Indeed, at one time liberal to leftist newspapers spoke of the wonders of then-Communist Russia (it no longer is except to neocons) under Stalin, FDR’s administration spoke of how there were ideas implemented by them needing to be implemented here, and some even went so far as to say under them you can’t make an omelet without cracking a few eggs.
That is until Trotsky was cracked by Stalin, and then it seemed much of the libtard media turned on Stalin.
Trotsky was one who advocated injecting race into the discussion, wanting to add it to the “class struggle” to supposedly advocate for the racially downtrodden.
People forget that Communists were in the forefront of the Isolationist movement, until Hitler invaded the Soviet Union.
You are insane. Trotskyites were always a small minority. They never turned on Stalin. Even after Khrushchev's speech denouncing Stalin.