Never claimed sainthood fir Stalin and USSR. Only asserted, that everybody else was no better, and that singling SU out is double standard, and re-writing of history by the winners.
I don't give a rat's tail about dictatorship vs democracy. Both have their pros and cons. What you seem to not understand, is that no man can rule a country alone. There is always support, and dictatorships require a lot more support for the rulers from the masses, than democracies.
well, who repatedly claimed that su did have justficiation to invade finsland, poland and baltic states ? if that is not making su saint, the what is ?
and why is conquring of these states thugs metods and not jsutified ? well, you (or your other comrade) keeping blabling about that these states were theat to su, so totaly ok anexing them.
can you show any similiar metods of democratic states from that period ? (1920-1950).
and this is exactly dictatorship brutality applied to state level. on personal evel it is - oh, did you runned away from nazis to us ? to jail with you, you can be spy, and theat to us, same as 10 000s of others. we cant risk at all, even if all of you are innoncent. we dont need to prove anything.
do you see brutalyity and injustice in that ?
in democracy jailing anyone (or atacking another state) without good reason and/or proof is unjustifiable.
and sure, no one can rule country alone, and from where did you get that in dictatorship it need greater support from masses than in democracy ? thats realy rerded idea. in didcatorship you just need support from very small amound of population, you just need power to suppres any dissent or open revolutions, that it why it is docatorship in first place.
thats why dictarorships in first place allways seek to dismarm thier citizens, to reduce chance of sucesfull revolt.
if you have great support from masses...then why to have dicatorship in fist place ? and not have democracy with elections ?
no such thing as democracy or dictatorship propaganda for me, the only matter is what action they do for their country and their people! Did you disdain all your country's kings and heros because they are not democracy?!
no dictatorship propaganda from you ? then why you allways whitewashed stalins crimes and brutality ?
and mayby in your blood loving country anyone can be hero, even one of geratest murderers in hsitory, but in my country no butcher is hero, even if he was king, the he is hated king. we love kings which CARED of thier peoples, not butchered them for no reason.
and what did statlin POSITIVE for his own peoples ?
industrialization ? oh yeah, at price of milion lives lost and other milions of innoncent send to gulag. wow, nice care of them, he must realy loved them. and im sure, that you never thought that same level , or even bigger one, should be done without any civilian lives loses.
defence against nazi invasion, and his ledership ? oh yeah, his order to not shot at german invaders realy helped soviet citizens, especialy ones killed, captured or living on lost territory. or did you meaned that trade deals with nazis which geratly fueled thier war machine ? when trade with nazi oposition was possible too.
so realy tell me, what stalin did positive for his own peoples ? which ones was anyone else incapable.
