Thread by @DemokratieDr

After the German fascism under Hitler (as an instrument to secure domination of the ruling families of the gigantic fortunes) was defeated by the communist Soviet Red Army under Stalin, the ruling families of the gigantic fortunes, the fascism-makers, were faced with the task,

to overcome the deep anti-capitalist consciousness in the majority of the population of Europe, in order to prevent the masses from their really historical task,

the radical overcoming of the rule of the families of the gigantic fortunes, i.e. the material and personal preconditions of (also German) fascism.

I recall the CDU's Ahlen Programme, which Adenauer finally signed reluctantly in 1947.
In 1947, the term socialism was still used correctly and even large parts of the CDU were anti-capitalist!

The systematic anti-communism fomented by propaganda after 1945 and the defamation of Stalin transformed anti-capitalism into anti-communism. Anti-communism, like direct fascism before it, served to bring the masses into line internally - under pluralist cloaks, of course -

and to unite them externally in the interests of the ruling families of the gigantic fortunes. Anti-communism served as a social disciplining tool that was used against any uncontrolled opposition outside the controlled pseudo opposition.

The model became the FBI's #COINTELPRO programme and the McCarthy madness in the USA, the predecessors of today's wokeness.

Since the massive propaganda in the cold war after 1945 to secure the rule of the families of the gigantic fortunes, of the fascism-mongers, a crude anti-capitalism and the image of Stalinism as dictatorial, totalitarian arbitrary and coercive rule, as dogmatism,

as unfreedom and regimentation of all areas of social life, the gulags, the Holodomor, forced collectivism and the planned economy in contrast to the "free market economy" has taken root in the majority of Western societies.

The successes, the circumstances and the practical dissolution of the Stalinist social contract after the assassination of Stalin (1953) and especially after the 20th Party Congress of the CPDSU (1956) by Stalin's murderers Khrushchev and Mikoyan

were not taken note of by the majority of people in the West. Stalinism, which had temporarily defeated fascism in Germany in 1945, but not the fascism-mongers, especially the US, was systematically equated with fascism, which facilitated the repression of one's own fascist past.

Most of them vehemently reject Stalin and Stalinism, even with hatred, without ever having read an honest biography of Stalin or knowing what exactly Stalinism is, what successes and mistakes Stalin made and ...

why and what historical alternatives existed for Stalin or the young communist Soviet Union at that time. This is still important for us today if we want to learn from the past.

An honest analysis of Stalin's government and Stalinism includes the specific Russian history as a still medieval, partly already capitalist monarchy (tsardom) at the time of the revolution, the lack of a democratic tradition, the tensions between town and country,

the low development of the mechanisation of agriculture, the consequences of the just overcome First World War, the counter-revolution and related invasion of the Soviet Union by 14 capitalist countries and the civil war, then the Second World War....

and also the historical alternatives to the historically powerful thrusts of Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin that emerged as historical counter-possibilities between 1918 and 1927.

There were the "left communists" Ossinki, Bukharin etc. from the spring of 1918 with their idea of an economic council system parallel to the political one, or the alternative of the "workers' opposition" from 1920/21 (A. Kollontai, A. Shlyapnikov etc.).

For this
Even if it contradicts the prevailing narratives!
I have more respect and esteem for the political life achievement of Josef Stalin than that of war criminals like Barack Obama.

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