The more I learn about khrushchev the more I wonder about the competency of stalin for not purging the doofus.
It’s called the great patriotic war. Over 27 million people were murdered. In the war to save the motherland, nobody was made an exception to not take to the battlefield, not even the Communist party.
Not even mentioning people can at different points of their life be positive figures for socialism and at other points detractors to socialism. We can point to W.E.B Du Bois whom spent the majority of his life as a FDR-esque progressive and imperialism appreciator waited until he was moments from his death bed for his material conditions to lead him into understanding Marxism-Leninism was the correct ideological path. The inverse of being a positive actor for socialism then the conditions that a person finds themselves in can change them into a bad actor, detractor, or worse against socialism.
He did good with Cuba and some other international stuff but otherwise he should’ve been corncobbed
WE COULD’VE HAD IT ALL
I can get it
If you grew up dealing without computers, they would just seem like garbage cans with sparks coming out of them
IBM was working with the Nazis and using computers to tabulate their genocide so it’s reasonable to not be terribly interested
communism is when no mainframe
I’m not saying he was right, but maybe Trotsky had a point that’s all I’m saying.
