Liberals: “Stalin was a brutal dictator!” (lemmy.ml)

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/29149379

Source: https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP80-00810A006000360009-0.pdf

Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20210422203252/https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP80-00810A006000360009-0.pdf

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[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

I've legit had capitalist bootlickers say that "The CIA didn't conclude that Stalin wasn't a dictator, just that he didn't have absolute power!"

These stupid ass crakkkers completely miss the point, that of course the CIA will still slander Stalin, socialism, and the USSR. They'll never say that Stalin was a cool, misunderstood heroic guy. The point is that even in internal, secret documents for CIA personnel, the fact remains even they admit that Stalin wasn't a dictator.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

They didn't admit that Stalin wasn't a dictator, though. That's what I'm getting at. The document makes no such claim and is itself just a report by an unevaluated anonymous source rather than an official statement by the organisation as a whole. In plenty of other declassified CIA documents (including official memos), it is argued in great length that Stalin was a dictator

If you want to argue that Stalin wasn't a dictator, then be my guest, but to claim that the CIA itself acknowledged this is a falsehood

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