Is there A SINGLE FUCKING THING this guy did right...

>Because of propaganda and the fact that they had no actual what uncle joe was doing
Nah, it had more to do with the GPW.

Nah, there was just enormous improvements in literally all fields of Russian society.

He's your typical great man modernizer who even after decades of Russia trying to demonize him is still held in high regard by large chunks of the populace.

Not to say "Stalin dindu nuffin" of course it's just that the burger narrative of Stalin being Satan is completely at odds with the opinions of those who lived under him and the idea that Hitler was better to his people is fucking insane.

Hitler still has massive support among old farts in Germany and Austria, that doesn't make him a good leader.

Pol Pot edges him out on that I think. Stalin at least you can say he industrialized the Soviet Union. All Pol Pot gave Cambodia was empty cities and most of its population dead.
For the soviet masses you had absolutely no choice in worshipping Stalin until he died considering you'd get shipped to a gulag otherwise, so I'm not sure how we can truly rate his domestic popularity. As for internationally the true depths of crazy shit Stalin was pulling didn't come out until Khrushchev's secret speech. Until then he was supported thanks to misguided tribalism for the only socialist state, Soviet control of the tankies of the international Communist parties, and the fact the USSR was part of the Allies during WW2.

>and across the left internationally
There's a book on this topic somewhere, on leftist intellectuals studying russia while their counterparts were being imprisoned and censored

>Wages and their value were relatively stable in the Stalin years.
How do you know this? Soviet Union literally made up all their statistics. For example

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_the_Soviet_Union#/media/File:Graph_of_Soviet_National_Income_Growth.png

lol mustache daddy was based af.

OP's holodomor bullshit belongs on /pol/.

>Holodomor
>Bullshit
THEFUCK you mean

Only Neonazis believe in the Holodomor, because it was orchestrated by Jews, and Jews would never do something like that.

Have you noticed that every vowel in Holodomor is O? That can't be coincidental.

>Australia
>Canada
>Neonazi
O wiat I forgot