Decky wrote:Stalin's Soviet Union was the most democratic state in the history of human kind.
Stalin was a troll just like Donald Trump who couldn't resist degrading and humiliating his most loyal supporters.Stalin didn't make Beria his terror chief despite that fact that he was a paedophile. He made him his terror chief because he was a peodophile. Beria was made terror chief for the exact same reason as his predecessor. Here's Boris Nicolaevsky on Nikolai Yezhov:
In the whole of my long life, I have never met a more repellent personality than Yezhov's. When I look at him I am reminded irresistibly of the wicked urchins of the courts in Rasterayeva Street, whose favorite occupation was to tie a piece of paper dipped in kerosene to a cat's tail, set fire to it, and then watch with delight how the terrified animal would tear down the street, trying desperately but in vain to escape the approaching flames. I do not doubt that in his childhood Yezhov amused himself in just such a manner and that he is now continuing to do so in different forms.
Or take Stalin's campaign against "rootless cosmopolitans". This could have been lifted almost word for word from Hitler's speeches. Hitler didn't generally refer to Jew's directly in his speechs, but referred to them indirectly, precisely as rootless cosmopolitans. Stalin conducted this campaign against rootless cosmopolitan (internationalist) Jews at the precisely the same time that he backed rooted nationalist Zionist Jews in Palestine. Again this was precisely Hitler's policy in the nineteen thirties. Hitler pilloried the internationalist Jews while helping to the lay foundations of the Jewish state in Palestine. As Ken Livingston so rightly and courageously pointed out Hitler was a Zionist "before he went mad".
But of course when Hitler attacked the rootless cosmopolitans he wasn't just attacking Jews, he was trying to conflate Jews and Marxists, Jews and Communists, Jews and Socialist, although he called his own party socialist. He was trying to conflate Jewish bankers with Jewish Marxists, Jewish bankers with Jewish critical theorists, Jewish bankers with Jewish avant-garde artists. He was trying to conflate bankers with radical artists and social theorists, even though I'm sure he was not adverse to receiving large donations from the non Jewish financial sector.
Stalin knew this. When Communists, and it was Communists all over the world not just inside the Soviet union that were required to follow Stalin's line, denounced rootless cosmopolitans they were not just denouncing internationalist Jews, they were denouncing themselves. The only comparison I can think of is if Decky, immortal Goon and Potemkin, all suddenly came on the forum tomorrow and started denouncing Cultural Marxism. Stalin's campaign against rootless intellectuals was a capricious, gratuitous, sadistic and almost insanely cynical move to get his loyal supporters to humiliate themselves.
Yes Donald we know you could shoot someone on fifth Avenue without losing your core supporters. Yes of course smart people like myself already knew that. But did you have to humiliate them by pointing it out?