I didn't say the USSR didn't doctor photographs to remove purged members. In my reply to your upper level comment, I explained why the purges were necessary and elaborated on their context. Nothing I said in that comment is counter to reality, I even brought sources.

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world -2 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I never said the purges were un-necessary, and I wasn't shitting on your comment.

I was shitting on the comment saying Stalin didn't do it, it was the CIA.

It's CLEAR Stalin did it, both the purges and the photo edits.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Then I'm confused at why you replied to my comment asking why you said it's okay to shit on Stalin on a Marxist-Leninist community. The implication is that MLs are anti-Stalin, but the general consensus hangs around the CPC's evaluation (given first by Mao) that Stalin was about 70% good, 30% bad.

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world -2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Because this thread got started because I was dunking on someone who tried to say "Naw, naw, it wasn't STALIN, it was the CIA."

Clearly a comment that needed crap.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

No, this thread got started when you tried to downplay the CIA's internal memo regarding Stalin's methods of leadership. Others denying that the photos were doctored by the USSR did come in, but after you made the initial comment. Your comment did one good thing though, it served as a nice springboard for me to address and contextualize.

To be fair, I don't doubt that the CIA may have embellished the extent to which photos were doctored as a part of its red scare tactics. Also, you still didn't answer my question about why shitting on Stalin is something you think MLs are supposed to do.

[–] myself@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 days ago

How on earth do you think Stalin would have even accomplished that? By that time the USSR didn't even have access to photoshop - hell nobody outside the cia even knew about it at the time