Stalin was totalitarian leader, whose main goal was building a powerful empire. He does not take into account human lives and tried to get his goal at any cost. However, since his goal was not a personal wealth, sometimes his actions made life of people better. Do you know, f.e. that during Stalin years smoothbore guns sold at homedepots along with spades and hammers without any papers? And immidiately after his death Russians was robbed of the right to have a gun. It's very strange along with his cruelty and totalitarian nature. All in all, eventually he build his empire, and Russia become first world country (at the time) with aerospace, nuclear bomb, advanced science, total education and relatevely healthy population under his control, despite all wars, misfortune and disasters. That cost a lot of lifes, but not all of them are on him. He definitely was not the best possible ruler, but I think he was not the worse. Hard to tell, but I think that if, f.e. Trotsky took over in 1930-s, things could be much worse for country and people.
I can't tell who Stalin really was, but he definitely was the real and independent historic figure, unlike modern politicians.
In Russia, some people worship him, some hate him, there is no any definite attitude.
Sorry, but your comment about weapons is simply false. In 1918 the CPC passed law confiscating all weapons from the public. Only Party members were allowed to retain a single smoothbore weapon, which had to be registered. In 1924 the gun laws were further restricted allowing party members to own only smoothbore hunting shotguns with 3 round chambers or less, and all other guns were confiscated. Those hunting shotguns had to be registered both with the local and National party, two separate registrations, with a 10-year sentence for any failure.
During the war, these registered smoothbore weapons were all confiscated by the state to be handed to the Red Army. Stalinist Russia had some of the tightest gun restrictions on the planet at the time.
When Stalin died in 53, the laws were loosened, slightly, allowing smoothbore hunting weapons without registration, but that ended when Khrushchev died and the Stalinist gun laws were reimposed.
Definitely should burn old photos of my ancestors with backgrounds showing a house walls with guns openly hanging and ones with boys shooting cans from early 1950-s. Also have to forget family stories. Because somebody in internet read some articles in internet about how draconian was laws in the past.
You never heard about continious rewriting of the official history, especially in Russia, Didn't you?
Sport, the plural of anecdote is not data. I don’t care what you claim your family has or doesn’t have in pictures.
And by all means, if you have evidence these primary sourced laws I cited are ‘rewritten’ then by all means demonstrate it. But you claiming history gets rewritten does not give you license to rewrite it yourself.
I don't care much about all that historic crap to bother myself with spending time to dig proofs for some internet nickname. And how that proofs should look like to satisfy you? Some official site where will be another document saying that some other document was rewritten, with stamps and signatures? Are you kidding me?
You could easily find articles about how USSR authorities edited photos and pictures even in scholar books, removing objectionable persons from images. Stalin shills removed his enemies from books, changed historic facts and documents to fit the narrative, then, Khrushchev shills removed Stalin and Co from history and changed facts and documents to fit the narrative, Then Khrushchev become unwanted in history... Even national anthem had changed few times. Archives definitely was edited too, some documents disappeared, some appeared, not event taking in account that huge part of USSR archves, especially documents from 1920-s to 1970-s, many other documents linked to is still classified (or said that they are classified because they just don't exists - nobody knows).
In official documents you will find only the things they want you to find. It is not a good and verifiable source of information at all and never was. History is written by winners, is that a discovery for you? The only way you could know something about the past is your relatives memories. Everything else is much worse source of information about history.
You have to be completely retarded asking some "proofs" of rewriting documents when right now that fucking WHO and health institutions of every fucking country rewriting history, documents and even science RIGHT BEFORE YOUR OWN EYES IN REALTIME.
History is not a science, so there could not be a solid scientific proofs. Why spent time for that crap?
Stalin was totalitarian leader, whose main goal was building a powerful empire. He does not take into account human lives and tried to get his goal at any cost. However, since his goal was not a personal wealth, sometimes his actions made life of people better. Do you know, f.e. that during Stalin years smoothbore guns sold at homedepots along with spades and hammers without any papers? And immidiately after his death Russians was robbed of the right to have a gun. It's very strange along with his cruelty and totalitarian nature. All in all, eventually he build his empire, and Russia become first world country (at the time) with aerospace, nuclear bomb, advanced science, total education and relatevely healthy population under his control, despite all wars, misfortune and disasters. That cost a lot of lifes, but not all of them are on him. He definitely was not the best possible ruler, but I think he was not the worse. Hard to tell, but I think that if, f.e. Trotsky took over in 1930-s, things could be much worse for country and people.
I can't tell who Stalin really was, but he definitely was the real and independent historic figure, unlike modern politicians.
In Russia, some people worship him, some hate him, there is no any definite attitude.
Sorry, but your comment about weapons is simply false. In 1918 the CPC passed law confiscating all weapons from the public. Only Party members were allowed to retain a single smoothbore weapon, which had to be registered. In 1924 the gun laws were further restricted allowing party members to own only smoothbore hunting shotguns with 3 round chambers or less, and all other guns were confiscated. Those hunting shotguns had to be registered both with the local and National party, two separate registrations, with a 10-year sentence for any failure.
During the war, these registered smoothbore weapons were all confiscated by the state to be handed to the Red Army. Stalinist Russia had some of the tightest gun restrictions on the planet at the time.
When Stalin died in 53, the laws were loosened, slightly, allowing smoothbore hunting weapons without registration, but that ended when Khrushchev died and the Stalinist gun laws were reimposed.
Definitely should burn old photos of my ancestors with backgrounds showing a house walls with guns openly hanging and ones with boys shooting cans from early 1950-s. Also have to forget family stories. Because somebody in internet read some articles in internet about how draconian was laws in the past.
You never heard about continious rewriting of the official history, especially in Russia, Didn't you?
Sport, the plural of anecdote is not data. I don’t care what you claim your family has or doesn’t have in pictures.
And by all means, if you have evidence these primary sourced laws I cited are ‘rewritten’ then by all means demonstrate it. But you claiming history gets rewritten does not give you license to rewrite it yourself.
I don't care much about all that historic crap to bother myself with spending time to dig proofs for some internet nickname. And how that proofs should look like to satisfy you? Some official site where will be another document saying that some other document was rewritten, with stamps and signatures? Are you kidding me?
You could easily find articles about how USSR authorities edited photos and pictures even in scholar books, removing objectionable persons from images. Stalin shills removed his enemies from books, changed historic facts and documents to fit the narrative, then, Khrushchev shills removed Stalin and Co from history and changed facts and documents to fit the narrative, Then Khrushchev become unwanted in history... Even national anthem had changed few times. Archives definitely was edited too, some documents disappeared, some appeared, not event taking in account that huge part of USSR archves, especially documents from 1920-s to 1970-s, many other documents linked to is still classified (or said that they are classified because they just don't exists - nobody knows).
In official documents you will find only the things they want you to find. It is not a good and verifiable source of information at all and never was. History is written by winners, is that a discovery for you? The only way you could know something about the past is your relatives memories. Everything else is much worse source of information about history.
You have to be completely retarded asking some "proofs" of rewriting documents when right now that fucking WHO and health institutions of every fucking country rewriting history, documents and even science RIGHT BEFORE YOUR OWN EYES IN REALTIME.
History is not a science, so there could not be a solid scientific proofs. Why spent time for that crap?