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Manc in London said:
Stalin was not a communist. He was no more a communist than Thatcher.
I don't think you understand what communism is.
Facism is about intolerance, ignorance and hatred. Communism is not.
A lot won't like to hear this but fascism and communism in the 20's and 30's struggled for the same hearts and minds. The international communist movement demonized fascists because although similar ideals they were typically nationalist, as opposed to an international movement like communism. Many communists hoped to gain disaffected fascists through this demonization. Their motto was first brown then red.[/quote]
Facism is not similar to communism at all. It's not even debateable. Political groups found the 20s and 30s as fertile grounds due to high levels of unemployment, inflation and poverty. Groups sought to fill the void. Germany in the 30s is a prime example.
Kust to clarify I am not claiming to be a Communist but not one person has told me how facism and communism are similar as ideologies.
Someone above said some 'communist soldiers' shot a large number of Poles. On what basis are these soldiers communist? BTW being called Communist on the grounds they are linked to a state that was no more communist than the UK, does not count.
Are British and US forces 'liberal democratic'? These armed forces killed over 300,000 Iraqi civilians. Does that make 'liberal democracy' evil?[/quote]
I suggest that you read up on the Katyn Forest massacre by ''communist soldiers''
You ask on what basis are these soldiers communist, they were members of the NKVD which was the secret state police of the Soviet COMMUNIST regime, they had to be communist to serve in the NKVD, any disloyalty to the party by any serving NKVD man or woman was dealt with by a bullet to the head, if they had disobeyed the orders not to shoot the Polish officers they would have been lying in the mass graves beside the Poles[/quote]
You still don't what communism is.
So tell me, was Russia in the phase of the 'dictatorship of the proletariat' under Stalin? What moves were being made to make the transition to the stateless society? Did Stalin's actions in relation to the Comintern reflect the actions of a man with a communist ideology?
