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[–] CrimsonSage@hexbear.net 61 points 10 months ago (5 children)

The more I learn about khrushchev the more I wonder about the competency of stalin for not purging the doofus.

[–] Frank@hexbear.net 37 points 10 months ago (1 children)

More and more people are saying this.

[–] Salmarez@hexbear.net 28 points 10 months ago

Khrushchev: "What do you think was Stalin's biggest failure?" ‎

Hoxha(?): "Not getting rid of you!"

[–] DayOfDoom@hexbear.net 33 points 10 months ago (1 children)

He was literally the best communist leader of his era.

[–] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 32 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's called the great patriotic war. Over 27 million people were murdered. In the war to save the motherland, nobody was made an exception to not take to the battlefield, not even the Communist party.

Not even mentioning people can at different points of their life be positive figures for socialism and at other points detractors to socialism. We can point to W.E.B Du Bois whom spent the majority of his life as a FDR-esque progressive and imperialism appreciator waited until he was moments from his death bed for his material conditions to lead him into understanding Marxism-Leninism was the correct ideological path. The inverse of being a positive actor for socialism then the conditions that a person finds themselves in can change them into a bad actor, detractor, or worse against socialism.

[–] CrimsonSage@hexbear.net 22 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yes, but have you considered "corn man bad"?

[–] comrade_pibb@hexbear.net 10 points 10 months ago
[–] Dolores@hexbear.net 20 points 10 months ago

khruschev used the purge to get into his position, exactly the problem with a mass hysteria not tempered with procedural obstacles. talented opportunists have a field day.