Trotskyism is what we call "International Communism" and promotes an ideology of "permanent revolution"--that is to say, continuous disruption, conflict, and war for "as long as it takes", which basically means forever. Any rational person could recognize that that is literal insanity, which is why Stalinism prevailed in the USSR. Stalin--who favored a nationalist version of communism--was a vicious brute, but at least he understood that the Trotskyites had to be either eradicated, or driven out. Consequently, the Trotskyists fled to America
Agree. Something like that, but more complicated. Trotskists nearly wanted destroy Russia / newborn USSR with creating starvation, destroying religion, traditions, industry all that stuff. The idea was to create a population that "owns nothing" that could be thrown into the fire of World Communist Revolution. Stalin had another plans so in 30s he began to exterminate Trotskists and their shills massively. That is why they so hate Stalin telling wet stories about gulags and trying to equal Stalin with Hitler for that. Do you see that fascinating acknowledgement from their own mouths - Stalin bad because he opressed trotskists and Hitler is bad because he opress jews. Stalin and Hitler are equally bad for that. Ergo, jews and trotskists are same group in the eyes of that public. As usual, they project casualities they inflicted to Russian population during years of Civil War, Wartime Communism, Collectivisation and all that stuff in 20s - ealy 30s to the Stalin regime who in reality stop that shit in mid 30s and exterminated most of trotskists as soon as he obtained some real power in country. And suddenly population become grow, industry rised and so on. Immidiately after their complete defeat in USSR, suddenly, WWII began to unwind. What a fascinating coincidence!
You could also notice interesting thing - only actual Soviet (Stalin) type of communism ideology was shamed and anticipated in the West, while all that Trotskists who evaded Stalin repressions was kind of untouchable and I never heard about any kind of Western prosecution of any of that gulag victims to be.
Today, many surnames in Western politics that floats on the top of political foam are the same as surnames of those who was declared Stalins victims. Seriously, reading Western news, many associations with History of Revolution come to mind. Like "Wait, that ***berg isn't a relative for revolutioner ***berg?".
Also, many top Russian emigrants of later times, who tried to continue life of intelectual elite in the West was forced to blame only Stalin for all the shit Bolsheviks did in Russia. If they began to talk about those who really did that, naming surnames and everything, they quickly was kicked out of Western establishment for, you know - antisemitic views.
When you see somebody talking about bloody tyrant Stalin, check what he say about much worse bastards like Trotsky (Bronshtein), Zinoviev (Apfelbaum), Kamenev (Rosenfeld), Kaganovich and so on, who perpetuated real extermination of Russian population in 20-s and early 30-s. You will be amased, I assure you.
IDK, most in Russian, may be you could find books of somebody like Klimov translated. Also you could take the most hateful authors who worte a lot about "Evil USSR Empire", open the part about tyrant Stalin and carefully look what exact crimes Stalin did to be named a tyrant. Surnames of his victims and their profession, ideology and all that stuff will tell you everything.
Stalin was definitely an authoritarian ruler with his own idea of Soviet Empire. He obviously didn't care about human lives if necessary, but accounted people as an only available resource that could be used to build his Empire. And unlike his political rivals from trotskists side he perfectly understand that population is not a cattle and have to be cared and treated with respect to be effective for his plans. All in all his rivals, who see USSR population only as a cannon fodder for their World Revolution, was unimaginably worse for regular people than tyrant Stalin. Trotskists didn't care about education, industry, science, health care, food supplies, anything, they hated Russians religiously and cared only about their ideology.
Agree. Something like that, but more complicated. Trotskists nearly wanted destroy Russia / newborn USSR with creating starvation, destroying religion, traditions, industry all that stuff. The idea was to create a population that "owns nothing" that could be thrown into the fire of World Communist Revolution. Stalin had another plans so in 30s he began to exterminate Trotskists and their shills massively. That is why they so hate Stalin telling wet stories about gulags and trying to equal Stalin with Hitler for that. Do you see that fascinating acknowledgement from their own mouths - Stalin bad because he opressed trotskists and Hitler is bad because he opress jews. Stalin and Hitler are equally bad for that. Ergo, jews and trotskists are same group in the eyes of that public. As usual, they project casualities they inflicted to Russian population during years of Civil War, Wartime Communism, Collectivisation and all that stuff in 20s - ealy 30s to the Stalin regime who in reality stop that shit in mid 30s and exterminated most of trotskists as soon as he obtained some real power in country. And suddenly population become grow, industry rised and so on. Immidiately after their complete defeat in USSR, suddenly, WWII began to unwind. What a fascinating coincidence!
You could also notice interesting thing - only actual Soviet (Stalin) type of communism ideology was shamed and anticipated in the West, while all that Trotskists who evaded Stalin repressions was kind of untouchable and I never heard about any kind of Western prosecution of any of that gulag victims to be.
Today, many surnames in Western politics that floats on the top of political foam are the same as surnames of those who was declared Stalins victims. Seriously, reading Western news, many associations with History of Revolution come to mind. Like "Wait, that ***berg isn't a relative for revolutioner ***berg?".
Also, many top Russian emigrants of later times, who tried to continue life of intelectual elite in the West was forced to blame only Stalin for all the shit Bolsheviks did in Russia. If they began to talk about those who really did that, naming surnames and everything, they quickly was kicked out of Western establishment for, you know - antisemitic views.
When you see somebody talking about bloody tyrant Stalin, check what he say about much worse bastards like Trotsky (Bronshtein), Zinoviev (Apfelbaum), Kamenev (Rosenfeld), Kaganovich and so on, who perpetuated real extermination of Russian population in 20-s and early 30-s. You will be amased, I assure you.
Thanks for the insight, now for some research. Got any links you recommend?
IDK, most in Russian, may be you could find books of somebody like Klimov translated. Also you could take the most hateful authors who worte a lot about "Evil USSR Empire", open the part about tyrant Stalin and carefully look what exact crimes Stalin did to be named a tyrant. Surnames of his victims and their profession, ideology and all that stuff will tell you everything.
Stalin was definitely an authoritarian ruler with his own idea of Soviet Empire. He obviously didn't care about human lives if necessary, but accounted people as an only available resource that could be used to build his Empire. And unlike his political rivals from trotskists side he perfectly understand that population is not a cattle and have to be cared and treated with respect to be effective for his plans. All in all his rivals, who see USSR population only as a cannon fodder for their World Revolution, was unimaginably worse for regular people than tyrant Stalin. Trotskists didn't care about education, industry, science, health care, food supplies, anything, they hated Russians religiously and cared only about their ideology.
Thank you for some direction, I appreciate your input anon!