From the book “Stalin” the seminal work of Historian Domenico Losurdo
It is incontestable that Stalin raised the standard of living. The Russian people don’t go hungry.
If you showed a lib this quote without context they’d cry “tankie”
Your average lib’s view of Stalin is to the right of Hitler’s
Libs would twist this into “red fash tankies literally quoting Hitler to justify Stalinist Russia” or something
Exactly like the classic fallacy they love to use:
Lib cites public CIA talking point as proof we need to bomb X country. You say, “The CIA lies about this stuff all the time, here’s an internal CIA memo where they discuss lying and controlling the media to generate fervor and consent for killing these other people” The lib says, “Aha, so the CIA isn’t a trustworthy source but you’re citing them here”
This way they can A. Dismiss criticism against CIA B. Maintain that the CIA is a trustworthy source. C. Prevent you from citing the CIA despite them supposedly believing it is trustworthy (when it says stuff they like).
Unlike modern libs, Hitler had to engage in the material reality of Russia on some level because he was fighting a war against it, rather than just going off of vibes and half-remembered Red Scare propaganda
Yes, this is an awful thing phased as a good one. “The standard of living in russia in 1950 was so incredibly low, that not even an entire world war made all that much of a difference in the standard of livng.”
DAE PENSIONS AND SOCIAL SAFETY NETS = LOW STANDARD OF LIVING HURR
Least illiterate neoliberal
Yeah have you ever lived in the USSR? Have you ever been to a post soviet country? Yeah…
According to family legends my great-grandfather a veteran from ww1 refused to fight the soviets for this very same reason and immediately ran back home after being drafted.
Dynasty Warriors but it’s the Eastern Front and you play as Stalin
How is it possible? How could this happen?
