Stalin lied people died

lol soviet military historians like Geoffrey Roberts all recognize that Stalin was a key figure in Soviet military as an integral positive force

Even Zhukov after falling out with Stalin and DeStalinazation had positive things to say about Stalin military influence

Zhukov great general he was but anyone praising him but can’t even mention a single other soviet military general is the biggest sign ur talking to a dimwit who doesn’t know what he’s talking about

yeah Stalin blundered the first part of the war but the fact he was able to come back from it speaks volumes as well

also what’s with modern liberal historical revisionism that tries to paint Stalin as an incompetent buffon, he literally saved y’all world order!

one historian

i’m never gonna fw him anyway he did bad things. not as bad as what nazis claim he did but bad enough to be called a bad guy

One more than you ever read, make it less obvious you got all ur historical knowledge from pop history . Also Alfred Reiber and Ian Kershaw and i can name more

and idc about him as a bad person or whatever u think about him, i’m talking about him as a historical figure that you know nothing about evident when u tried to downplay his role as a military strategist

my favourite historian is timothy snyder but sure

ctfu ur a walking caricature

whatever you think of him the guys serious and i don’t see much proving him wrong at all

We can tell

Snyder? i hardly know her!

He messed it up for em don’t get it twisted

Stalin was the savior of 20th century western european liberalism

My favorite basketball player is Kwame Brown

let’s be real- everybody on earth has a set ontological and political position. they then find reputable historians to support their view. if this wasn’t the case you guys would have way stronger opinions on what the soviets did to the warsaw uprising.

The amount of priority given to this or that wrongdoing is a matter of bias, which is indeed applicable to the vast majority of people of any political tendency. But what is not applicable to all is the shallowness of ones a***ysis as is the case with Snyder on "totalitarianism" or "tyranny"

you know what i can run with this kind of criticism of someone’s priors and 2D vision of political philosophy. that’s a valid critique and not just claiming bros not a reputable historian(which is most definitely what others do)

because even if your critique holds, there’s far more to his work that exists separate from all that

Genuinely what value does Snyder add that other historians who are specialized in Soviet history like Getty or even the conservative anti-communist Kotkin don't already?

equating Nazis with the ussr so Liberals can run their modern historical revisionism to further their political goals

he quite clearly states that the nazis killed many more. you don’t have to absolve or draw equivalence

Add him to Mount Commiemore

Stalin fumbled the revolution but if you have any more hate for him than all the european colonizers and slavers you are just a fascist

Dark Brandon about to push the socialism button?