Meet the Russians Nostalgic for Stalin

[@nikitag1376]

when I die, a lot of garbage will be put on my grave, but the wind of time will ruthlessly sweep it away. Joseph Stalin

[@নিৰৱকুমাৰদাস]

Ah!

[@abinashpradhan4861]

The present generations are more liberal, they will put more garbage

[@docharry999]

what a wonderful line.

[@balijaa]

Ah... My good old line... I miss those days.......

[@anormalyoungster3661]

@@balijaa Hmmm

[@sentientnatalie]

“It is difficult for me to imagine what "personal liberty" is enjoyed by an unemployed person, who goes about hungry, and cannot find employment. Real liberty can exist only where exploitation has been abolished, where there is no oppression of some by others, where there is no unemployment and poverty, where a man is not haunted by the fear of being tomorrow deprived of work, of home and of bread. Only in such a society is real, and not paper, personal and every other liberty possible.” ― J. V. Stalin

[@tboon9399]

Cool story bro. 2 plus 2 may equal 4 but the man stating this truth that is a murderer is still a murderer.

[@sentientnatalie]

@@tboon9399 Well, "bro", I would suggest you re-examine your ideas about this. Or, and you will more likely do this, continue eating and drinking western and/or revionist slop. Actually read the damn quote, you *might* just learn something if your mind is even a little bit open. You are more of a murderer than he could ever be, even I, too, before I learned the truth about political economy and the world in which we live, and judging by your subscriptions, you would definitely be open to promoting US-led western imperialist murder and denying that it is such, even fascism and not knowing it is such, because your creators for whom you fanboy are doubtless promoting just the kind of false consciousness that I'm talking about. You haven't "won" anything by your dude-bro type of comment, it is a fact that Comrade Stalin did his bit to create a better world, which is way more than you will ever do, and in my lifetime, way better than even my paltry efforts could be. I used to believe as you do, but I learned and accepted the truth and grew up, the class consciousness concerning the material world in which we live being the beginning of wisdom.

[@Classical4Piano]

@@tboon9399 Communism also fails by design. But clearly people here have not realised it yet

[@CknWngMn]

@@tboon9399so I’m assuming you’re also completely disgusted with all US presidents, from Washington to Biden, winston Churchill, the founding fathers and basically all European leaders?

[@M2rsh]

@@tboon9399 Many things that we "know" about Stalin is pure unhistorical slander whether that be by Khrushchev, Goebbels, or other nationalists watch "Stalin: Marxist-Leninist perspective" by Revolutionary Left Radio Besides Stalin wasn't the only person in the government yes he had the position of Supreme Soviet but his vote was still a singular vote even the CIA admitted it (in unclassified documents) CIA-RDP80-00810A006000360009-0 "Even in Stalin's time there was collective leadership. The Western idea of a dictator within the Communist setup is exaggerated"

[@_robustus_]

It makes sense that people living at the bottom of the ladder in an oligarchy might think that the soviet days were better.

[@_robustus_]

capitalism kills way more Read again

[@_robustus_]

capitalism kills way more I thought you were accusing ME of arguing for capitalism. I’m a democratic socialist but without heavy regulation and oversight, any system is vulnerable to bastards.

[@kazakhdoge1822]

For some, it might have been better. But one must be very ignorant if he/she thinks that the Stalinist USSR was actually a great living period.

[@_robustus_]

capitalism kills way more I would prefer the latter but I have no confidence in our ability to pull it off. I think another near useless bureaucracy would evolve. So I would settle for” Bernie-ism”.

[@_robustus_]

StalinLovesYou Yes I know. That’s the best I can hope for here.

[@charonsferryold]

"Why don't you just ask the people who lived under communism about how they liked it?" "No no no not those ones, the grandchildren of Cuban plantation owners."

[@flinxxzz6388]

My parents lived under the ussr and they didnt like it.

[@sim3ligamingyt648]

My parents liked it

[@flinxxzz6388]

@@sim3ligamingyt648 the soviets burnt down lithuanian villages and then called innocent lithuanians bandits.

[@WM-gf8zm]

@@flinxxzz6388 innocent while bandierists were doing pogroms. Ok

[@flinxxzz6388]

@@WM-gf8zm the russians basivally wanted lithuanians dead.

[@LuGer212]

putin: brings back stalin to promote national pride and identification stalin: yeah I'll take over from here

[@DrippaDome-98]

Putin has never done that though

[@capturedskunk7698]

@StalinLovesYou no

[@altinshehu3756]

@StalinLovesYou without the satelite states the russian empire is bigger

[@user-vy2hv5pp7k]

@StalinLovesYou No but Putin recovered Russia at saved it from economic downfall that Yeltsin created. I am Russian and I absolutely admire both Stalin and Putin. Both good men.

[@polishherowitoldpilecki5521]

Комиссар Iraqi.

[@emmanuel9823]

"People who lived under socialism would never return to socialism" People who lived in the Soviet Union: _"Compared to the current government, Stalin is a god"_

[@vladimirlenin3562]

Lenin approves

[@tomaszzalewski4541]

@Imperial Soviet yeah, the guy who killed just as many (if not more) people (a large portion of them russians) as a certain failed Austrian painter. Anybody that considers him a "god" or a "hero" is a person with really short memory - the guy was simply a butcher

[@ruturajshiralkar5566]

Ppl who lived under Stalin, very few are actually alive that too in a healthy condition. Most of Today's Stalinists are youngsters who are blinded by the Propoganda.

[@Ms.-Lily]

Because Stalin bad as CIA messaged them personally

[@ruturajshiralkar5566]

@@Ms.-Lily did KGB msg you that Stalin was good.

[@basedgodstrugglin]

‘Member Stalin? Ooo I ‘member!

[@Raging__Savage]

Best comment

[@hassanladha9337]

Memberies

[@homemacai]

Perfect

[@awddfg]

*_WE member._*

[@angelllzz9020]

we member*

[@Beyonder1987]

If Stalin had governed 80's Soviet Union. Soviets would still be here today for sure. Under Stalin. Russia was a super power at any cost.

[@bobbys1308]

@Alex The Awesome No they weren't.

[@bobbys1308]

@Alex The Awesome Stalin made the clouds stop raining

[@costasvas341]

@@bobbys1308 No, but he sold food abroad for factory equipment and he enforced an economic system that lead to reduced production.

[@timothemememo0801]

@@costasvas341 yeah but tell me any famine that happened after that exactly they never that was the point to stop famine as both ussr and america had equal rations but the soviets one was more nutreisas

[@Jarod-sm5rf]

Stalin almost ruins the country thousands starved in the countryside

[@duketogo13]

Stalin died in 53. How can these people be "nostalgic" for something that they didn't even live through? Maybe I'm nit picking but it feels like the wrong word choice.

[@i.e.o.5840]

They just want the old glorious days of the gulag and great economic growth!

[@andrewibell8592]

That's why they tore his legacy down after he died in '53, because the ppl who lived through it we're terrified by him. All these ppl remembering Stalin fondly are lucky they were born after Stalin was long dead.

[@davidulanovsky8943]

Andrew Isbell Actually rightly or wrongly Stalin was loved in Russia when he died. However it’s true the other states hated him.

[@user-31569]

overwhelming lots of shit is coming from tv and russian social media groups(Evgeniy Prigozhin's private 50cent army of kremlinbots, yes, youtube too). various topics are mixed with pseudoscience, pseudolinguistics, anti-semitism, racism, somekind of neopaganism, lots of religious cults and sects(not to mention the main, government-level one - russian orthodox church. well they claim they're orthodox but greek orthodox told rescently they've nothing to do with it) lots of conspiracy theories bullshit(as well as the stuff mentioned earlier) is pushed through so called pseudodocumentaries. it's like spam, it's everywhere people are reposting convincing each other to believe in it. lots of folks are just tierd and are trying to seclude themselves from the shit that's happening. like "i'm apolitical, i (don't want to)know nothing about it, whe're just plain folk, but still vote for Putin cause "there's no other alternative".

[@user-31569]

@@davidulanovsky8943 yeah, people cried, just like they do in dprk when they see their dear leader.

[@morzik12345]

i know countless people who had relatives who died or suffered under the 'liberating force' of the krauts(my family included), but have yet to find somebody outside of a liberal russian or ultranationalist Eastern European that was sent to a gulag despite the american education system telling my Russian/ukrainian/Polish self that Stalin imprisoned over 40 million people while simultaneously killing over 30 million people

[@meow-chan9062]

that's a made up number. no leader can intentionally kill that much. it is human nature to fight back when oppressed. if stalin even attempted such a thing there would have been revolt everywhere. and it's just not logical it would break gov reputation and break the economy who would be stupid to attempt that?

[@nauticalnovice9244]

30 million people... Any evidence?

[@Guadeloop]

@@nauticalnovice9244 their point is that it's wrong

[@kalinakasem5634]

Exactly, there's been several academics stating that the numbers touted in western academia is actually just rumors and estimates from the cold war , and please I do not trust a single number coming from that time and that region.

[@kingdedede333]

Me when i'm in a doing nothing wrong competition and my opponent is Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin: 😰😰😰

[@V0TION]

Stalin was based

[@kobajughashvili3444]

Stalin was a great leader who fought for the people to establish socialism - he raised the standard of living for USSR from a civilization of horse drawn plows to entering the space age. No capitalist propaganda can take that away.

[@antimattv]

Wow. 100%, brother. I hate how they always say, "millions killed" by Stalin. What the hell? You mean millions of Nazi soldiers? Yes! But even then it was the army, and Stalin was just the leader. The capitalists and their lies will not last forever.

[@rakijaenjoyer5488]

Good to see there is still hope in humanity :)

[@hugoarendi3878]

yeah supporting someone who killed millions of people for no reason whatsoever brings tremendous hope

[@rakijaenjoyer5488]

@@hugoarendi3878 Yes, I don't care about the rich, the nazis and the liberals, they can all just starve.

[@borgir3451]

@@hugoarendi3878 yet you guys support nato who killed more innocent people than stalin ever did by the way of sanctions and resources mainly oil in the middle east

[@hugoarendi3878]

@@borgir3451 my country supports nato because we dont want russia to send 30 000 innocent civilians to die in siberia again

[@timeless808ssecondaccount4]

@@hugoarendi3878 Shut up. America killed people during the highway of death, and during Vietnam war.

[@Creteboi]

I love how they say celebrating the end of the war instead of celebrating the victory of the war is it really that hard to just say russia won the Second World War

[@dr.ambiguous4913]

yes

[@Creteboi]

@Sid the Sloth yes sir my bad

[@minhng7208]

This shows a difference between the Russians and the Chinese. The Chinese recognise Mao's mistakes but respect his achievements. Yeltsin denounced Stalin and the USSR. History has a continuity and the USSR has its stand in Russian history with its positives and negatives. See how China is now and how Russia is now. The present is built from the past. Smart leaders learn from past mistakes but not negate everything past leaders do. Yelstin even became humble to recognise fake mistakes set up to denounce Stalin. I call that silly.

[@promaster4758]

China is capitalist bullshit anyway.

[@kyecypress]

Easily the greatest leader of the 20th century

[@kyecypress]

@sidthesloth1648 nazi soldiers? Yes very likely, he was key to the allies victory in WW2.

[@UmQasaann]

​@@kyecypress The deaths under Stalin's administration were 700,000 not 20 million or whatever high score that the lying Goebbels propagandists drunkenly made up.

[@ceres568]

The Soviet Union lives on in every communists hearts. Our fight for equality and the liberation of the working class will never cease. Glory to comrade Stalin!

[@noahjohnson935]

the thousands dead may disagree

[@sentientnatalie]

Hear hear! I was born and raised in the west, and still live there, where all the lies imaginable are pushed about Stalin and everything socialist, but even I know the truth! After Lenin, that great visionary, there was Stalin, the other great visionary, whose assassination by the Khruschevite scum paved the way for the overthrow of glorious Soviet socialism and the Soviet Union through illegal dissolution. The Soviet Union and all those socialist states faithful to the communist cause live on in my heart, too. May Soviet socialism return, better than before, may the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics rise again and make the capitalist world tremble!

[@borelespork4510]

@@sentientnatalie nice text comrade, we all fight on our separate stretches of land to end upp in solidarity for a socialist future. I admire Stalin and Lenin for guiding the way for Soviet socialism and socialism in general in the age of imperialism. One day the earth shall be ours, the future is in our path!

[@Classical4Piano]

@@sentientnatalie Fucking hell you are on drugs. 1. Lenin did not want Stalin to become the next leader 2. Stalin was a horrible dictator who murdered 9 million people through famine, purges etc 3. Socialism/ Communism has clearly failed. Stalin didn't intend for a devolution of the state ever, no communist leader does. You know why? Because it is very easy to become corrupt when your a dictator. Communism fails by design

[@VYKNIGHT]

"Historical revisionism" rich coming from the American media

[@matthood4857]

VYKnight_ADark and the Natives taught the settlers how to grow corn and handed over their land to the colonists to live happily ever after

[@namelessghoul3907]

@ScarletDespair Muh Stalin killed 30 Billion Gazillion Trillion people

[@MalleusImperiorum]

@ScarletDespair Stalin killed 860.000 people. Not all of them Russians. Most of them traitors, trotskists, corrupt officials. As it was the dictatorship of the proletariat, can't really hate Stalin for that. As history showed, it was indeed for the greater good. Oh, did I miss something? Is there no more slavery in the West? So, you wanna say that a common banana plantation worker in some Honduras can just quit his job without dying of starvation shortly after? Sounds amazing!

[@leftylaura9164]

@@matthood4857 its actually scary though. during thanksgiving EVERY YEAR in elementary school, the first and second graders would do a play written by the government funded public school curriculum in which the natives were best friends with the pilgrims and they had a great feast and lived happily ever after. it wasn't until I read A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn when I realized the true horrors behind the nation.

[@Rssika]

Biggest mistake Stalin did was stopping at Berlin.

[@swishersweetprofessional8286]

Aivokimppu Soviet Union is a joke

[@Rssika]

@@swishersweetprofessional8286 "Joke" that reached space first, among other scientific, social and economic achievements.

[@MalleusImperiorum]

@@swishersweetprofessional8286 A joke that made the whole Western world tremble in the 30s. Just like China does now.

[@swishersweetprofessional8286]

Артем Бояринцев hmmm I wonder why it fell🤔🤔 maybe because communism failed

[@swishersweetprofessional8286]

Aivokimppu also a joke that lied about many of their accomplishments, and failures. Hmmm I wonder why they covered up Chernobyl for years

[@goodluckgorsky3413]

Can you blame them? Even the dissolution of the USSR was an illegal act

[@jutoa6458]

You guys cant really say anything considering you dont have a deep er connectionto it all like me and hes no Saint he killed sooooo many for no reason at all

[@user-fg8ux8zo6w]

wow I made this comment when I was a libtard now I am an anti-imperialist

[@PartnershipsForYou]

CONservatives are a joke.

[@ursoj1235]

@@PartnershipsForYou lmao, I can tell you are an anarchist marxist keyboard warrior. Explain how religion is cancer, and how "CONservatives" (whatever the hell that means), is bad?

[@randomguy8393]

Except the difference is that they don't dress up in full black and wear masks while they attack innocent people.

[@blackpagan9689]

Conservatives in Europe are way different then the states just remember this everyone

[@lukebruce5234]

@nanda erdhani a liberal myth

[@burbclavefutur1527]

I find it kind of ironic that Stalin is like a big right-wing nationalist symbol now.

[@yungnegerarsch2001]

@@piso9433 I hope you're joking

[@clemmy786]

where ? what right wing nationalist ?

[@chillerwhale1655]

What right wing nationalists are you talking about?

[@KimmyTheForsaken]

@Simon Coulson The USSR had Universal Health Care, Idiot.

[@ThePCGamerTipsTricks]

@nanda erdhani Stalin was not Russian he was Georgian.

[@cageybee7221]

Stalin lead the USSR was it experienced the brutality and Famine of the Russian civil war that took 10 years to fully end and ruined much of the country, and during this post civil war period Stalin took this war torn agricultural nation and turned it into a modern superpower with industrialized farming and a system of food distribution to everyone in only a couple decades, and then the nazis attacked and he lead the nation against them and dusrvived the worst horrors of the holocaust that was mostly done in the USSR and the famines caused by the loss of farmland to war which stalin ended, in the post war period Stalin eradicated homelessness and rapidly improved quality of life for the USSR's citizens before dying. it only makes sense he is still remembered so well.

[@rorybiller]

The famines were caused by Stalin rounding up all of the grains and the seeds and the farming equipment from the kulaks and leaving them to starve and eat their own children in the winter. Stalin's paranoia was so myopic and destructive that it led him to killing off thousands of the military brass during the purges of the 1930s leaving the Soviets with an unlearned, inexperienced, sycophantic Officer class that was helpless when the Germans attacked in 1941. His only redemption is that he had more corpses to throw into the meat grinder at Stalingrad, and that he put his faith in Zhukov, who was actually brilliant. Stalin is without equal. He's the totalitarian leader to set the benchmark, and corpses in the tens of millions lie at his feet. He's the worst person who ever lived.

[@cageybee7221]

@@rorybiller first of all, both sides seized grain from peasants to feed their soldiers during the war. this is nothing new and has happened in every single war in history and it was in no way a centralized effort. the Kuluks were not "left to starve", they were infact moved to kolkhoz farms several years after the civil war. as far as the infamous "army purges" the red army had many officers in it loyal to the tsar that had to be used to fight the civil war because they were invaluable to the army but could never be fully trusted. they had to go, however very few were actually executed most were just exiled to remote regions of russia (not in gulags usually), and the myth that the red army was a savage meat grinder that only won through sheer manpower is just that a myth, infact it is an insult to the people who fought bravely and died to defeat the nazis. the Red army suffered so badly because the eastern front of world war two is the place where the world's at the time two largest armies were fighting and furiously trying to wipe eahc other off the face of the planet. the Nazi's suffered similar extreme losses infact 80% of all nazi wartime deaths happened fighting in the east. also the claim that Stalin "killed tens of millions" is absurd for multiple reasons: 1. often, the numbers i hear for stalin's death toll exceed the actual population of the USSR at the time so they are clearly bullshit because that is physically impossible. 2. Internationally verified Census data shows no such major population decline except of course during world war two which i shouldn't need to explain why people would be dying during 3. the numbers vary so wildly depending on how far to the right whoever is telling me them are that it is obvious to anybody they were made up on the spot.

[@Minneolaos]

Stalin collected The grain and exported IT so that he could purchase industrial equipment from The West. The famines were caused by this export-import trade. Stalin built stalinkas For The elites and did not build enough housing for The ordinary people. When Kruschev came in, his priority was building so-called kruschovkas For The masses. So, Stalin killed a lot of people in these man-made famines and also let people live in subpar housing for 10-20 years.

[@sufifan62gestalt30]

Stalin wasn't ethnically Russian nor a Slav. He was Georgian.

[@derptrolling4740]

A soviet citizen

[@ΣανταμΧουσειν-ψ7δ]

@@hardbassindustry no caucasian has nothing to do with slav...

[@ΣανταμΧουσειν-ψ7δ]

@@hardbassindustry i dont know this but genetically they dont have any connection

[@DM-dy6vn]

Rurikids weren't Slavs either, you ignorant. Russia is a multinational Empire ever since

[@sababaratashvili8629]

@@hardbassindustry Yes, there was a mix with both Russia and Turkey, still majority look different from both and you can tell. And from what I've heard Turks in recent decades mixed with Slavs after some Turks married Slavs and other Europeans so that probably changed them as well looks-wise. As for Georgians, looks-wise they are more similar to Basques in Spain.

[@patrickrobinson1935]

Stalin is based.

[@latheefabdulla3722]

I love Comrade Stalin.. The great leader in the history of USSR.. From Kerala, South Indian State

[@avanish9261]

Lal Salaam. CPIM Zindabad

[@emmanuel9823]

Kerala is a socialist state in India and is the better state in terms of quality of life of the India. I love you from Colombia, dear comrades. ¡Long live proletarian internationalism! ✊🏾☭

[@asd-ik5er]

​@@emmanuel9823 Also the only state in India to not have public defecation.

[@ishalakbar4294]

Lots of respect for Kerala! From a Pakistani :)

[@Ms.-Lily]

@@emmanuel9823 tbh, Kerala isn't completely socialist either. Indian states mostly follow 'social market economy'.

[@RJ-ll6gl]

Слава товарищ Сталин

[@Burrito69killer]

Stalin was a sigma male that is why Vice does not understand him

[@nasserntege2445]

Based

[@alienbsg]

Based

[@ivanmerkusjev8861]

Based

[@theredtechnician]

Based

[@KPECTOHOCEU]

Based

[@toastedgoast508]

I already know that when I die a heap of rubbish will be shoved on my grave- but one day it will be blown away by the wind of history - Josef Stalin, Savior of Mankind

[@onsholo]

About time Stalin was once again seen the light that he deserves, as one of the best national leaders of the 20th century.

[@BeingFireRetardant]

The greatest mass murderer the world has ever known... that's what you meant to say.

[@onsholo]

@@BeingFireRetardant MuH 100 MiLlIoN!

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[@alienbsg]

Facts comrade

[@onionhater5887]

@@onsholooh no, we are all tankies now. What are we going to do? Vuvuzela also failed, so hArD.

[@arcticfrost745]

Everybody’s gangsta till Stalin sends them all to the gulags

[@hellokiwi25]

Skinny YES! FINALLY! THANK YOU!!!

[@o.h.w.6638]

Thumbnail looked like a stone concrete Yoda

[@jimtsitsiklis1393]

I AM STALINIST 100% СЛАВА СССР РОДИНА

[@aesthetic8289]

Based

[@Hsutheguard]

You can get out of gulag, but you can't never take the gulag out of you

[@japek132]

Its sad ;(

[@aswinsuresh2416]

Stalin was the greatest humanitarian leader of the 20th century.

[@LegoWarFims]

He invaded Poland.

[@UmQasaann]

​@Sid the Sloth The deaths under Stalin's administration were 700,000 not 20 million or whatever high score that the lying Goebbels propagandists drunkenly made up.

[@chinki-j2t]

No.

[@cedrickcole8066]

They aren't wrong Stalin did transform Russia into a industrial super power but at the cost of millions of lives...

[@cedrickcole8066]

@Revolutionary Communist I see this video has started to attract the Stalin defense squad let me guess you think Stalin didn't violently resettle and forcibly aquire the assets of the Kulaks huh? He also didn't kill them in there hundreds of thousands either right? Edit: I can't tell if your trolling if so disregard lol

[@MalleusImperiorum]

@the truth How do you know?

[@CassiusGreen]

@Oscar Yeager "When you own the communists by calling them subhumans epic style" 1943-45 Germany moment. Funny how it ended in the way it ended.

[@CassiusGreen]

@Oscar Yeager Boohoohoo stay losin

[@caiquemarlon5579]

1:30 revisionism is what imperialist history has done to Stalin

[@americancommunist6076]

truth

[@fortis3686]

I can honestly understand why they want him back. Stalin made the USSR into a powerhouse, and led it to victory during ww2

[@suprotyv7534]

Actually Stalin started WW2 together with Hitler.

[@fortis3686]

You Are Yes I know about the Molotov Ribbentrop pact

[@suprotyv7534]

@@fortis3686 The victory which is won by millions of deaths is called Pyrrhic victory

[@wezarr7825]

Yh, he achieved this by turning each individual into pure production asset, only living on a minimum of basic needs and giving the individual no change for self-development . Thanks to the lend-lease program the USSR received vital equipment and support, before they got their own industry running in masses. 'Leading them into victory', yh since USSR had a plenty of people the preferred strategy was just to throw as many (sometimes unarmed) individuals at them until the enemy is overrun. In short: giving not a single fk about your own population and their well being. Congrats, you did achieve your goal, but it's just a matter of time before your own people turn against you tho. Guess what happened...

[@trans-octopusspacealien8883]

And millions upon millions were sacrificed. 4 million were forced into the gulags which were responsible for much of the success of the USSR. In other words, the "super worker" boasted by commies didn't actually make a dent. Without slaves in the gulags the empire would have fallen. All the sins commies believed capitalism commits they themselves committed everyday.

[@yakigesher-zion7289]

I personally wouldn’t be opposed to soviet Russia returning

[@meritocratos]

Oh damn, why he had forgotten the 1937 year?

[@jamesgillam9656]

This makes me think of the Lenin quote of “Capitalists will sell us the rope by which we hang them”. What I mean by that is Putin is trying to garner more support for Russian Imperialism by celebrating figures of Russia’s Soviet Past but this is leading to people saying yeah “ things were better under communism”

[@MikoyanGurevichMiG21]

This comment rings true now more than it ever did before.

[@nomorelibsplease1975r]

Good man, great in fact.

[@U_Go_Boom]

Bruh, they are chads! lol.

[@mikeuchiha5972]

I'm no Russian but I myself am a Stalinist

[@janetrodgers8473]

He did not live during the Stalinist regime, nor did those others. If he had, I feel his and the others opinions would be very different.

[@davidulanovsky8943]

And you did Janet Rodgers? Can’t say I’ve heard that name very often.

[@wendigo017]

Lol come to Russia all people who lived under Stalin (70+ year olds) love him to the point where you can't find a single house without Stalin calendar. My grandparents lived during his leadership and they do miss Soviet times.

[@davidulanovsky8943]

Wendigo01 Americans break down when you tell them people liked the USSR.

[@janetrodgers8473]

@@davidulanovsky8943 I am of an age that I can remember quite a lot about Russia, previously USSR, Hungary, Balkans etc. I also watch Russian News broadcasts and read a lot. Please do not presume because I'm not Russian, I'm unaware of Putin and Russian people. At least in my Country I can criticise openly Government and Members of our Government without fear of retribution. It always surprises me that the Russian people, ordinary citizens of their Country, just as I am in mine, appear unaware of where Putins Billions came from.

[@janetrodgers8473]

@@wendigo017 It's called brainwashing and fear of that regime. You must be aware that many Europeans who stood side by side to defeat Hitler ended up in Gulags! My son visited Russia when ordinary people were permitted to do so. He loved the Country and the people. The West aren't your enemy, your News Channels feel we are. In my family and large circle of friends I have never heard them say they fear Russia. It's not very long ago that graves of Europeans were found. DNA is being used to try to trace any remaining family members. I went to School with girls and boys whose Fathers had been Prisoners of War from Poland which was part of the Eastern Bloc, German soldiers etc. Never were they treated any different from anyone else. They were our friends, playmates and integrated. I was never aware they were any different from anyone else or they'd been Prisoners of War until I was an adult. My best friends Dad was German, he never went back to his Homeland as the memories were too painful. Another friends Dad held down 2 jobs so he could send one wage to Poland the other for his own children. Research yourself, you will find many many Russians suffered terribly under Stalin. He didn't, nor did those who stood with him in the yearly parade of Soldiers, ranks etc. Look at pictures of those people, majority of them were certainly well fed. Easy to tell just by looking at them.

[@hanhan2360]

the arguments are strikingly similar with those Chinese who are nostalgic for Mao..

[@drill6739]

Nametayi谨言慎行 maybe because they both helped liberate their respective countries, brought dignity to the people, and improved their quality of life?

[@jasonssavitt5297]

@@drill6739 tell that to all the people who died in the great leap forward. Not to say he was any better than the nationalists of the time. Killing in between 30-55 million people. But knowing Mao he probably thought that it would mean less people to revolt against him.

[@drill6739]

Jason S Savitt lmfao “knowing mao.” so corny. you only “know” mao through the lense of capitalist history. regardless, claiming that mao purposely killed the working class people in the great leap forward, going so far as to use the term murdered, is ahistorical AT BEST. you need to keep in mind that china at this time in its history was the poorest country in the world and, therefore, predisposed to famine, flood deaths, etc. caused by unpredictable weather patterns. china had been having famines of the same or higher death toll throughout history, and the famine seen in the great leap forward has been the last famine in china since. of course there were mistakes mao made, but attributing EVERY DEATH to only him disputed the conditions of the time is ridiculous and honestly stupid. what the great leap forward succeeded in doing was developing the productive forces of the prc, therefore creating an economy more capable of supporting its population of 800 million at the time (remember that china was THE POOREST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD before the revolution), and was the first program of economic development in china leading to the current 800 million lifted out of poverty figure, championed by modern day china. also, just because you wanted to assert that mao was chairman of the prc contrary to the masses desire, mao unleashed what was called the Cultural Revolution in china in the 1960’s in which he called for the masses of china to persecute any person, concept, or thing that they felt hindered the revolution’s advancement, this included the communist party and its government figures. if they didn’t want mao to be their leader, the 800 million working class people would have thrown him out like they did numerous other people/things lol

[@drill6739]

Ivan Ivanovich Ivanovosky because mao definitely didn’t throw out the tibetan feudal lords who’d been starving and mutilating the tibetan people for hundreds of years.

[@drill6739]

Ivan Ivanovich Ivanovosky theres literally no evidence that uighurs are having their organs harvested. literally every article i’ve read on the subject sites either cia media arms, ngos funded by the united states, or the fulon gong media arm and its affiliates lmfao. you also fail to provide context, you can’t just say “they’re detaining uighurs.” leaving one’s mind to wander. we already know that uighurs are being radicalized by right wing western forces, and are even being smuggled to turkey in order to fight proxy wars. we already know that radical uighur terrorists have committed numerous deadly terrorist attacks in china since 2010. the re-education camps are nothing more than just that: re-education camps for those suspected of harboring extremist views. you’re being hypocritical, the united states (the west generally) imprison non white people disproportionately and at WAY higher rates. unlike china, we have evidence for why this happens, it’s in the constitution, is free labor for the bourgeoisie.

[@ProtiumPower]

Stalin was great to have made USSR industrial superpower with nukes and space tech. but people should also remember the price, It is much similar to how Mongolia views Genghis Khan as hero.

[@sujithpillai1554]

If Stalin was Soviet Leader in the place of traitor Gorbachev Soviet union was never got splitted. Current leader Putin same Stalin ❤️❤️

[@royjaber571]

Don't you think there was a reason to open up your markets? China's economy thrived when they opened up their market

[@somethingelse9228]

@@royjaber571 Even The Soviet Union thrived under a centrally planned economy under Stalin's five year plans. The Economic Stagnation was because of the horrible policies of Stalin's successors

[@musestarlight1]

Onions potato's and glass hope your enjoying that Russian food 😂

[@JohnComeOnMan]

Yearning for someone to rule over you is an odd desire.

[@flushphoning9767]

A lot of people pay good money for that especially if the ruler wears tight leather

[@JohnComeOnMan]

@@flushphoning9767 Stalin in tight leather...in my melon for the rest of the day.... appreciate it

[@onlinecommentator2616]

Not really. Every sane man craves, stability, harmony, order and strong action. These are what founded and worked with human societies since their inception. There was no commitee, there was one tribe leader. There was no democracy, there was the king. Democracy, its modern 1800th century incarnation is a false god.

[@scrooglemcdoogle]

Most people are cattle and wish to be treated as such, they want their autonomy stripped away from them in exchange of false promises of safety.

[@kazohinia5751]

It's honoring history and recognizing him as the hero that he was; rather than wishing for him to be resurrected. I'm sure that Americans who honor George Washington don't want him to be resurrected and made president.

[@SajtPanda]

"from murderous aristocrat" he wasnt evil

[@i.e.o.5840]

Aren't we all nostalgic for our greatest leader?

[@i.e.o.5840]

@TVSupersonic well he counts as a comrade since his ass is so involved with the russians

[@onionhater5887]

Based take right over

[@NamorleCanarky]

"Those who control the past control the future. Those who control the present control the past."

[@slavvodkaman9359]

Great.

[@tupolev.designs]

houston we have found god in this comment section

[@aidi4886]

Lützen. God is dead

[@billie_skreamz]

wtf

[@ЛеонидМ-х3и]

modern russians

[@440emil]

It's the equal to if germans started saying "we want to go back to se good old nazi days jaaa"

[@毛主义红龙]

Actually Soviets and Nazi Germany signed a non aggression pact...could of become allies. Hitler stupidity was invading the Soviet Union and made them enemy

[@440emil]

@@毛主义红龙 thank you for the history lesson, but i was aware of that, and what does that have to do with my comment?

[@suprotyv7534]

Modern Russia is a typical fascist state, so it's not surprising.

[@qv8281]

Sebastian1997[DK] in terms of Hitler and Stalins ruling style they couldn’t be more different, Stalin at his height was a highly organised, ruthless dictator who was feared by much of his own people, Hitler was much more emotional, had the organisation of a teenager and amongst most Germans was not feared. I’m not endorsing Nazism in any way but honestly it’s more shocking that there are any Russian stalinists.

[@rickmorty4534]

It’s equal to if you said directly- you know nothing about history

[@DDARKmodp]

Come back dady Stalin 😭

[@geoexplains3462]

No

[@americancommunist6076]

@@geoexplains3462 yes

[@torenico]

Yeah people wanting Stalin back but none of them ever mentioned Great Lenin, smh

[@garlandgarrison3739]

@Внук Ельцина What? Why? What was the point of the revolution?

[@garlandgarrison3739]

@Внук Ельцина but why the hate for his countrymen? I thought it was the autocratic Tsars he hated. Edit: Nevermind I did the research, Lenin himself was of mixed heritage. Jewish along with Swedish/German. He was only Russian by birth.

[@garlandgarrison3739]

@Внук Ельцина And is it true he attempted to destabilize Russia so Germany would win?

[@pierpaolodeiulis7783]

Long life Josif

[@Bungslinger]

Stalin is daddy af

[@sciencefictionisreal1608]

i hate him politically but no lies. would tap that.

[@LarsTragel-zh7ei]

Your mother is a junkie and your father left her before you were born, right?

[@PimaFunk80]

Long Live the Memory of Komrade Stalin! 👌🏽

[@bmeddiction2198]

I don’t know why u still think Stalin was a bad guy?

[@bmeddiction2198]

@@Sirvalian the thing is he wasn’t to us

[@bmeddiction2198]

@@Sirvalian you call him a dictator I don’t let’s acknowledge the differences we abide by and that’s it.

[@bmeddiction2198]

He betrayed his country Stalin didn’t

[@thanos8638]

You are Russian?

[@bmeddiction2198]

@@thanos8638 да

[@DeadnWoon]

Annual Victory Day parades were first held in Brezhnev times, not Stalin's. Don't mislead your viewers please!

[@traplover6357]

Tankies

[@marieel3225]

That's a compliment.

[@kazohinia5751]

Soviet tanks saved Europe from the Nazi yoke. Also, Hungarian incident was 1956, stalin died in 1953.

[@blackearl7891]

Lol

[@chepushila1]

Кококо. Кто не скачет тот сам знаешь кто.

[@levvy3006]

Damn proud to be a Tankie. Daddy Stalin on the rise!

[@Hartleymolly]

people of russia:”tear down that wall” also people of russian:” never mind put that damn wall, back up”

[@shawnv123]

@jose valenzuela berlin wall

[@ntokozosibanyoni1421]

Stalin never built that wall btw, Khrushchev did

[@NKVD1944]

Stalin was a strong leader for his country and thats a fact.

[@ricsonescalicas9657]

If Russia becomes the Soviet Union in the future, I might believe in the Simpsons.

[@sailingwithyou6667]

When the Essence Of time restores one of stalins old gulags

[@levvy3006]

Rightists need to be put somewhere.

[@josevelez5598]

The victory parades were hardly celebrated during the soviet era because of its brutality, so it was a low key celebration. These parades were celebrated in 1945 and 1985, after the collapse of the union, Russia celebrates it every 9th of May. The most common celebrations in the USSR were the October Revolution and May Day parades.

[@Minneolaos]

Yes there were so Many Widows.

[@the.good_guy.1]

USSR 2 please

[@royjaber571]

Please no

[@Guadeloop]

lmao why did they interview the most biased historian ever

[@jenvorocket]

Do you know that old people remember the Soviet union to be great

[@skylersneathen4799]

A businessman wants a return to Soviet principles? Well, say goodbye to your business then lol

[@yaselaamarasinghe4682]

Off to gulag!

[@americancommunist6076]

well the business is literally soviet enthusiasm, you gotta do what you got to do

[@windows95ism]

Based and literally redpilled lol

[@zeonmx]

"Stalin managed to prepare for WWII" LMFAO. Yeah after 26 million Russian deaths later.

[@KimmyTheForsaken]

Well, considering the USSR was trying to Surpass the West and Germany, and, Quite successfully, Destroyed the Fascists. To win against one of the Most Historically Industrial Countries in History, while only being Industrialized recently, goes to show how resolute the determination of the people of the USSR was against the Fascist Hordes. Most of the Deaths sustained were because of the Nazis Genocide conducted against Slavic People.

[@KimmyTheForsaken]

You Should also know that not all Soviets were Russian, many were of greatly different Ethnicities and Religions.

[@KimmyTheForsaken]

@DCM88 I know right? Just, like, work hard and Get rich, the Filthy Simpletons.

[@fredlandry6170]

One of the reasons was because Stalin was deeply suspicious of reports coming in about an imminent German invasion that was his fault.

[@KimmyTheForsaken]

@@fredlandry6170 What? He was never doubting any reports of invasion, that's why he was in such a Hurry to Industrialize and Modernize the Military, because he knew that Nazi Germany would eventually invade the USSR. As a matter of fact, he proposed sending a million soldiers to fight with the Allies but they rejected the offer.

[@BanditoBruh]

Me if I were Russian:

[@mrslavinator1057]

Russians being nostalgic for Stalin is like Brits Being Nostalgic For Churchill Or Americans Nostalgic For Lincoln.

[@americancommunist6076]

no, churchill should have been shot, lincoln shouldn't have and both he and stalin were based

[@mrslavinator1057]

@@americancommunist6076 please elaborate why Churchill should’ve been shot. You do realise the western world would’ve fell to the Third Reich if it wasn’t for his leadership?

[@americancommunist6076]

@@mrslavinator1057 bengal famine

[@mrslavinator1057]

@@americancommunist6076 Which was literally out of his control. Btw, Britain was also starving. Please do some research

[@americancommunist6076]

@@mrslavinator1057 he forced exports of cash crops.

[@jococherry598]

This is disgusting

[@Rustycan5639]

Which part?

[@user-or7mh5we2k]

It is disgusting we aren't allowed to celebrate a great man and a hero.

[@MT-eo6tq]

@@user-or7mh5we2k Celebrate Peter The Great for example instead of Stalin. A lot better leader than Stalin.

[@MT-eo6tq]

@capitalism kills way more Peter The Great didn't kill Russian people but Turks and Swedes like a boss

[@MT-eo6tq]

@capitalism kills way more Stalin killed its own people Peter The Great killed enemies. Theres the difference

[@aamaurismith7176]

People act like this is unique to the rest of the world, as though Americans don't venerate terrible people here.

[@MrWumpa-tn1ib]

yofosii we don’t really 🤷‍♂️

[@MrWumpa-tn1ib]

Shaolin I understand the notion that all confederates were evil but that’s not truly the case. In a lot of things in history, you have to look in a grey area.

[@matthood4857]

Mr. Wumpa much like there is a grey area for Stalin. Yes people died, but the numbers are mostly exaggerated in the Wets to demonise the Soviets. Most of the deaths attributed to him are from natural disaster (famine). But in another argument (made in the video by a Russian) he transformed a feudalistic state into a space and nuclear power in 30 years, not to forget that in this time he always defeated the most advanced and destructive military force the word had seen to this point in WW2. He took 30 years to do that, when the West took 200-300 years. If it hadn’t been for Stalin, Germany would have won WW2 in Europe, and the world would be a much darker place right now

[@MrWumpa-tn1ib]

NUFC I do agree with a lot of what your saying. WW2 and the Soviets were crucial to the allied victories, but to say that Stalin was a misunderstood or good man just isn’t right. What his regime did to people on a normal basis was horrifying. Look what he did to the boy who like his daughter. Look to what extent he did to have Trotsky killed. I understand he did good things for the country but the cost and fear in my eyes is too great.

[@FlyingNazgul-wm1dv]

@@MrWumpa-tn1ib all the founding fathers literally took part in genocide of Natives and had slaves Abraham Lincoln was corrupt diminished states rights to nothing, enlarged banks and burned down the south People venerate Hussein Obongo the serial bomber and deporter in chief

[@kosarmohsin9849]

The soveit days were better...with gorbachev not stalin and how can this guy say he was good when he didn't live under the dictators rule one second back then was all it took to get sent to a gulag no matter what you did who you were and your age all sent to gulags

[@PacificPounding]

ah yes, my new home.

[@happychey13]

Glory to Comrade Stalin!!!

[@mag-7924]

Unironically yes

[@jamesfredrick612]

Lol imagine them doing this in the 60's. People would go crazy on them.

[@Zen-rw2fz]

Cia sure would go crazy

[@king-oreos4003]

I can see maybe Lenin, but Stalin .? Even the Soviet government new he was a bad dude.

[@MalleusImperiorum]

That very government that betrayed the USSR and decided to break it apart.

[@Cesar1492Enjoyer]

God these comments, I swear people just see anything related to Communism in the title and instantly dislike the video. Don't you think that maybe these people are nostalgic for Stalin simply because he along with the USSR symbolizes hope to poverty stricken Russian communities?!

[@ntokozosibanyoni1421]

Glad Russia is undoing Western historical revisionism, which is ironic considering this propaganda channel's postulations

[@isaacp170]

Good

[@BioChemistryWizard]

Stalin was the real deal of a man. Conservative yet also socialist.

[@PitaGyro14]

Who the heck thinks i am dead?!

[@jj4739]

I maybe on the left, but this is just too crazy for me to even comprehend.

[@chepushila1]

How?

[@BanditoBruh]

very based people

[@petrulutenco6600]

A "bussinesman", think for a moment a "businessman". How about there was no such think in the Soviet Union as a "businessman"? When will people start to learn from the history?

[@leobieker9631]

I love all these people talking about Stalin like they knew him or lived during that time. There’s some pretty good reasons why the Soviet leadership tried to move away from his policies after he died.

[@dahlbelzalan5892]

yeah and reason for it simply because Stalin saved the country and defeated the harsh crisis and already saved the motherland. And no one of them lived during that time. But fact remains a fact. Stalin was a hero who made us a nuclear, economical, industrial superpower and free education, apartments, food, healthcare, second economy, science, first healtcare system, first military, third education in the world, with him 3 millions of people increased in population every year, just like GDP increased by 30% very year, defeated unemployment, destroyed homelsness, 8 hours work day, no drug trafficking etc. So he is a hero.

[@mike.juliano1124]

Товарищ Иосиф Сталин!

[@zico739]

Jesus, these loons at using Fox News style talking points lmao.

[@joshuaburrows4825]

How could you be a businessman and be a commi?

[@MrApplehair]

Joshua Burrows living under Russian propaganda - war is a peace, freedom is slavery and ignorance is strength

[@economicserfdom4087]

Read socialism with chinese characteristics, also a mao quote that define about their treatment of petty bourgoise and small businessmen

[@leftylaura9164]

GLORY TO STALIN

[@splatm4n8]

1:14, That is sort of right but for the most part, that is wrong. See, Stalin had thought that the Soviets would be on the offensive instead of the defensive if there was to be a war with Germany. Also before the invasion of Russia, Stalin ordered the mass execution of thousands of officers and commanders in the Soviet army so that none of them would be able to overthrow him. Officers and Commanders that would have helped a lot more when the German advance began. Lastly, before the Soviets and the Germans invaded Poland, the USSR had a whole line of bunkers, canons, etc along the border of Poland just like the Maginot Line. But then after Poland fell, Stalin ordered that the line be destroyed and moved to the border with Germany in Poland which would have actually taken years to do. And when the invasion actually came, he had received a call from General Zhukov asking if he could open fire. Stalin then denied. I can go on, but the reason why the tide was turned on the Eastern front was because when the Germans were finally on Moscow's doorstep, Stalin had realized what needed to be done and finally allowed defenses to be set up would the city. Also Winter was setting in and like an idiot, Hitler told the German army to keep going even without the right resources to do so, along with the guys from the Siberian front coming to push back. All in all, Stalin was probably one of the least reasons the Soviets won, and was part of the reasons that the Germans were able to get as far as they did.

[@sciencefictionisreal1608]

lol ww2 was a tale of dumbass old men, all jacked up on toxic masculinity, who got handed more authority than any human being should be allowed to have, who got bored and started picking fights.

[@chuckmallett2942]

@@sciencefictionisreal1608 you should write books, you’re so perspicacious 🤡🤡🚑🚑

[@junxi9192]

send this people to a madhouse