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j_overgrens@feddit.nl 3 days agoStalin took an already establishing economy and rearranged it towards national capital while killing Jews en masse and allied with Nazi’s.
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j_overgrens@feddit.nl 3 days agoStalin took an already establishing economy and rearranged it towards national capital while killing Jews en masse and allied with Nazi’s.
Allero@lemmy.today 3 days ago
Already establishing? What does that even mean, lol
Stalin also didn’t promote national capital - aside from the fact the word “capital” does not reflect quite the same thing in the context of socialism, the policy of “socialism in a separate country” is nothing more than a reaction to the failure of world revolution. He continued international partnerships with socialist countries and participated in The Communist International.
Soviet Union did not genocide Jews and was not tied to Holocaust. The alliance with Nazis only held through the first stage of WWII as long as it was seen more as a contained European issue. It is true, however, that Soviet Union participated in occupation of Poland.
j_overgrens@feddit.nl 3 days ago
It means the USSR was already industrializing – and Stalin made sure that process would be (1) tightly controlled by the state & (2) would benefit primarily the imperial core of Russia.
If you think capital does not bear relevance to the development of the USSR, you have not understood Leninism.
The USSR killed Jews en masse, mostly as elements of a ‘cosmopolitan bourgeoisie’ (clear antisemitic dogwhistle) or simply as Jews. He also directed his cabinet to collaborate with the Nazi’s in their holocaust, firing Litvinov as FM and installing Molotov with clear instructions to comply with the Nazi’s. Heck, even Khrushchev admitted that Stalin died on the cusp of engineering a holocaust of his own. I will refrain on commenting how he treated other minorities.