10 Things You Should Know About Joseph Stalin

[Bala Perdida]

All time 10's new video. This is a website where I have found a surprising amount of Stalin influence, so what do you guys think of this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYOuoeaoj1U

[A Revolutionary Tool]

Meh, nothing interesting except maybe his webbed toes. Also why did it do the "Stalin killed 40 million people, Hitler killed 30 million people, and Mao killed 60 million people." Ten facts to know about Stalin, Mao killed 60 million people! :confused:

[Bala Perdida]

Meh, nothing interesting except maybe his webbed toes. Also why did it do the "Stalin killed 40 million people, Hitler killed 30 million people, and Mao killed 60 million people." Ten facts to know about Stalin, Mao killed 60 million people! :confused:
Yeah, there was a comment where a person said that unbiased research shows that the death tools for Stalin and Mao, at least, where a lot lower.

[Prometeo liberado]

#9. Stalin never broke par at the back nine at The Links in Scotland.
And he killed 40 million caddies all by himself.

[A Revolutionary Tool]

Yeah, there was a comment where a person said that unbiased research shows that the death tools for Stalin and Mao, at least, where a lot lower.
It's not just that either, it's really a irrelevant list of things to know about Stalin. This is one of the most important leaders of the 20th century, hate him or love him. So on a list of ten things you should know about Stalin why are basically any of them up there? The only one with any historical relevance is the number of deaths attributed to Stalin and maybe the hybrid man-ape thing. He liked Westerns? His left arm was shorter than his right? He's 5'4? What kind of trivia game are we going to be playing later on, these are all irrelevant to have an understanding of Stalin, this just seems like cheap sensationalist anti-communist stuff.

[Tim Cornelis]

Those ape-man things were supposed to become army combatants.

[Comrade Jacob]

Meh, nothing interesting except maybe his webbed toes. Also why did it do the "Stalin killed 40 million people, Hitler killed 30 million people, and Mao killed 60 million people." Ten facts to know about Stalin, Mao killed 60 million people! :confused:

It isn't important what they say, the majority of the third-world and the facts are on our side.
Also it was just a jab at Mao by comparing him to 2 times worse than Hitler, nothing more.

[Tim Cornelis]

It isn't important what they say, the majority of the third-world and the facts are on our side.

Har de har. 20,000 Indian fighters =/= majority of the third world. You're delusional.

[Comrade Jacob]

Har de har. 20,000 Indian fighters =/= majority of the third world. You're delusional.

The majority of the 3rd world support our interests, if they knew of it.
Communism is in the interests of the people especially the 3rd world.

[Tim Cornelis]

The majority of the 3rd world support our interests, if they knew of it. [which they don't]
Communism is in the interests of the people especially the 3rd world.

Right... They're not on your side.

[Comrade Jacob]

Right... They're not on your side.

That's why education is important.

[Vladimir Innit Lenin]

That's why education is important.

Don't be so fucking condescending.

You're sounding like a god squad preacher...."if only they knew what was good for them as we know".

Fucking hell. Education and propaganda are vital, clearly. But social change doesn't occur in a vacuum. Class struggle doesn't exist in a vacuum. It ebbs and flows according to social structures, institutional policy and many real-life factors, not just whether people know about this theory of the world or that theory of the world.

Believe me, i'm sure that most working people, either in the developed or developing world (please stop saying 3rd world, this isn't 1960), are fully aware of their own social conditions, and position in society, and why they are there. Class struggle intensifies, generally, because of factors related to the social conditions within which the class struggle occurs, not because some preacher from up on high has done his or her sales pitch on the glories of communism and the evils of them capitalist dictators.