Comment on YSK that Joseph Stalin created the Great Terror. He started killing people randomly including artists, generals, doctors, scientists, government officials. Everyone was terrified.

emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• ActualCommunistLearning@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Literally what I was thinking. Trotsky indirectly (but still probably intentionally) catching strays lol

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  • BilSabab@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Trotsky was equally as bad as Stalin actually. He was very good at reframing it after his exile but that doesn’t mean he isn’t neck deep in blood as well.

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• BilSabab@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  while overly simplified - the statement is technically correct - Trotsky was a big proponent of state terror campaigns and disproportional use of force to quell civil unrest. Stalin took this framework and developed it further into fully functional system. Trotsky also started the camp system that evolved into GULAG. He was also very dismissive about comrade Coba and this arrogance eventually did him in and led to his exile and later assassination.

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  • manuallybreathing@lemmy.ml ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The prison system in the soviet union was pretty similar to the system in place by the tsar - gather the problems up, send them to siberia. A new system that gestates in the womb of the old will have to struggle to shake these things, or whatever marx said.

    but nah man, stalin invented prisons, go off

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    • BilSabab@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      the tsarist prison system was nowhere near as elaborate and infrastructurally sophisticated as GULAG and it wasn’t integrated into the economy so the comparison is dubious at best.

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      • Diva@lemmy.ml ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Gulags were a practice that started under the tsar, deaths went down under soviet governance and eventually they ended it Image

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      • pucker4676@lemmy.ml ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I’m not sure how any westerner can complain about the prisons in the USSR with the state of the prison system in the US empire today. Spoiler alert, it’s worse in the US today.

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  • emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Nah, a normal person would have said ‘inspired by Lenin’. OP is either dumb as rocks or AI.

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