What was Stalin's attitude toward fascism?

>>2136172
Wasn't that fond of it i think.

Why Stalin is so smug on that picture?

>>2136172
More like, "what was Stalin's attitude towards anything?"

Guy is such a strange figure.

Stalin a good boy he just trying to build communism n shiet

he wasn't evil everyone he killed or sent to gulag genuinely deserved it for being counter revolutionary n shiet

stalin just wanted to give the world the gift of communism but he will be remembered as evil forever n shiet

>>2136172
He was a fan of the style at least since he seemed to be a pretty big fan boy of hitler before the war.

>>2136192

I know this gets overused these days to describe controversial or ruthless leaders but I really think he might have been a psychopath. Like legit lacking in empathy, narcissistic, self-seeking, cunning. Paranoid. I mean how many long-term relationships did that guy have? He offed just about every one of his revolutionary buddies from the old guard.

>>2136221
apparently he hated his mother too

>>2136181
He knows that the party won't fall behind Trotsky because he's a jumpy Jew and that he holds enough power over the party bureaucracy to pack the central committee with his own loyal appointees.

By 1922, Stalin had surely already decided he wanted to run the zoo.

>>2136172
He was sympathetic of it, fellow totalitarians in the struggle to destroy dissidents, kill personal freedoms and all.

>>2136225
He was actually quite fond of her, was even willing to make room for her in the Kremlin palace.

>>2136192
Not really, he's just a normal three-dimensional human being.

Joseph Stalin was a staunch Marxist with a strong distrust of others and little concern for short-term consequences. Once you understand this, his actions all generally make sense.

>>2136208
This is all true. Stalin was genuinely driven by empathy, not that that it excuses his brutal actions.

>>2136242
Except his actions are anti marxist and disastrous in the long term.

>>2136221

Yeah this is bullshit. Stalin was probably the biggest social justice warrior in history since Jesus. He was driven completely by ending the exploitation of the lower classes by filthy rich capitalists. Anyone that has done even a tiny bit of objective research into him would know this.

>>2136236
>largely responsible for the destruction of the most powerful fascist country in history
>millions of his soldiers and citizens die to destroy fascism

>"he was sympathetic"

someone post the the pic with yuri.

>>2136285
He turned a war-torn backwards semi-industrialized society into one of two world super-powers.

Sure he didn't establish communism but that is simply because no one in his shoes could.

The revolution failed by 1922 and the bolsheviks were left isolated with an insufficiently developed industrial base and proletariat.

>>2136172
He was a fascist.

>>2136285
He believed it was good to do bad things to achieve the ultimate peace and justice of communism

>>2136192
Is it not quite clear he wanted power for its own sake?

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>>2136247
Might be. Though after his personal losses i recall he wrote in his diary that he had lost whatever empathy he had left for anyone.

>>2136384
He actually was sympathetic initially

>>2136181
because that image was taken during the time lenin was sick. stalin wanted to potray himself as a super close friend to lenin so that he could fool others into thinking that he would be the successor to the soviet union. of course, he didn't need to do this, he was secretary general anyways - he would have been the successor regardless. trotsky, by then, was already in shit health and barely had any supporters left.

of course, lenin pretty much argued with stalin every time he came over the visit the sick bastard.

>>2136221
Psychopathy isn't a binary condition.

>>2136868
to be fair though, Lenin argued with fucking everybody

>>2136878
yeah, his testament/will is funny as shit. literally denounced EVERY potential successor, but he still named trotsky as the most 'viable' candidate to continue ruling the soviet union.

of course, the commies were too pussy to show this will to the public - so they just swept it under the rug out of fear of losing support.

>>2136307

>comparing Stalin to Jesus with a straight face

take a minute and consider his actions with care

>people unironically trying to rehabilitate motherfucking Stalin

wew. lad.

His attitude was a pragmatic one. He had no problems making a deal with the Nazis to split up Poland, but since it was an ideology in the long-run incompatible with his rule and its ideological groundwork, he probably wanted to see it pummeled into the ground. That is, he wasn't a college little shit that went hysterical over fascism, but he was going to wipe it out nonetheless.

>>2136860
>I'm sympathetic for the political movement, which promotes the so-called Unity of Workers, Bourgeosie and Church, even though it's a dictatorship of bourgeosie and military generals.
J.Stalin. Selected works, p. 1488, published by Bullshit Press, Sealand, 2016

Didn't he call Nazi Germany the "a German worker's state" at some point?
That was pre-june 1941.
Can't find a source.

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>>2137306
>not being a dictator apologist and genocide denier

Where do you think you are?

>>2136172

he seemed to like it since he was one

>>2137306

>edgy retarded kids worshipping some brutal dictator

not a surprise

>>2137529
this

>>2137327
No.

There's a historical desire to lump the big two together and have the west separate so as to draw a clear line between the goodies and the baddies.

The reality is Stalin had a crazy right-wing power close to his borders and knew war with them was inevitable.