• Gork@lemm.ee
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    10 months ago

    I can’t believe there are Stalin apologists this day and age. Even if you’re a supporter but ran afoul of him, you’d be given the same treatment as Nikolai Yezhov. That is, removed from history.

    Such are the ways of Authoritarian dictators.

      • PugJesus@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
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        10 months ago

        but he was also one if the few leaders in Soviet or Russian history who directly took action to improve the day to day lives of most Russians.

        Remember when Khrushchev took the reins of power and found out that agricultural production had dropped since Stalin came into power, despite some 30 years of technological development?

        Good times.