Does Stalin need rehabilitating among the Democrats? Did he ever stop being a hero to the left?
“Does Stalin need rehabilitating among the Democrats? Did he ever stop being a hero to the Left?”
Not so much a hero, since Stalin’s first victims were socialists, social democrats, & Trotskyists, but he serves as a convenient excuse.
The now undeniable horrors of Stalin’s USSR enables the Left to argue that “true socialism hasn’t been tried yet!” or, “The wrong people were in charge!” or, “It (USSR) wasn’t what we wanted!”
But does the Left go green with envy at Stalin’s power to make his opponents disappear by the tens of thousands?
You darn skippy they do!