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QUESTION!! Would the outcome of the USSR be better if Stalin was not in control? If he had not commenced the Gulags, would the USSR still be here and would communist/socialism spread out of the USSR?
Okay, so I would consider myself a socialist/communist. I’m actually currently looking into Marxism and other forms and types of socialism and communism. I was wondering if the fall of the USSR would have been different if Stalin had not ruled. There were definitely some benefits to the USSR, but the many deaths in the USSR from these gulags contributed to the propaganda that the Americans were fed by the CIA, which was that the USSR was a horrible place where it was a dictatorship (the documents that state this are in the CIA’s ‘declassified’ folder thing). It was not, but that’s what we were told. If anyone has any theories or thoughts abt this please comment! I’d love to hear your thoughts! :)
u/sistercainn — 1 day ago