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Revisionist history is pretty sick.

Killed more humans than Adolf, was planning deportation/extermination of Jews but died while the planning was in progress: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctors%27_plot, invaded probably the same number of countries than Adolf.

Yet glorifying of Stalin and walking around with a Red Star does not have much stigma.

HEYYOU says

Stalin is not President of the U.S.
Too Bad! He would take care of all the Right wingnut Republicans
It's all on Trump & Republicans.
Are we MAGA yet?

Stalin was both a communist and a "right-wing" nationalist. He liquidated the entire cross-section of left-wing internationalists, whom he called "Trotskyists." Under Stalin's rule, to be a member of or even sympathetic to the "Left Opposition" (led by Trotsyky, Zinoviev and Kamanev) was literally a crime punishable by rape, torture and execution; millions were indeed raped, tortured and mass-murdered for exactly that!

It's not clear whether Hitler was to the right or to the left of Stalin, although the German Natioanal Socialist Workers' Party (Nazi) was certainly more liberal than Stalin's Communist Party of the Soviet Union, and murdered less people.

drB6 says

Yet glorifying of Stalin and walking around with a Red Star does not have much stigma.

If the same number of people walked with Hitler's face held aloft, the Left and the Media would be absolutely flipping out.

Reality says

Left Opposition

That's Left Deviationist, Comrade. Talk to your Student Adviser Komissar to learn the politically correct, non-capitalist oppressive, non-bourgeois terminology.

TwoScoopsOfDragonEnergy says

Reality says

Left Opposition

That's Left Deviationist, Comrade. Talk to your Student Adviser Komissar to learn the correct, non-bourgeois terminology.

LOL! Stalin called them that, but they themselves named their alliance as "Left-Opposition/Alliance." Before Stalin took power, Zinoviev and Kamanev were very much antagonistic to Trotsky; that conflict to a large degree accounted for Stalin's rise to power (besides his own party organizational work promoting his cronies)

BTW, just in case anyone thought Trotsky was a saintly martyr, he wasn't either; Trotsky was a mass murderer in his own right during the Russian Civil War. He was reluctant to seize absolute power after Lenin died using his command of the military. A totalitarian regime like those Marx-Leninist-Fascist regimes always result in the worst scum rising to the top, liquidating all their colleagues in the process. It's really stupid for anyone to advocate/support those blood-thirsty revolutionaries. What the Lenin-Trotsky-Zinoviev-Kamanev-Stalin cabal created was a regime that was literally hundreds of thousands of times worse than the "tyrannical Czar," as measured by political executions.

Yep. And in 1917, Trotsky was also a sell out to the Menscheviks by joining the Bolsheviks.

Ever heard of Grover Furr? The guy is an unrepentant Stalinist.

Several Russian tanks had a machine gun facing rearward in the turret. This was primarily to shoot deserters who were forced into battle per Stalin.