Stalin wasn't a perfect saint nor a horrendous monster. Stalin was a real socialist, with personal failings and mistakes, but also real victories and advancements as the leader of the first socialist state in its most turbulent era.

Demystifying Stalin

I know that after my death a pile of rubbish will be heaped on my grave, but the wind of History will sooner or later sweep it away without mercy.

J. V. Stalin

Nia Frome's "Tankies"

[8 min]

W. E. B Dubois' On Stalin

[6 min]

Domenico Losurdo's Primitive Thinking and Stalin as Scapegoat

[30 min]

Domenico Losurdo's Stalin and Stalinism in History

[16 min]

J. V. Stalin interviewed by H. G. Wells

[42 min]

J. V. Stalin interviewed by Emil Ludwig

[38 min]

J. V. Stalin interviewed by Roy Howard

[9 min]

Domenico Losurdo's Stalin: The History and Critique of a Black Legend

[5 hr 51 min]

Ludo Martens' Another View of Stalin

[5 hr 25 min]

Anna Louise Strong's This Soviet World

Stalin's Major Theoretical Contributions to Marxism

I have come to communism because of daddy Stalin and nobody must come and tell me that I mustn’t read Stalin. I read him when it was very bad to read him. That was another time. And because I’m not very bright, and a hard-headed person, I keep on reading him. Especially in this new period, now that it is worse to read him. Then, as well as now, I still find a Seri of things that are very good.

Che Guevara

[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Che, please don't call him that.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Yea it's a bit iffy, lol.

[–] Grapho@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I swear it don't sound as bad in Spanish lmao, "papi" can even be something you call a friend

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 month ago

Oh, gotcha! Makes sense, my spanish is super rusty and I didn't think about the different context it would have in spanish.

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