Comments by "Voryn Rosethorn" (@vorynrosethorn903) on "Russia’s 'Bolshevik Revolution' a 'Communist Coup'" video.

Stalin was a Russian imperialist who continued the russification polices of Alexander III and on top of that he won WW2 an event that if lost would have lead to the Russians facing their own final solution by the Nazis and an event that is thus very important to the national myth. As a result they are more than happy to sweep under the rug his own genocides, mass killings, oppression, corruption, undermining of the long term prospects of Russia and the freedom he gave to lackeys like beria to molest individual members of the populous however they wished. He was also unlike those who seceded him dedicated to making the system work rather than being content to sail a sinking ship he however did so with little regard to the cost of human life nor the value of maintaining anything that have been of use in making Russia powerful in the first place (because few of them aligned with Soviet ideology). Lenin and Trotsky were similar in many way's if not worse within the actions even if they didn't quite manage the scale and it's odd to say the least that people outside of Russia and non-marxist historians still seem to have a rosy view of them when they made most fascist dictators outside of Hitler look like girl scouts. The criticism of Stalin within Russia will likely increase as they come to terms with how much damage he did. I doubt the Russians with ever self-flagellate like the Germans do about things, after all Stalin always made sure to keep ethnic Russians well represented in the casualty lists (though of course even more so if they had polish sounding names or lived in a Volga town with a German name).
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