Comment on .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this
frisbird@lemmy.ml 2 days agowww.cia.gov/…/CIA-RDP80-00810A006000360009-0.pdf
Even in Stalin’s time there was collective leadership. The Western idea of a dictator within the Communist setup is exaggerated. Misunderstandings on that subject are caused by a lack of comprehension of the real nature and organization of the Communist’s power structure. Stalin, although holding wide powers, was merely captain of a team
Source: The C.I.A.
T00l_shed@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Oh, is the cia a trust worthy source? I keep getting mixed messages from ml
Pissed@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
When it comes to the governments they’re spying on, I’d say yeah it’s a decent source. Whether ALL agents who were spying on the USSR were saying this is a different matter.
T00l_shed@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Yeah, no the cia isn’t a great source. Its like saying the kgb is a great source, sure there could be some validity, but overall it’s a propaganda machine
Pissed@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
Lol intelligence agencies internal documents aren’t part of the propaganda machine why would the CIA produce pro Stalin propaganda? OK maybe there was a double agent in the CIA that could be possible, but to say that they produce propaganda internally to show each other is a very weird thing to say. What’s the point of having an intelligence agency that classifies its documents if they’re just going to publish lies internally? You have the press to publish propaganda. I’m sorry your argument is just really bad. If you wanted to make a good argument you would go into the files and check what other agents were saying and cross reference them with this report, not just dismiss it because it came from the CIA. Most historians would give both their hands to have access to classified documents there is a reason why documents like this stay classified. I assume all this stuff was declassified after the Cold War
youtu.be/n7FndCC9efg
There is a cool video about Marx guess what it draws from classified documents that various police agencies in Europe had on Marx (some of them are still classified BTW) why the fuck would spies waste their time producing propaganda for other spies on their own side?
Pissed@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
You do realise these are internal documents right? I’d say an intelligence agencies declassified documents are an amazing source.