Thomas_More
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“Kalinin was unable to protect even his own wife, Ekaterina Kalinina, who was critical of Stalin’s policies and was arrested on 25 October 1938 on charges of being a “Trotskyist”. Although her husband was the chair of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet (1938–46), she was tortured in Lefortovo Prison and on 22 April 1939, she was sentenced to fifteen years’ imprisonment in a labour camp. She was released shortly before her husband’s death in 1946.[15]” (Wikipedia).
TS, do you support torture? So how come you like Stalin?
We don’t revere killers and torturers.
Never seen the famous chart showing Stalin and Kalinin as the sole survivors of the pre-purge CPSU, TS? All the rest having been shot on Stalin’s order.
“The thread’s about the Russia/Ukraine conflict. I know you have the attention span of a dim goldfish but do try and stay on topic.”
Again TS avoids our points.
… And at the expense of goldfish, who are not as dim as he is, if at all. You can’t apply idiotic comparisons to vastly different animal species.
Back to the thread, TS: YOU have idolised Stalin here and whitewashed his violence. NOT exactly on thread yourself!
Your Putin, TS, has in fact made The Gulag Archipelago required reading for colleges. He is not the admirer of Stalin that you are.
Got myself another copy of “One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich.” Solzhenitsyn’s “The Gulag Archipelago” is supposed to be enlightening too.
One sees similar seeds of the leader cult under Chiang, but people were allowed to refuse to take part. Mao did not allow any standing back. We Socialists would have been utterly obliterated.
Blood splattered on tree trunks. Three young wolves sprawled on the ground. Lifeless. Wolves that were meant to be a symbol of hope for their species were just GUNNED DOWN in Wyoming a few days ago. As members of the only wolf pack in Colorado, they were precious to the state’s repopulation efforts and are protected by the state. But as soon as they set their paws on Wyoming soil, they stood no chance against trophy hunters.
” Being associated with powerful groups allows TN to feel some of the reflected “glory” of the sociopaths he so admires.”
As Reich points out in “Listen, Little Man” and in “The Mass Psychology of Fascism”, which applies to all totalitarianism.
Mao knew how to harness the sexual energy of youth and misguide it. The murderous Red Guards would have been pop and movie star fans, or football hooligans, in the West.
Like my German teacher at school, who, with her fellow Nazi Party members in 1945, swapped armbands for Communist Party ones, and carried on.
He was himself a chain smoker.
Tea houses were closed and the elderly workers who relied on them as a relief from their wretched daily lives driven away. Chess was forbidden too. The Chinese tea house was a very ancient tradition and was the centre of social life. They were not reopened until the 1980s.
Loudspeakers plagued people all day long, and at night, blaring on every street corner.
“True Narcissist states “I would agree with those mumbers. The Ukrainians on the other hand have lost at least 100,000 dead possibly much higher. Ukrainian losses are unsustainable, Russian losses are not. That is why Russia will win and decisively””
And TN must be proud and happy about it.
