Also: not fully denouncing Stalin and Lenin means not fully denouncing communism...which continues to kill millions. It means not attributing responsibility to the USSR for the world order it shaped to the detriment of so many innocent people who either perish, suffered, or led wasted lives in repressive darkness.
> Also: not fully denouncing Stalin and Lenin means not fully denouncing communism...which continues to kill millions. It means not attributing responsibility to the USSR for the world order it shaped to the detriment of so many innocent people who either perish, suffered, or led wasted lives in repressive darkness.
There you go again with the anti-Russia hysteria.
You sound just like WaPo, NY Times, & CNN going after Trump when he refused to “denounce”, on their terms, anyone that they associated with white supremacy.
When did pro forma denunciations become a thing anyway? That is a Communist practice, literally.
Major world leaders don’t do “struggle sessions” when the corporate media demands it. They tell them to go to hell, or if being nice, to win an election if they want to call the shots.
Not sure what you mean by not fully denouncing Stalin, Lenin, Communism, the USSR, and the real and actual harm done to hundreds of millions of people throughout the world. Do not forget the effect that Mao had in China and what communism has done to Korea, Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos. No rational , reflective, decent person can fail to see the harm and tragedy.
Yet history, its lessons and consequences must be analyzed without the blinders of political correctness or the passionate wishing that actual events were not what they were.
Stalin was alcoholic, paranoid, cruel and murderous. Yet he once held power, made decisions, inspired others ( through fear and other means.) His legacy continues to affect our times. It continues to affect us the way the Kaiser and Hitler’s decisions to wage wars in 1914 and 1945 that fundamentally altered Western culture continues to affect us. Best to understand these people,study their actions and motivations however bad they were, and interpret them objectively if we hope to understand our current state and the immediate future.