Don't listen to that guy, just another Frisbirdian lunatic

I mean, Stalin locked swaths of people up, incited pogroms, expelled political dissidents -- but does that make those actions "Stalinist" in any context? It reads to me as an appeal to red scare sensibilities. In fact these are moves are out of any authoritarian's playbook. It's fascist brain drain. I think that's all they're saying. Granted ML tends toward tankie, but this take seems fine

Not one side or the other, but this is also just as often found to be true in reverse. Kinda sucks, especially when your viewpoint is supported by a person's achievements/views/whatever. This guy could have been potentially sabotaging Soviet agriculture (maybe even in support of his larger views of how things should be, hard to say) and spying for Britain (probably more of a stretch considering he was the better/more true to the real goal person for the job which was probably not in line with any of Britain's priorities). But people do have weaknesses. Sometimes our idea of a person due to their beliefs conflict with their actions. It doesn't make him any less the better candidate for his position. However, it is difficult to determine without bias whether this was a case of trumped up charges or possibly a man with good intentions that did commit some crimes. I'm inclined to agree that he was probably a convenient scapegoat because, Stalin. But for the sake of a fair argument I think these claims should at least be researched before everyone jumps on the down vote train.

You think Trump and the Republicans have an exclusive lock on trumped up charges? Do you know anything about how federal prosecution works? Wait till you read about what the courts have been doing to black people and indigenous people for generations!

He's got a comment in another community removed for talking about Ukrainian propaganda. He's just another lemmy.ml cultist.

Man, talk about apologia, y'all will excuse anything to justify fighting communism.