allowing others to stay up. The guy who made the first video just didn't want shit to deal with, since every YouTube video about anything political is going to have loads of bullshit troll comments.
Typical weak excuses. The guy believes that people who disagree with him = trolls
Akai Shizuku said:
Darkstar370 said:
I'm thankful for the brave people that fought against communism.
My country was liberated in 1989 from their tyranny. I know more about them than you.
LOL
The Soviet Union wasn't socialist ever since Stalin died. First it fell into revisionism, and then it was social-imperialist; essentially, it took over other countries much like the U.$. did and used those countries' people and resources to fuel their empire. That's actually a very anti-communist way to go about things, and if you knew a thing about communist ideology you'd know that.
LOL
You know even less than I thought. Stalin was a psychopathic mass murderer. And so was Lenin. Communism never worked in any country.
A lot of that "Stalin was a mass murderer" stuff comes from propaganda first put forth by the Nazis and later by Amerika. I've already posted videos which show why the whole "Stalin was a killer" argument is incorrect. As for communist ideology never working everywhere, it actually worked pretty well in the Soviet Union and China. It's also the only reason why Cuba hasn't collapsed under the U.$. embargo.
A lot of that "Stalin wasn't a mass murderer" stuff comes from propaganda first put forth by the communists and later by ignorant people like in the video that you posted.
Stalin murdered and schemed his way to the leadership of the Soviet Union, an entity that he helped to establish with the other leading Bolsheviks.
Stalin was responsible for the purges and power consolidations that left the USSR militarily weakened when Nazi Germany invaded on June 22, 1941. Fortunately "General Winter" stepped in to save his butt. Prior to World War II, Stalin had many of his best generals and spies shot. Stalin was deeply paranoid and more concerned about the Red Army's loyalty to him alone than their effectiveness as a professional military force. Unfortunately, he did not apply the same distrust to Hitler, his ally from 1939-41: while he did realize that Europe wasn't big enough for two bloodthirsty megalomaniacs, he ignored several warnings about an impending German invasion, thinking he still had more time before the inevitable showdown. As with Hitler, Stalin's personal involvement in military decisions proved disastrous. Many Soviet armies, totaling several million men, were surrounded and destroyed at the outset of the war because they were forbidden from retreating. However, unlike Hitler, Stalin learned to trust his generals as time went by and granted them more leeway. Between the Russian winter, Russian mud, Hitler's incompetence, and the fact that Russians were bull-headed enough to do anything, the USSR managed to survive and beat back Hitler's armies. (Stalin had all of the POWs the Germans had taken shot or sent them to Siberia as spies.)
Stalinism, Uncle Joe's legacy to the world, is a ruthless approach to communism that relies heavily on an all-powerful supreme leader aided by a large body of secret police who "encourage" neighbor to inform on neighbor, purges of any potential adversary to the supreme leader (with emphasis on the comrades who helped him achieve his position in the first place), the imprisonment and murder of intellectuals (liberals), and the occasional mass murder of entire portions of the population. Stalinism also covers the particular approach to economic development which Stalin pursued during his rule. It relies on complete state control and central planning of all economic activity and tries to achieve rapid development of the nation's heavy industry. The Soviet Union did indeed see rapid industrial growth under the first five-year-plans, but this came at a heavy price: the necessary capital had to be somehow squeezed out of an agrarian society, adding to the misery of Soviet peasants. Forced collectivization and resistance to it resulted in millions of deaths and a huge drop in Soviet agricultural production, which in turn led to the famines of the 1930s.