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I too like to compare leaders from two different time periods and apply the same standard. When was stonewall? How is the LGBT community treated in the US today? Brandon just watching as chuds agitate against LGBT community and does nothing
The Institute of Sex Research was burned down in 1933. It wasn't a "different time", it was a time with the same political issues and the same Nazi rhetoric attacking trans people. Had something been done to prevent the rise of the Nazis and protect the Institute of Sex Research, trans healthcare would be 50 years ahead in technology and we wouldn't be facing the same issues today. But Genocide Joe (the Russian one) opted not to do anything about the Nazis until 8 years later when Hitler brought the war to Russia.
Genocide Joe was aware of the issues. He chose not to protect trans people, and he chose to persecute gay people. Marx said a worldwide revolution would be required, but Joe said fuck that, homosexuality is bourgeois, and stayed in Russia. He is in large part responsible for the current plight of LGBT people.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institut_f%C3%BCr_Sexualwissenschaft
That was in Germany. How is Stalin responsible for that?
Stalin famously siding with the Nazis her and the Soviets not crushing them in WW2
You're comparing apples and oranges
Stalin should have marched on Berlin in 1933, or ideally sooner. That's what Marx said to do. Stalin was a failure of a Marxist and he failed the world.
He also shouldn't have outlawed homosexuality in Russia, but I think you and I already agree on that.
Armchair general here telling us what should've been done.
Yes I do agree that was indeed a shit move.
If I'm an armchair general, then so was Marx, who said the same things I'm saying, and so was the USSR's own People's Commissar of Internal Affairs, Maxim Litvinov. People were telling Stalin that Germany was a threat, and that worldwide communism was required. Stalin ignored communist theory and he ignored members of his own government. And what did his Russia actually do in the end? It signed trade agreements from 1935 to 1939, supplying Hitler with raw materials for the Nazi war machine.
Stalin was an incompetent fool when it came to foreign policy with the Nazis. If he'd had a shred of common decency, he would have tried to do something about the holocaust OTHER THAN helping the Nazis.
There's Marxists today is inside and outside of China recognizing that the US is a threat to China and that the US is supporting a genocide in Palestine. China should just go ahead and nuke the US now, otherwise they are helping the US to commit and support it's atrocities, right?
My reply is totally unrelated to this thread. You seem to be very amped up about this. Reading your comments in this thread you really have a strong opinion on the USA, which is not your country. Which means you have as much influence in it as I do, basically none. My question/point, do you know why you're so amped up about this?
Stalin tried to form an anti-Nazi coalition with France, UK, etc and they refused.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/stalin-first-tried-to-resist-hitler-with-great-britain-11589838192
Also a pact of non aggresion to win time is barely an alliance
Maxim Litvinov was responsible for opening those talks, and a year later, Stalin fired him for being Jewish and understandably anti-nazi.
Stalin's antisemitism is a myth. Antisemitism was punishable by death and there still were plenty of Jews present in the party. Shortly after the second world war the Jewish Autonomous Oblast was formed in the USSR to provide a safe haven for Jews.
Stalin was anti Nazi even before Hitler took power.