Stalinism

Stalinism is a totalitarian, culturally variable (but leaning left), economically far-left ideology occupying the upper left corner of the political compass. The cultural views of Stalinism are controversial, some detractors accuse him of being culturally conservative, while many of his supporters praise him of being  progressive (like ML, many modern adherents are  socially progressive, but the others are  culturally conservative).

He believes in rapid industrialization, socialist commodity production,  socialism in one country (until 1939), a   totalitarian state, and collectivization of agriculture. A cult of personality was established under his rule, but expressed his personal distaste and resisted the cult multiple times.

History
Joseph Stalin (Ioseb Jughashvili) was an ethnic Georgian Bolshevik member of the USSR who rose to power due to the promotion of Lenin of him as the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU). After he came to power, he soon consolidated power and won the power struggle against the left dissents ( Trotskyists) and right dissents ( Bukharinists. He later enacted the policy of Great Purge and massively cleansed his political opponents with estimably 700k to 1.2 million fell victims. Despite being considered the leader of ‘centre’ faction of the CPSU, Stalin enacted a similar economic platform of the Trotskyist left opposition.

Shortly after coming to power, Stalin declared the end of Lenin’s New Economic Policy and enacted the the of the Collectivization of the USSR.

During an era of one of the most rapid industrialization in human history, the artificial Holodmor happened under the context with around 3.5 million to 5 million died of starvation. Whether it’s genocide is still subjected to debates in academia. The Kazakh Famine happened with 1.5 to 2.3 million perished. Stalin’s totalitarian regime enforced Lysenko’s pseudo-science theory and implemented the so-called ‘anti-parasite laws’ with Forced labor that punished people for ‘poor labor disciplines’ and ‘laziness’ and gulags. It was noted that there was a rise in wages that happened by late 1930s after real wages declined to 60% of pre-1928 level in the early 1930s.

Stalin rolled back Lenin’s progressive social reforms and recriminalized  homosexuality and abortions shortly after coming to power, as well as restoring the  Russification practice of the Tsarist Empire. Although there is a debate on whether these practices were considered conservative as the criminalization of abortions and homosexuality were widespread, if not universal, among western nations. He continued to allow women to join the Soviet workforce despite his promotion of maternity and Soviet families.

Stalin’s regime continued the economic boom of the Lenin era and enacted the policy of Socialism in One Country, which effectively cut off the USSR’s economy from the trade with outside world. In 1939, Stalin decided to do a deal with the Devil as the USSR entered a treaty with Nazi Germany, known as the Molotov Ribbentrop Pact, which would see Nazi Germany annexing Western Poland with the USSR taking the eastern part and the Baltics. In the mean while, the Finnish soldiers bravely defended their country against Soviet annexation in the Winter War and successfully repelled the offensive of the Soviet invaders, partially due to the lack of logistics of the post-purge USSR military.

Stalin didn’t believe that the Nazis would honor the treaty, but rather used it as a gamble for Nazi Germany and the west to fight against each other. The gamble backfired; the Nazis launched Operan Barbarossa and stormed the USSR’s borders with the most massive war front in human history-Eastern Front. The Soviet soldiers and generals bravely defended their motherland under the command of the helmsman Joseph Stalin, which was commonly known as the Great Patriotic War in Russia and other post-Soviet countries. The Soviet people used blood to defend their land against Nazi invasion and launched a massive counter-offensive to retake Eastern Europe with over 10 million Soviet soldiers scarified on the battlefield and at least 4 million genocided by the Nazis in the Holocaust. The Soviet anti-fascist war effort was also greatly helped by the opening of the Western Front and the American land lease under  FDR’s administration. In the meanwhile, secret orders were instructed by Stalin to Beria to conduct ethnocides against the ethnic minorities in the USSR as part of the deportation process.

After the Allied triumph in World War 2 against Fascism, another famine happened in Ukraine, known as the 1946-1947 Famine. However, it would be the last major famine of Eastern Europe. Stalin soon plundered the Eastern European countries into satellite states and began the Cold War along with his western counterparts Harry S Truman,  Winston Churchill and later his successor,  Clement Attlee. The USSR rose to a superpower with satellites launched into the space and nuclear bombs.

Stalin died in 1953 and his successor started to gradually move away from his influence. Nikita Khrushchev gave a secret speech in 1956, marking the first wave of De-Stalinization and destroyed Stalin’s cult of personality that he helped to set up. Though the shadow of Stalinism on Soviet politics would not diminish before the second wave of De-Stalinization, carried by the reformist-minded General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev.

As the most respected figure in Russia and some post-Soviet countries such as Georgia and Belarus, Stalin remained a highly controversial figure internationally, with most western scholars and his critics denouncing him for being a totalitarian paranoid power hungry tyrant who was responsible for the deaths of at least millions and up to tens of millions and genocides. Still, some scholars defend his record, and the governments of Russia and Belarus see him as a patriotic leader who deserves credit for making the USSR a superpower with rapid industrialization and the victory in the Soviet Patriotic War. Many Marxist-Leninists generally see him as one of the most important figures who theorized Marxism-Leninism, along with Marx,  Engels, and  Lenin. Although the PRC is generally critical of him. Just ignore that the PRC isn't even ML anymore.

Doctrine
Economically speaking, Stalinism is far-left. Stalinism is culturally variable, some consider him culturally conservative and some culturally progressive. Stalinism is a development of Leninism, his main theoretical beliefs are Socialism in one country (until 1939), Aggravation of the class struggle under Socialism, and Socialist commodity production. Although he does believe in the final goal of Communism (stateless, moneyless, classless, etc), he believes that a strong state is needed to progress toward it. He believes industrialization is needed so that the Socialist state won't get crushed by foreign powers and believes that the Kulaks are enemies of the Revolution, which is why Collectivization is needed, however, he does believe that middle and small peasants are friends of the Revolution. He believes enemies of the people need to be purged so that Socialism can be preserved.

[[File:Neostalin.png]] Neo-Stalinism
The term is used to describe the system of the countries that in many ways resembled the political system of the USSR under Stalin. As an example, the dictatorships of Mao Zedong in  China,  Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il in  North Korea,  Hồ Chí Minh in Vietnam,  Enver Hoxha in  Albania and to political parties that idealize a similar political system.

Many western scholars have described Lenoid Brezhnev’s rule as ‘Neo-Stalinist.’ However, Brezhnev didn’t fully restore the cult of Stalin or undo all Khrushchev’s economic reforms. Brezhnev’s first term saw the Kosygin reform being implemented. However, the reform was half-hearted and later abandoned as Brezhnev favored Stalin’s emphasis on heavy industry in his economic policy. Brezhnev also reversed the cultural liberalization reforms in literature and arts and arrested people who criticized Stalin, sharply contrasting Khrushchev’s relatively relaxed communist rule, and Brezhnev restored some Stalinist practices like the lifetime cadre system, which accumulated corruption in the USSR. But he did restore the collective leadership in the  Lenin era, as opposed to his predecessor Nikita, who ruled the USSR with a similar autocratic style to Stalin despite his intense hatred of Stalin.

Additionally, in the 21st century, Neo-Stalinism is used to represent, internet followers of Stalin who tend to defend his views and positions. Most of these followers, hold culturally left positions and argue that Stalin did the same. He is stereotyped as being someone who would be willing to deny and defend the actions of Stalin such as gulags, purges, forced deportations, famines, and Lysenkoism, which some consider abhorrent, to defend.

Personality and Behavior
Acts like a stereotypical Soviet-era politician often sending people to the gulag.

Stylistic Notes

 * Dark and misanthropic sense of humor.
 * Paranoid and quick to seek revenge.
 * Violently repressive.
 * Sometimes cooperates with [[File: Nazi.png]] National Socialism but only for the NAP and to get ahead of them economically, still denies it though.
 * Hates [[File: Tito.png]] Tito and [[File: Trot.png]] Trotsky for factionalism and revisionism.
 * Can either exist alongside [[File: ML.png]] Marxism–Leninism as a representation of the ideology as understood by Stalin or will not exist and be replaced ML entirely.
 * Speaks with a Georgian accent

How to Draw
Stalin_flag.svg The symbol used for Stalinism in the polcompball is the symbol of the Worker's and Peasants' Red Army, more famously known as just The Red Army which was a military force led by Joseph Stalin through much of its existance.


 * 1) Draw a ball.
 * 2) Fill it in red (preferably CC0000).
 * 3) Draw a golden hammer and sickle inside of a star (feel free to make the red inside the star darker, to mimic the USSR military badge).
 * 4) Draw Stalin's military cap
 * 5) Add eyes.

And you're done!

ამხანაგები (Comrades)

 * [[File: ML.png]] Marxism–Leninism - Made by me, Stalinism actually doesn't exist. Marxism-Leninism uses the foundations of Marx and Lenin. I am merely a student of Lenin.
 * [[File: Orthlen.png]] Leninism - I am merely a student of Lenin.
 * [[File: Mao.png]] Maoism - Great ally, but why did you criticize me later in "Stalin's place in history"?
 * [[File: Juche.png]] Juche - Korean comrade! Here have a tank!
 * [[File: Hoxha.png]] Hoxhaism - Albanian comrade! I love how he upholds anti-revisionism! But why unconditional atheism even when I softened up on the church after 1941?
 * [[File:AuthSoc.png]] Authoritarian Socialism [[File:Statesoc.png]] - One of my greatest comrades! We share almost all of our views!
 * [[File:Indust.png]] Industrialism - It is time to put an end to the rotten policy of noninterference in production. Increase production!
 * [[File:Autarky.png]] Autarky - Soviet industry is the best industry!
 * [[File:Mat.png]] Maternalism - She gets it, make more babies for the state whilst more moving to the workforce!
 * [[File:Soc.png]] Socialism - I like you, but you need a stronger grip... and more state!
 * [[File:Neobol.png]] Neo-Bolshevism - Says he’s me but “Off Compass”, whatever that means
 * [[File:PolState.png]] Police Statism - Thank you Beria for helping me to purge my enemies and political dissents.
 * [[File:Christcom.png]] Christian Communism - Many of my modern day supporters in post-Soviet countries are literally him as I loosened up religious restrictions in my later years. Idk how I feel about your religiousness, but we are still comrades nowadays.
 * [[File:Totalitarian.png]] Totalitarianism - The state is everything. I love your secret police, state purges, red terror, and gulags. Though I don't really like the personality cult thing. Ignore that I still let it slipped through anyway. Also just remember you were created by [[File:Fash.png]] fascist pigs and many of you are fascists defeated by me in WW2.

ლუმპენპროლეტარიატი (Lumpenproletariat)

 * [[File: Nazi.png]] National Socialism (pre-1941) - Can't be bored with him, I love getting ahead of you when we sign pacts. Your Aryan supremacy schtick is very cringe though, you are still pretty much a filthy fashie. Also, you aren't nationalist, if you had focused on assembling and uniting the German lands, it was possible to call you nationalist, but after you enslaved foreign nations, you became imperialist. Unlike my totally justified enforcement of sovereign nations becoming my satellite states.
 * [[File: Showa-kanmuri.png]] Showa Statism - Same as above but we unfortunately haven't had as much interaction. That being said, I'll fuck you up if you fuck with my borders.
 * [[File: Orth.png]] Orthodox Theocracy - I allowed some of his churches to flourish during The Great Patriotic War, only for the war.
 * [[File:Isolationist.png]] Isolationism [[File:Isolation.png]] - Socialism in one country. Oh, and Poland, Bulgaria, Romania, Latvia, Lithuania, Czechoslovakia, Estonia, Finland, Hungary, and 1/3d of Germany. What do you mean spreading socialism by war is a Trot thing?
 * [[File:Nazbol.png]] National Bolshevism - Your gang memes are good and you seem to like me at least your meme variant and not P*etel, but i'm afraid I am still going to purge Ustrialov for making propaganda against the state.
 * [[File:Posadist.png]] Posadism - You're a Trotskyist, but Metro 2033 irl would be really cool. FOR COMRADE MOSKVIN!
 * [[File: Radfem.png]] Radical Feminism - Working women are based. Make more babies for the state though. And militarism isn't "toxic masculinity".
 * [[File:Antifa.png]] Anti-Fascism - My son who bashes the fash! Although nowadays you are kinda [[File:Anarkiddy.png]] anarkiddy. Also, why do you like gay people so much?
 * [[File:FDRismF.png]] Rooseveltanism - Thanks for the lend lease 'velt, but I'm afraid our little alliance ends here.
 * [[File:Gay.png]] LGBTQ Communists - Western decadence, however, Comrade Georgy Chicherin knows the mood in foreign investment circles better than all of us! Also, Yezhov was a great help during the purge. But I had to execute him later because pedos like Beria are way better!
 * [[File:StateathFedora.png]] State Atheism - I was very harsh on religion but loosened up after 1941.
 * [[File:Consocf.png]] Conservative Socialism - We both hate gays and like gender roles, but stop calling me you, you’re bourgeoisie, stop trying to stop me from destroying the old Russian way of life!
 * [[File:Zio.png]] Zionism - It’s complicated…
 * [[File:Ultraprogressivism.png]] Revolutionary Progressivism - I am a progressive, but why do you hate me for my homophobia and promotion of family values and maternity? WDYM that's not enough progressive for you??
 * [[File:ChiangKaiShek.png]] Chiang Kai-shek Thought - Our relationship started at a rough place as I supported the Chinese communists against him in the 1930s. But I saved him from the Xi’an coup and backed him against Japan at the beginning of the Sino-Japanese War. But still, I only did it to let Mao enter Manchuria later and funded the CCP with massive aid support and Japanese weapons. I still tried to help negotiate a peace agreement between the communists and the nationalists to divide China to give him a lifeline when the nationalists were losing the war, though. At least we both like your [[File:Chiang-Ching-kuo.png]] son.

კულაკები (Kulaks)

 * [[File: Fash.png]] Fascism - Biggest enemy. When Nazism pisses me off, I call him Fascism. My gulags can fit all of your followers.
 * [[File: Nazi.png]] National Socialism (post-1941) - You backstabbing reactionary rat! I will defend Stalingrad and Leningrad until the last Soviet man! Prepare to die!!!
 * [[File:Showa-kanmuri.png]] Showa Statism (post-1945) - HA HA HA Manchuria is MINE now you useful idiot!
 * [[File: Klep.png]] Kleptocracy - You're going to gulag forever greedy capitalist pig! Ignore that I robbed a bank in 1907
 * [[File: Socdem.png]] Social Democracy - You're just [[File:SocFash.png]] Social Fascism and you're a capitalist in disguise. Also, you killed Rosa! To the gulag with you!
 * [[File: Kemal.png]] Kemalism - We used to be chill until he turned out to be another [[File:SocFash.png]] social fascist. Not to mention you also sheltered this [[File:Lev Davidovich Bronstein.png]] traitor.
 * [[File:Kemal.png]] - Hey, I am not a social fascist. If you want social fascism, go ask [[File:Fashkemal.png]] Peker, whom I rejected.
 * [[File:Stalin.png]] - Despite that, you are a [[File:SocFash.png]] social-fascist! Ok, I get the point
 * [[File:Cardenas.png]] Cardenismo - Same as the above, but in Mexico.
 * [[File:WelfChauvin.png]] Welfare Chauvinism and [[File:Pron.png]] Peronism - I told you about welfarism being fascist.
 * [[File:Anarkiddy.png]] Anarcho-Communism - Silly anarkiddy doesn't understand, I 'AM real communism.
 * [[File: AnSynd.png]] Anarcho-Syndicalism - Are you not just anarkiddy again?
 * [[File: Ancapf.png]] Anarcho-Capitalism - DISGUSTING KULAK! (Though private police are based.)
 * [[File: Cap.png]] Capitalism - I hate capitalism, capitalism is the greatest failure of our time. We need the SOCIALIST boss to extract the SOCIALIST surplus value from the workers and pay them a SOCIALIST wage and then the SOCIALIST boss produces a SOCIALIST commodity out of what the workers made.
 * [[File: Ecocap.png]] Eco-Capitalism - You too!
 * [[File: Pinkcap.png]] Pink Capitalism - Another Kulak, this time with a horrible sense of fashion.
 * [[File:Libertfem.png]] Libertarian Feminism - Are you not just [[File: Pinkcap.png]] Pink Capitalism again?
 * [[File:Hcon.png]] LGBT Conservatism [[File:Homocon.png]] - You go against my family values and like [[File:Pinkcap.png]] him, you push for capitalism! To the gulags!
 * [[File:Hfash.png]] Homonationalism - Nazi trash, off to the gulags! This is the kind of degeneracy that fascism leads us to!
 * [[File:Strans.png]] Stransserism - You too!
 * [[File: Trot.png]] Trotskyism - *sharpens ice pick* You should have minded your own business when Germany fell and Instead you resort to factionalism to be salty! But thanks a lot for your help in the Russian Civil War.
 * [[File: Khrusch.png]] Khrushchevism - DAMN REVISIONIST NIKITA! You just had to denounce me! Also, you hate the purges and cult of personality which I hated even tho you helped me with them in the first place lol. Defending Stalingrad during the great patriotic war was based tho.
 * [[File:Gorb.png]] Gorbachevism - I HATE YOU WITH EVERY FIBER OF MY BEING! YOU RUINED THE GLORIOUS SOVIET UNION!
 * [[File: Necon.png]] Neoconservatism - GODDAMN NEOCONS! You killed my entire movement!
 * [[File: Hayek.png]] Hayekism - Yeah, I'm a big government commie. Problem?
 * [[File: LeftCom.png]] Left Communism - So, I'm not a real communist even though I ruled the biggest communist country in the world, but you are a real communist even though you just sit in an armchair?
 * [[File: Reactsoc.png]] Reactionary Socialism - Don't care, didn't ask. Plus you're a reactionary.
 * [[File: Conlib.png]] Conservative Liberalism - A kulak's final form. *shudders*
 * [[File:Liberalconservative.png]] Liberal Conservatism - Same as above.
 * [[File:Christy.png]] [[File:Muslim 2.png]] [[File:JewTheo.png]] Other Theocracies - God, imagine still believing in these regressive institutions. I'll forever be thankful to the Orthodox for supporting me during the war.
 * [[File:Whitesup.png]] White Nationalism - American cuck who wants to import racism to our glorious Soviet Union, prepare to get gulaged!
 * [[File:Pinochet-hat.png]] Pinochetism - You want me to get to the helicopter? How about... YOU GET TO THE GULAG FIRST!
 * [[File:Clib.png]] Classical Liberalism - Yet another liberal kulak!
 * [[File:Obj.png]] Objectivism - I should have killed you in the gulag instead of approving your leave to America!
 * [[File: Nrx.png]] Neoreactionarism - Gulag, Now.
 * [[File: Tito.png]] Titoism - Dubious Marxist! Why can’t you just f*king die! Throwing fascists into the pit was extremely based though.
 * [[File:Islamic Democracy.png]] Islamic Democracy - You are all collabs with Nazis, get deported.
 * [[File:Pahlavi.png]] Pahlavism - Monarchist, social fascist, capitalist, what else? I swear invading you wasn’t imperialist at all because you are a capitalist fascist.
 * [[File:Sanacja.png]] Sanationism - POLAND IS SOVIET TERRITORY REEEE!!!!!
 * [[File:Revzion.png]] Revisionist Zionism - Social fascist who is a proud revisionist.
 * [[File: Nalib.png]] National Liberalism & [[File:Natpop.png]] Revolutionary Nationalism - Bourgeois nationalist reactionary scums. You want liberation from my glorious rule? I will liberate you from your pathetic lives! NOW GET IN THE GULAGS!!
 * [[File:Natcom.png]] National Communism - You are a revisionist. I killed several natcoms in the 1930s for trying to divide USSR and I don't regret it.
 * [[File:Scientocracy Small.png]] Scientocracy - Reject genetics, embrace Lysenkoism.

By Joseph Stalin

 * Anarchism or Socialism?
 * Foundations of Leninism
 * Trotskyism or Leninism?
 * Dialectical and Historical Materialism
 * Economic Problems of Socialism in the USSR

By Other Authors

 * History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolsheviks): Short Course by the Central Committee of C.P.S.U.
 * Fundamentals of Marxism-Leninism by Otto Wille Kuusinen

Wikipedia

 * [[file:Stalin.png]] Stalinism
 * Joseph Stalin's Cult of Personality
 * [[File:Socialism_in_One_Country.png]] Socialism in One Country
 * Intensification of the class struggle under socialism
 * Self-criticism (Marxism–Leninism)
 * [[File:Cball-Russia.png]] Russification
 * [[File:Kosior.png]] Holodomor
 * [[File:Goloshchyokin.png]] Kazakh Famine
 * [[File:Beria.png]] Great Purge
 * [[File:Beria.png]] Population transfer in the Soviet Union
 * [[File:Tankie.png]] WW2 Eastern Front [[File:NaziGermany.png]]
 * [[File:Indust.png]] Industrialization in the Soviet Union
 * [[File:JosephStalin.png]] Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact [[File:Hitler.png]]
 * [[File:Lysenko.png]] Lysenkoism
 * [[File:Tankie.png]] Great Patriotic War [[File:NaziGermany.png]]

Videos

 * Sigma Stalin
 * Day in the Life of Stalin by Simple History

Online Communities

 * [[File:reddit.png]] r/ShitLiberalsSay

Organizations

 * US Friends of the Soviet People
 * Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist-Leninist)
 * New Communist Party of Britain
 * Communists of Russia
 * Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist)

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