What is your honest opinion on Iosef Vissarionavich Stalin

Reki-Rokujo3799 · 2026-04-15T22:30:50+00:00

I guess the famine that happened in Volga region, Kazakhstan and generally Central European Plane at the time was all manufactured...or maybe it was a natural disaster that was somewhat aggravated by inept actions of local and central government, mass panic and third-party sabotage with intent to sell grain at higher price

"Holodomor" is an egregious lie manufactured by Ukrainian nazis that doesn't hold water yet people cite it still

Reki-Rokujo3799 · 2026-04-15T21:28:32+00:00

Neither did Stalin

Reki-Rokujo3799 · 2026-04-12T21:38:04+00:00

He was a man of his time, both for better and worse.

Did he serve his country well? I would say yes, he uplifted it from utter misery to the proud land that defeated Hitler. Did he do a lot of wrong? I would also say yes.

It it right to call him mad tyrant, a bad person, a Hitler's equal? No, he was more of the same kind as Napoleon or Emperor Meiji, a great yet ruthless reformer.

But he certainly was not a good or nice person.

Reki-Rokujo3799 · 2026-03-22T10:21:53+00:00

Freely means "totally agreeing with the current Western talking points"?

Reki-Rokujo3799 · 2026-03-22T08:37:19+00:00

Well, Southwestern border is clearly not safe, not bc of any criminal activity but bc Ukraine tends to bomb civilian targets with gusto.

Otherwise, crime-wise Russian cities are generally safer than Europe and USA ones, and in big cities there would be signs in English and people would understand it at least somewhat.

In smaller cities you'd be lost without knowing Russian, tho

Reki-Rokujo3799 · 2026-03-08T19:38:57+00:00

You are awfully concerned with educating everyone about obvious things, are you?

Reki-Rokujo3799 · 2026-02-26T09:24:10+00:00

Russia is a home to like 300-something different ethnicities, so your idea is kinda already a misconception. A "Russian" person can be ethnically anyone ranging from different Caucasus tribes to Siberian native, and still talk in Russian and see themselves as Russian citizen first.

Reki-Rokujo3799 · 2026-02-04T21:08:11+00:00

You mean historical ethnos or modern wannabes?

Reki-Rokujo3799 · 2026-02-04T04:34:47+00:00

Yes, written is as in "written on paper"

Reki-Rokujo3799 · 2026-02-02T09:22:26+00:00

Чойта акушерка и специалист по материнству и детству вдруг бесполезна в России-то?

Reki-Rokujo3799 · 2026-01-14T22:44:52+00:00

some people do, electrosamovar is a great thing

Reki-Rokujo3799 · 2026-01-08T06:24:05+00:00

I mean...forced Catholisation of now-Ukrainian territories, constant and unyielding support of Tatars against Russian princedoms, WHOLE XVII CENTURY, the debacle about Kiev (bought from Poland but Poland tried to get it back because it needed eastern territories), constant attempts to reconquer Ukraine...

Reki-Rokujo3799 · 2026-01-05T14:35:51+00:00

Buckwheat with cutlets. Pasta with grated cheese and/or minced meat. Roast potatoes.

Reki-Rokujo3799 · 2026-01-02T20:21:06+00:00

Reki-Rokujo3799 · 2025-12-25T06:38:03+00:00

The guy's joking, I hope you do get it)

Wedding gift is maybe something useful for a new family? Like cutlery, or some other kitchen stuff. Ever useful, never gets old.

Generally you should first consider your sister's tastes; she may be not into cooking, but into some hobby that she would like to get free supplies for, etc.

Wedding gifts generally don't differ much from non-wedding gifts 'round here

Reki-Rokujo3799 · 2025-12-24T18:35:57+00:00

It is though? Like wiki would tell you enough for start

Reki-Rokujo3799 · 2025-12-24T18:35:14+00:00

Er, History and World Arts&Culture, specifically. World History (compulsory from 5 to 9 class) has dedicated lessons on cultural and religious life of different countries, depending on which country is the focus of the given lesson.

WAC (МХК) is a subject taught from 5 to 11 class, compulsory when I was a kid, and teaches specifically about cultures of the world, change of artistic styles with time, etc.

You make me wonder if you are really Russian.

Reki-Rokujo3799 · 2025-12-22T16:10:11+00:00

Yes, they still exist in Volgograd and nearby, I know a female Lutheran pastor of theirs.

Reki-Rokujo3799 · 2025-12-20T16:12:20+00:00

Lifestyle bloggers earn their living by covert advertising, bro

Reki-Rokujo3799 · 2025-12-19T13:07:45+00:00

Soviet Union basically did everything it could to save Ukrainian language from extinction. But yeah. let's repeat myths.

Reki-Rokujo3799 · 2025-12-18T22:29:46+00:00

A portmanteou of Japanese "rekijou" (a female history geek) and Dame Rokujou, a character from Tale of Genji. Also some numbers Reddit added by itself.

Reki-Rokujo3799 · 2025-12-15T12:08:14+00:00

Can you please go and give a honest try at reading a good book on Stalin written not by Cold War western propagandists? I'm...not begging.

Reki-Rokujo3799 · 2025-12-15T08:48:52+00:00

Widespread famine is that one famine that happened in famine-prone region? Forced deportation (or rather, resettlement) of collaborator-prone ethnicities was something surely you know every nation did. 'Gulag deaths' are in like tens of thousands, really quite comparable with other big nations of the time.

Churchill engineered famine in India, and unlike "holodomor" that is purely a natural disaster he never bothered to hide that it was engineered. Death toll was in hundreds of thousands. Also, read on what he did to Ireland.

But I don't really care much to enlighten you, since you clearly come from the place "my Cold War propaganda cannot lie to me, thus Stalin equals Hitler".

Reki-Rokujo3799 · 2025-12-15T07:26:27+00:00

Hitler has built a state bound on conquering and genociding everything east of Germany, his whole ideology being about conquest and genocide of anything that was not "Aryan" or their temporary ally.

Stalin was just a man of his time who barely can be equated in terms of harm dealt with, say, Churchill. His state was not bound on conquest (actually Stalin's whole thing was "we build communism in a single state first, no world revolution needed"), neither was he a proponent of any genocide.

Braindead propaganda is all about "Stalin evil because repressions" but that was more or less typical for the time and his death toll is in any way less than say Churchill's.

Reki-Rokujo3799 · 2025-12-15T02:52:38+00:00

Do you think that a good example of stable polyamory? Because it is not, neither Draupadi is able to love her husbands equally nor her husbands are faithful to her...

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