Seven decades later they tremble at his name. For the bourgeoisie, capitalists and exploiters, he is the personification of evil. For fascists and neo-Nazis, his image is enough to cause nightmares. Social Democrats, opportunists and other enemies of the working class movement have been trying for many decades to slander him with tones of lies and propaganda.
On March 5, 1953, 70 years ago, Joseph Vissarionovich Dzughasvilli, the man whose leadership influenced the course of the 20th century like very few others, left his last breath at his dacha in Kunchevo. The next day, in a joint statement published in “Pravda”, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU), the USSR Council of Ministers and the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet were announcing the death of Stalin:
Showing posts with label Stalinism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Stalinism. Show all posts
Monday, March 13, 2023
On the 70th death anniversary of Joseph Stalin
By Nikos Mottas.
Tuesday, December 18, 2018
Truth and lies about Stalin - An exclusive interview with Grover Furr
On the ocassion of the 140th birth anniversary of Joseph Stalin we asked Professor Grover Furr to share with us his thoughts on some issues surrounding Stalin and the period of his leadership. Grover Furr, a Professor of medieval english literature at Montclair State University in New Jersey, is well-known for his research and writings on a vast range of issues about Soviet history. Some of his most famous books include "Khrushchev Lied", "The Moscow Trials as Evidence", Trotsky’s "Amalgams", "The Mystery of the Katyn Massacre: The Evidence, The Solution" and others. The name of Grover Furr is included in the list of the "101 most dangerous academics in America".
Saturday, February 10, 2018
Stalin’s Ghost Haunts Capitalism
A
Riposte to Stephen Kotkin’s ‘Stalin: Waiting for Hitler,
1929-1941’
By
Raj Sahai*.
Source: Marxism-Leninism today.
Princeton
University historian Stephen Kotkin is writing a monumental
three-volume biography of Joseph Stalin. Kotkin’s is the latest in
a large number of books on Stalin, starting with Isaac Deutscher in
1949. So, why yet another book on Stalin?
Kotkin
says Stalin represents a “gold standard” in “personal
dictatorship”, and more archival documents are now accessible, so
now a definitive biography of Stalin can finally be written. He takes
Isaac Deutscher’s three-volume biography of Trotsky as a model for
his own work. Published in 2015, Kotkin’s first volume was titled
‘Stalin: Paradoxes of Power 1878 - 1928’. Volume 2, published in
November 2017, is titled ‘Stalin: Waiting for Hitler, 1929 –
1941’.
Monday, January 1, 2018
“Gulag Archipelago”: Exposing the anticommunist fabrications of Solzhenitsyn
By Nikos Mottas*.
One
of the most famous and celebrated works of Alexandr Solzhenitsyn, the
“Gulag Archipelago”, has been for a long time a kind of “holy
bible” for every anticommunist. Firstly published in 1973, it-
supposedly- consists an analytical record of the conditions existed
in the so-called “labour camps” of the Soviet Union. Within the
framework of the slanderous anticommunist campaign, bourgeois
historiography has extensively promoted Solzhenitsyn's work as a
source of arguments about the so-called “Stalinist dictatorship”
and “communist crimes” in the Soviet Union.
However,
there is a fundamental problem in the work of the deeply reactionary
Solzhenitsyn: Gulag Archipelago is a completely antiscientific book,
based almost entirely in rumors, speculations, third party opinions
as well as interpretations of opinions by Solzenitsyn himself! In
other words, the reader of this book becomes “hostage” of a novel
type, unverifiable, recording to alleged events by Solzenitsyn and
others who supposedly “saw”, “heard” or “learned”
something.
Friday, July 7, 2017
Russia's bourgeois class still trembles at the sight of Stalin: The Moscow State Law Academy incident
Sixty-four years have been passed since the biological death of Joseph Stalin and, still, the bolshevik leader creates nightmares to the bourgeois class. They fear his legacy, his name, even his portraits or plaques which refer to him.
According to an Agence France-Presse report (which is full of stereotypical anti-communist references to "Stalin's repression"), everything started when the Moscow State Law University last month reinstated a Soviet-era plaque marking a speech delivered there by Stalin in 1924. The plaque had been removed in the 1960s. A former student launched an online petition in order to have the plaque removed, while a defense lawyer called Genri Reznik and professors of another college break their ties with the university in protest.
Sunday, August 14, 2016
The remorse of a dissident: Alexander Zinoviev on Stalin and the dissolution of the USSR
SPECIAL TO IN DEFENSE OF COMMUNISM.
Alexander Zinoviev (1922-2006) was a Russian philosopher, sociologist, mathematician and writer. He is an extraordinary case of a dissident in the Soviet Union who later apologized for his anti-sovietism and anti-stalinism. In his youth, in 1939, he was arrested for allegedly involved in a plot to assassinate Joseph Stalin. As a head and professor of the Logic Department at Moscow State University, Zinoviev acquired a dissident reputation. In 1978 he left the Soviet Union - he lived in Western Europe until 1999.
Having the opportunity to live both the socialist system in the USSR and Western Europe's capitalism, Zinoviev made a u-turn in his thoughts after the counterrevolutionary events in the Soviet Union (1989-1991). He profoundly regreted for his previous anti-soviet stance and even asked from the Russian people to forgive him for that.
He wrote in one of his books:
Wednesday, August 3, 2016
Solzhenitsyn — The rotten legacy of a Fascist
It
was August 3, 2008 when the “Patriarch” of anti-communism,
Alexandr Solzhenitsyn, died. The writings of Solzhenitsyn became a
major source of anti-Soviet hysteria and blatant slanders
against the first socialist state. Even today, Solzhenitsyn's major
work “The Gulag Archipelago” is, more or less, regarded as the
anti-communist “bible” of the world's apologists of capitalism
and anti-soviet propaganda.
The supposed “honest” testimonies of
Solzhenitsyn- which he was never able to prove- were used in the
building of an anti-stalinist, anti-communist obsession which the
West had so much need to base upon, especially after the end of WW2.
However,
who was really this nobel prize-winning Russian and how much
credibility do his anti-soviet fairy tales contain?
Monday, April 11, 2016
How many people did Joseph Stalin really kill?
Source: anti-imperialism.com.
When
discussing the merits and achievements of the Soviet Union,
detractors of various stripes, from anti-communist to anti-Leninist,
often point to a 2013 International Business Times article named “How
Many People Did Joseph Stalin Kill?” by Palash Ghosh. The article, which depicts Soviet leader J. V. Stalin
as an inhuman cold-blooded mass murderer, claims that up to 60
million people, nearly one-third of the USSR’s 1941 population,
were killed on the part of the government and the leadership of the
country.[1][2] But do these figures actually hold up? Through a
careful read of the article, one can find glaring problems with the
logic and the conclusion and deduce that the article is not much more
than crude propaganda.
The
article, having been published on the 60th anniversary of Stalin’s
death, introduces Stalin as “one of history’s most prolific
killers”, proceeding to list various events as atrocities. Included
in the list are “imprisonment in labor camps”, “manufactured
famines” and “forced displacements”, all of which are implied
to be inherently atrocious like the other items listed. While these
are indeed atrocious events, this should raise the question of
hypocrisy, as a neo-liberal news publication lists these events with
the intention of portraying a socialist leader as a “prolific
killer” when historically they have happened on a number of
occasions in the imperialist states and their semi-feudal colonies à
la the American internment of Japanese and Germans in World War II,
the systematic depopulation of indigenous lands by the US government,
and the number of famines in British India in the 19th and 20th
centuries. One might in response concede that the USSR was by no
means alone if it is responsible for such atrocities,
but,nevertheless,
the actions of other nations does not absolve the Soviet Union. This
is true. Therefore, we move on to see Ghosh’s backing for the
assertion of Stalin as a mass murderer.
Thursday, April 7, 2016
Robert Conquest's lies about Socialism, Stalin and the USSR - A presentation by Mario Sousa (VIDEO)
Source: ProletarianTV.
This presentation by Mario Sousa - less than an hour in duration - will change your view of history. "Most sane and educated people accept that there were serious human rights abuses in the Soviet Union, during the Stalin period." he says. The evidence is 'everywhere' - everyone says so, and there's no smoke without fire, after all. But what is the evidence? And where does it come from?
Tuesday, March 1, 2016
Mario Sousa- Lies concerning the history of the Soviet Union
From Hitler to Hearst, from Conquest to Solzhenitsyn.
The history of the millions of people who were allegedly incarcerated and died in the labour camps of the Soviet Union and as a result of starvation during Stalin’s time.
In this world we live in, who can avoid hearing the terrible stories of suspected death and murders in the gulag labour camps of the Soviet Union? Who can avoid the stories of the millions who starved to death and the millions of oppositionists executed in the Soviet Union during Stalin’s time? In the capitalist world these stories are repeated over and over again in books, newspapers, on the radio and television, and in films, and the mythical numbers of millions of victims of socialism have increased by leaps and bounds in the last 50 years.
But where in fact do these stories, and these figures, come from? Who is behind all this?
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