Deportation of Wolga Germans based on ethnicity instead if class
Outlawing homosexual partnerships between men
That he didn't support the popular front in the Spanish civil war more
Stopping after Berlin
Stopping before Tokyo
Only the first 2 are big mistakes imo
Great leader overall
The support for the republicans in the Spanish civil war was pretty substantial, especially considering they needed resources themselves to arm up against the Germans.
Nadezhda Alliluyeva. She was only 18 when they got married. Then she eventually killed herself.
Obviously I can't say that it was his fault that she killed herself, or that he had bad intentions by marrying her. But I still judge him for it.
Edit: Seems this was a bit controversial. I'm not mad about it or anything, but I do wonder why. Please do feel free to share your thoughts and tell me why I'm wrong.
I will criticize Stalin in that I think he shouldn't have made abortion illegal after the Russian Revolutionary era Recovery years.
I understand he wanted more soldiers to fight fascism, and I appreciate that the Soviet authorities allowed millions of exceptions in cases of rape and incest and life-threatening situations, but regardless.
I also understand that Darwinism was often used as an excuse for scientific racism, and I don't think that Lysenko did nothing of value, but Stalin shouldn't have rejected genetics and Darwinian evolution as fast or as hard as he did.
Deporting the Sakhalin japanese back to Japan. Overwhelmingly, they were pro-USSR and wanted to stay.
Overall, the resettlement policy was pretty shit and resulted in unjustified misery a lot of the time.
He sold out the Greek communists to the British.
That cost Greece a 4 year civil war and 30 years of repression and dictatorship, followed by neoliberal governments till now.
It also caused a far-right coup in Cyprus down the line, which gave the chance for Turkey to invade it and still hold half the island under occupation.
Greece and Cyprus were both on the way to becoming socialist.
His policies on homosexuality was misguided, it was a different time and he thought it would help boost the population. Obviously he was wrong, but I still think its tough to pin that entirely on him, at the time there wasn't as much understanding as we have now.
It's worth noting this was actually a huge step back. After the October Revolution when the Bolsheviks rewrote all the laws they specifically and purposefully left out anti-homosexuality laws. Twice. I don't think it's completely fair to make so many excuses for him when his predecessors were clearly ahead of him on this
Really only thing i could find is the resettlement of Koreans. Other ones were either justified by history or (in case they weren't) plausible at the time, but Korean one was really unnecessary. Idk who exactly decided that though and how much his personal fault was in this, the period was hectic.
It wasn't by any means detrimental to development of socialism though, which was later also proven by history of Korea.
Wild to see a community that's supposed to be a fan of Lenin making excuses for Stalin... Lenin's last dying wish was that the party find a way to get rid of Stalin. Stalin literally had all of the original members of the Bolsheviks – everyone that was there during the October Revolution – killed. He pretty much stood against everything Lenin (and obviously his arch-rival Trotsky) stood for
source?
For which part? The bit about Lenin's warning is from Lenin's Testament[0] in the post-script:
Stalin is too coarse and this defect, although quite tolerable in our midst and in dealing among us Communists, becomes intolerable in a Secretary-General. That is why I suggest that the comrades think about a way of removing Stalin from that post and appointing another man in his stead who in all other respects differs from Comrade Stalin in having only one advantage, namely, that of being more tolerant, more loyal, more polite and more considerate to the comrades, less capricious, etc. This circumstance may appear to be a negligible detail. But I think that from the standpoint of safeguards against a split and from the standpoint of what I wrote above about the relationship between Stalin and Trotsky it is not a [minor] detail, but it is a detail which can assume decisive importance.
Also in the testament he said of Stalin
I think that Stalin's haste and his infatuation with pure administration, together with his spite against the notorious "nationalist-socialism" [Stalin critised the minority nations for not being "internationalist" because they did want to unite with Russia], played a fatal role here. In politics spite generally plays the basest of roles.
Also there was 21 members and 10 candidate members of the Central Committee at the time of the Revolution in 1917. You can look up the history of each of the members and see that, for the ones who made it through till Lenin's death, Stalin had them executed in order to consolidate all power. These members include Zinoviev and Kamenev who represented the "left wing" of the party. Trotsky was the only original member that survived but he was banished and never returned to Russia. Stalin would use him as a scapegoat for many years afterwards; using alleged involvement in "Trotskyist groups" as an excuse to imprison or kill other members of the party.
[0] https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1922/dec/testamnt/index.htm
You've been mislead in a very serious way. That "warning," which is more critical of Trotsky than of Stalin, comes from Stalin's only conflict with Lenin, which happened to take place during Lenin's last days, over Stalin's supposed "brutality" in Georgia. Since Lenin only got this information second-hand (he was bedridden), he never published that "testament." Once he recovered, he began to investigate personally. After he did, Stalin was acquitted.
On another note, those "left-wing Bolsheviks" like Zinoviev and Kamenev betrayed Lenin at the very hour of the revolution. Trotsky had been against it until that hour. Stalin and Lenin had been working together to bring about the revolution for decades, longer than any of these "left-wing Bolsheviks," and on top of that he never backstabbed Lenin. The idea that Lenin and Trotsky of all people were close friends and Stalin was a distant, shifty politician lurking in the background waiting to take power is absurd. Stalin was the only legitimate successor to Lenin, especially since he built the party into power even before Lenin's death.
Stalin saved the world from the Nazis too, so you might want to show a little bit of respect for this great leader. I think part of that respect involves doing your research before you unknowingly reiterate these lies in an explicitly pro-AES community.
he never published that “testament.” Once he recovered, he began to investigate personally. After he did, Stalin was acquitted.
Lenin never recovered from this... This testament came from the series of strokes that lead to his death
Stalin and Lenin had been working together to bring about the revolution for decades
Also I think you're seriously confused. Zinoviev was part of the Bolsheviks since it split with the Mensheviks in 1903. Same with Kamenev. Stalin joined in 1917. Hell, the first time he even met Lenin was in 1906. And he was in and out of prison until the revolution (he was only out of prison for a total of 2 years between 1908 and 1917) so there's no way he could have possibly been "working together to bring about the revolution for decades"
Furthermore Lenin was (once again) forced into exile in 1907. He wouldn't even return to Russia until April of 1917 (hence the "April Theses")
This is just a matter of basic dates. Like shit you could have simply looked up. Please don't rudely ask me to do my research when you can't even get the very basics right.
Next time you reply I hope you've at least learned to use Google
http://209.151.22.101/Journalists/Strong-AL/TheStalinEra-AL-Strong-1956.pdf
Lenin recovered from his second stroke enough to investigate the Georgia matter himself before suffering his third stroke and dying. You make it sound like Lenin was warning the world of the evils of Stalin on his deathbed, and that's just not what happened.
And Stalin and Lenin had been colleagues and friends for twenty years by this time. They knew each other since 1905. And was he not in prison for working on the revolutionary socialist project?
And I apologize for being rude, but this is just contrary to everything I've learned about Stalin. Frankly, it feels indistinguishable from liberal histories of Stalin, which have been extremely falsified. So when I say you've been mislead in a serious way, I'm being quite serious.
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