Talk about Stalin and Stalinism?

To begin with, I do not recommend reading this text to people wringing their hands in a liberal denial of everything Soviet and imperial. Each person has the right to express their views, so I will use this very right, and I will not convince anyone if he does not support me. Dot.

2018 year. Stalin has been dead for 65 years. This is the time of active life and actions of 3 generations of people. And if, after such a long period, our society comes to almost scuffle "for" or "against" Joseph Vissarionovich, then there is something much deeper than just a banal protrusion of only negative or positive features of his personality, overgrown with legends and myths. What do we have in the bottom line, without undue emotions?

Crazy, explosive industrial and economic breakthrough, it would seem, written off by everyone after the First World War and the Civil War of the country. Moreover, far from being in a friendly atmosphere from the neighbors. With a dead economy, worn-out communications, collapsed production. This is the USSR of the beginning of Stalin's rule. Let us add to this the intra-Party squabbling with all the Trotsky-Bukharin-Zinoviev and other "opposition" currents. Well, imagine yourself in the place of the same Stalin. Well, did you play computer simulations or discuss over a cup of tea and coffee how you personally would change everything? Represented?

No, they forgot the nuances. There is no education to which you are accustomed, there are no benefits of civilization - people live without electricity, water, a system of quick access to information. Everything is done incredibly slowly. The skill level of the existing staff is disappointing. And if you are a smart person, who reads a lot, understands world affairs, and understands what will happen in about 10-15 years, then I am sure that it is unlikely that you will succeed, smiling peacefully, slowly and calmly solving a shaft of problems every day without systems and ordering.

And when you try to streamline everything from morning to evening and explain to your compatriots that if they do not accelerate and give all the best at 100%, then your “good” neighbors will crush your homeland. Some need “living space”, others need “a new sales market”, others need “elimination of competitors”. Kindness, in a word. How will you be in this rhythm and conditions in 5 years? After 10 years? Will you be able to act correctly and guess the moment when the then “European assembly” led by a broken Nazi psychopath decides to attack on your border? Will you trust the "allies", knowing that they have nurtured this swara against you?

Further more. Knowing that your army is just learning to fight, making terrible mistakes, paying with blood for the advancement of the well-functioning military machine of Germany and its satellites, will you take on the entire burden of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief? And having forged the Victory, nurtured its marshals and generals, how will you explain to your people that our "allies" are already drawing crosses on the maps, marking the cities on which they will soon be ready to drop atomic bombs (and you have this bomb still in the project, and its carriers - even more so)? Can you rebuild the huge industrial machine created during the war in a peaceful way, achieve a balance of industries, while maintaining the need to return to war footing?

CAN YOU ALL THIS WITHOUT YOUR current knowledge? With a trunk of books on various branches of the 1920-1940s, and a few associates, who, moreover, can banally fight and destroy your long-term projects if you suddenly step aside.

And now about Stalin. If you can do all of the above with the same input and, moreover, with less losses, then you are simply a Genius, a Great Master who has no equal. You can criticize Iosif Vissarionovich and his generation, because you have already given our country more ...

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