Top 10 Anime Villains EXTRAS (Stalin's Deleted Scenes: The Aftermath, Sino-Soviet split, Neocons.)

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This is the bonus DLC/DELETED SCENES portion of the Stalin thread, featuring opinions of niggas who disagreed with Stalin or his ideas on how to communism (e.g. the Sino-Soviet split).

All excerpts courtesy of David Priestland's "The Red Flag: History of Communism" (2009).

Content

1. Trotsky's communism
2. Trotsky influence on the early neo-conservatives
3. Chinese Communism I: Mao (Stalin 2: Electric Boogaloo)
4. Chinese Communism II: The Sino-Soviet split and its influence on the Third World
5. Chinese Communism III: No true Scotsman-ing Russia (lit af Russia Diss)
6. Stalin's Russia's standard of living
7. Stalin's reaction to Russian people complaining about Russia's standard of living

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1

"Trotskyism was a leftist, Radical branch of Bolshevism, and its ideas were typical of the various left oppositions that had existed within the Soviet party since 1917. It championed a revival of ‘socialist democracy’, and denounced Stalinism for its authoritarianism. But it did not advocate pluralist, liberal democracy. It adhered to the Marxist-Leninist commitment to the single, vanguard party, though politics and the economy were to be run in a participatory way."

2

"The Trotskyists were the first serious champions of the idea that Nazism and Stalinist Communism had to be compared, and were both ‘totalitarian’ regimes"

[...]

"[M]any American Trotskyists found even Trotsky too indulgent towards Stalinism, and [...] the party split[.] Max Schachtman created a new ‘Workers’ Party’, more hostile to Stalinism than the orthodox Trotskyists. He, like several other American Trotskyists, were to become Cold Warriors, and by the 1960s were to constitute the core of an influential group of militant liberals – the ‘neo-conservatives’ [...]. They develop[ed] the intellectual firepower for a counter-revolution against the socialist and Third-Worldist vision of equality.

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3

Maoism

"Mao’s position after the end of the ‘Great Leap’ in 1960–1 resembled Stalin’s after the ‘Great Break’ in 1931–3. He realized that his vaulting ambitions and populism had caused chaos. He also accepted that ‘retreat’ from Radicalism towards a more technocratic form of Communism was necessary. The Great Leap was abandoned."

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"In some ways, then, Mao was (unconsciously) following Stalin’s path in the 1930s. Having led disastrous economic ‘leaps’, both had been forced to restore order, which in turn entrenched officials and other leaders. Both then tried to increase their power over the party, by undermining any potential rivals in the leadership. At the same time they launched ideological campaigns, purging non-believers or ‘rightists’ from the bureaucracy – Stalin in the Terror and Mao in the Cultural Revolution. Both campaigns also rapidly escalated out of control. But Mao was much more radical in his methods and goals. Stalin preserved hierarchy, and relied on the secret police; Mao returned to the guerrilla socialism of Yan’an and mobilized the masses in the hope of creating the new socialist man. Mao, then, was not merely imposing his will on the party; he was launching, as he saw it, a Communist revolution within a Communist state – a revolution that in effect became, uniquely, a civil war within the Communist Party, and amongst the population as a whole" and managed to be responsible for the death of 70 million people."

4

"Following the Sino-Soviet split of the late 1950s, meanwhile, the Chinese provided stiff competition to Moscow in its quest for Third World influence. In the early 1960s, Zhou Enlai and Liu Shaoqi crisscrossed Africa and Asia, and visited large numbers of non-aligned leaders from Burma to Egypt, from Algeria to Ethiopia. The Chinese now presented themselves as a radical alternative to the Soviets and strong opponents of the policy of ‘peaceful coexistence’ with the West. In 1965, Lin Biao, the radical military leader, argued that Chinese guerrilla experience was much more suited to freedom struggles in agrarian societies than the Soviet model."

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"The Indonesian party was one of the main allies of the Chinese, but Beijing also funded the Vietnamese and a number of African and Middle Eastern non-Communist regimes and independence movements."

5

"The Chinese message was an appealing one for many Third World Communists. As the head of the powerful Indonesian Communist Party, Dipa Aidit, told a foreign Communist delegation, Communist regimes like the Soviet one would inevitably become ‘“rich fat cats” at the expense of backward countries and will lose their revolutionary spirit’. He was particularly exercised by the fact that he had paid much more for a shirt in Moscow than in New York, and even then the quality had been distinctly inferior – proof-positive that the Russians were even more money-grubbing than the Americans."

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6

"In 1951 a certain Mishchenko, of the Molotov military academy in the city of Kalinin (formerly, and now, Tver), reported on the visible poverty in its centre:

If the secretaries of the… party committees take a walk along the streets of the regional centre [Kalinin], they would notice that some kind of beggar is sitting on almost every street corner. It gives the impression that the centre of the town of Kalinin is beggarly. Citizens of the countries of the [Communist] people’s democracies study at the Molotov Academy. There is one indigent near the post office, who without fail seeks them out and begs. They will go home and say that the town of Kalinin is full of beggars.

Mishchenko’s priorities were typical of the late-Stalinist elite. Poverty and inequality within the USSR were less important than international status, and after World War II Stalin sacrificed the living standards of Soviet citizens to the needs of the crippling Cold War arms race."

7

"One political officer, charged with repatriating Soviet citizens who had sought sanctuary in neutral Sweden, reported that, ‘After they have seen the untroubled life [in Sweden], certain individuals among our repatriated [citizens] draw the incorrect conclusion that Sweden is a rich country and that people live well.’8 But some even claimed that they were better fed and treated as German prisoners of war than they had been in the Red Army. Unsurprisingly Stalin suspected all ex-prisoners of war of anti-Soviet thinking, and on their homecoming many were despatched to the Gulag."