• Cowbee [he/him]@lemmy.ml
    42·
    2 months ago

    I wonder why books published by an Anticommunist country that went through a decades long scare would have anticommunist grifters with anticommunist opinions. I am also curious why said anticommunists also happen to be islamophobic, pro-NATO, Zionist, pro-Imperialism, and have ties to the Military Industrial Complex.

    • Kusimulkku@lemm.ee
      22·
      2 months ago

      Khlevniuk is Russia. Not that I’d consider the nationality the thing I use to judge historians.

        • Kusimulkku@lemm.ee
          23·
          2 months ago

          We were talking about them both. You chose to focus on only one of them, despite both making the claim about Stalin being a dictator.

          • Cowbee [he/him]@lemmy.ml
            42·
            2 months ago

            Because I didn’t bother with the second after realizing you believe a fascist-written opinion piece to be worthy of respect.

            • Kusimulkku@lemm.ee
              21·
              2 months ago

              I was under the impression it was the claims we were discussing, which Khlevniuk’s book seem to support, not what or who deserves our respect. For that reason it might be worthwhile to check that out too. Totally up to you of course.

              • Cowbee [he/him]@lemmy.ml
                32·
                2 months ago

                Respect, as in accept the opinions. Nothing you have shown has supported the idea that Stalin could not be opposed, and was not opposed, nor that he was all-powerful.

                • Kusimulkku@lemm.ee
                  21·
                  2 months ago

                  We were talking about whether Stalin was a dictator or not. Khlevniuk’s Stalin: A New Biography of a Dictator makes that case.

                  Stalin could not be opposed, and was not opposed, nor that he was all-powerful.

                  Even Hitler wasn’t a dictator on those grounds. And I think he is considered the epitome of a modern day dictator.