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communism, with 60 of misery for the masses, followed by "western capitalism" which transitioning from communism means the typical oligarchical system of capitalism, which brings more misery to the masses since the wealth is concentrated in only a dozen or so hands.

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They want to use eugenics.

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eugenics, and with it the total eradication of what is deemed deplorable. Behind it all though is a knowledge that the planet can only support so many people, and a nation only so many. I wonder how much of Stalin's thinking was on population pressures and resources when he let the masses starve and sent them to gulags?

I knew a russian guy, in his forties, a technician type. He came out here with his wife to start a new life in Oz. I asked him once about the 'system' over there and how it had to better now that it wasn't a total dictatorship. Now he would not even have been born when old stalin died but he got all defense of the dictator? Spoke of him in glowing tones in fact! I put it down to delayed Stockholm Syndrome and never bothered having another conversation with the guy. These broken people from broken countries are welcome if they play by our rules, but I'm not a psychologist, and life is too short to have their shit dribbling into my head all the time.

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Stalinist terror is what happens when one has to rely on communists to govern a country. Are they all retards? Are they all villains? Poor Joseph just couldn't figure it out.

It isn't widely known, but late Stalin was fighting against his own party to introduce more democracy and capitalism. His reforms reduced the persecution of common people, and he persecuted many of his genocidal party members. It makes sense for common Russian people to appreciate his efforts.

Stalin had failed to kill Khrushchev. He was close, once. Khrushchev was under investigation for the Ukrainian genocide. But he was extremely good at playing a retard, and as a communist leader, Stalin couldn't just execute them all. The few reasonable party members Stalin had managed to find, were disappeared quickly after his death.

Modern communists can't decide what to think about him. While Stalin was one of the most efficient communist leaders, he clearly lacked faith.