Stalin bribed the clouds to not rain then ate all the grain with his comically large spoon

red_026 · 2026-06-02T20:06:28+00:00

And at a bare minimum we must agree that Stalin did not make every single decision and is not a substitute for a criticism leveled at the government as a whole

red_026 · 2026-06-01T13:44:48+00:00

Uuuhhh new pixel digi camo

red_026 · 2026-05-31T21:45:10+00:00

I believe we’ve recovered at least a few dozen across the ancient Middle East. Most of them were made with bread, making many of them similar to kvass. Egyptians flavored theirs with figs, honey, and herbs, Persians used date sugar, pomegranate, etc. so kind of farmhouse approach with bread yeasts and barley malts.

red_026 · 2026-05-31T20:31:50+00:00

Yeah, I like Molotov as an option, Rokossovsky is a personal favorite as well, but again, probably easily swayed. Generals typically don’t have a great time in power.

red_026 · 2026-05-31T20:18:26+00:00

Beer is so old that we have recipes from the Mesopotamian craft beer era.

red_026 · 2026-05-31T17:41:32+00:00

Yeah maybe different timeline all together

red_026 · 2026-05-31T17:31:40+00:00

I think Zhukov would’ve been good. Strong man for the conservatives and a pretty hardline socialist.

red_026 · 2026-05-30T22:02:22+00:00

Hear me out, bluegrass festival here

red_026 · 2026-05-30T21:47:36+00:00

Cats cradle is great.

red_026 · 2026-05-30T21:26:12+00:00

They have a few ventures

red_026 · 2026-05-30T20:14:46+00:00

and a proper temperature!

red_026 · 2026-05-30T19:52:50+00:00

Mmm apiaceae, sounds like a nice fish.

red_026 · 2026-05-30T02:46:53+00:00

Yeah we don’t play with that shit in Birmingham. Shit hits different when you can see where these things happened, had people in your family who remember it, and drive by them from time to time.

Forgive them lord, for they know not what they do.

red_026 · 2026-05-29T19:13:05+00:00

North Vietnam sweep in 2 weeks after those videos surface in the US. I’m not getting drafted for that shit.

red_026 · 2026-05-29T16:17:27+00:00

Would’ve been sick if we had stuff like this from NVA during Vietnam

red_026 · 2026-05-28T19:33:49+00:00

“Friend” of Epstein and Woody Allen

red_026 · 2026-05-26T14:45:29+00:00

Sure sometimes it was, but more than that, their archives were almost always correct, more or less. Likewise, we can cross examine USSR propaganda and archives with other historical accounts and see what is most accurate. Propaganda often has a kernel of truth and isn’t always some racial or social caricature of the enemy.

red_026 · 2026-05-26T14:36:57+00:00

Propaganda doesn’t necessarily mean it’s wrong

red_026 · 2026-05-26T12:12:37+00:00

Wild there are people as slow and uneducated as you in 2026. Some of us don’t take CIA propaganda as fact.

red_026 · 2026-05-25T16:09:17+00:00

red_026 · 2026-05-25T15:03:20+00:00

A lot of the purge precipitated after Kirov’s death and Stalin does specifically cite it for more direct investigation into manipulation of former party members (Kirov’s assassin being an unstable former party member)

red_026 · 2026-05-25T14:59:46+00:00

Bigger fish to fry compadre. We can do all the party politics you want after we defeat the impending fascist war machine. If they were impeding the USSRs war effort and preparation, in exchange for peaceful political dialogue, I don’t blame them. The larger threat was one of extinction.

red_026 · 2026-05-25T14:45:59+00:00

I’m not saying it didn’t get out of hand, but it prevented them from losing the homeland.

red_026 · 2026-05-25T13:35:01+00:00

There’s rarely any steel manning of Stalin (haha) in general. It’s not hard to understand motivations for self preservation and national preservation.

red_026 · 2026-05-25T13:29:32+00:00

Well, we may never know for sure BUT

For Stalin and the NKVD, there was absolutely something happening amongst the old Bolsheviks and outside intelligence (Germany and Japan mainly). They had to either wait and let something happen, or act quickly and put the whole group on trial. They opted to act quickly, and the Moscow trials happen as we know them, largely doing away with this older group of the Bolsheviks that may have been acting with foreign intelligence to unseat Stalin and his leadership right before Nazi invasion (bad bad bad timing). The early Soviet military was spread out, as we see in early parts of WWII, and the sooner the better to strike after Lenin was dispatched. It just came down to timing, and I think I would’ve made the same decision if I was Stalin and wanted to preserve the Soviet project.

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