It’s really refreshing to see a criticism of Stalin (and the Bolsheviks more broadly) that goes beyond the token “criticisms” tankie spaces usually make (e.g. Stalin shouldn’t have stopped at Berlin, the mass relocations were bad but totally not unforced atrocities, etc.) while also not falling into the shitlib “Stalin was literally Hitler who fusion danced with Hitler to form a double Hitler and do hella genocide” kind of shit.