I believe in socialism, but I feel Stalin shouldn’t be idolised due to things like the Gulag.

I would like more people to become socialist, but I feel not condemning Stalin doesn’t help the cause.

I’ve tried to have a constructieve conversation about this, but I basically get angry comments calling me stupid for believing he did atrocious things.

That’s not how you win someone over.

I struggle to believe the Gulag etc. Never happened, and if it happened I firmly believe Stalin should be condemned.

  • BrainInABox@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Also, it wasn’t just ‘prison’. Each of them was a concentration camp for politically it otherwise unsound elements

    “It wasn’t a prison! It was [definition of prison]”

    • REEEEvolution@lemmygrad.ml
      2·
      2 days ago

      You know, when you change the name of a thing, you totally change its essence too! Or something like that, I’m no anarchist.