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Great Leader could never be wrong
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this post was submitted on 30 May 2025
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Is this some kind of layered irony? The fuck is he trying to say here?
This was a line actually parroted by some 'loyal Communists' during the Stalinist era who were, themselves, thrown into GULAG. That they must've done something to deserve it, or, otherwise, that their case was a mistake (such mistakes happen, comrade, no big deal!), but everyone else in GULAG deserved it for being reactionary dogs who went against The Party.
Monarchists in every society are hard to stamp out, it would seem - they just regard different finery and titles to be worth kneeling before. "If only the Tsar knew, if only the Great Leader knew!"
The context of the statements gets shown better in The Death of Stalin.
When you can get purged at any time by the state, you say things like this because prison time can quickly turn into a death sentence if you say the wrong thing
"Long live Stalin!" [bang]
At some point, you have to realize that bootlickers really just love the boot that much.
Plenty of GULAG memoirs recount that most people were not licking the boot like that - the people who were already processed and in the camps but still talking like that were true believers - or true sycophants, if there's a difference in this case.