Memes

I said Stalin was a monster. And that’s an indisputable fact.

Hell yeah dude, you're 12

orchestrated famine

Utterly incorrect, as even "cold warrior" historians like Robert Conquest were forced to attest after the opening of the Soviet archives. And again, no motivation. Just "because evil".

He enacted paranoid political purges of engineers, scientists, academics, etc

Getting rid of monarchist figureheads is Good, Actually. Unkess you want to argue that people like Nick Fuentes should just be left alone to spread fascism during the fragile birth of a revolution? Utterly unserious. And again: "He". As if the Soviet union was ruled by one guy. An utterly historically illiterate take, you are simply repeating lazy mythology.

people he didn’t like

This is like when fascists say "you can't just call people you disagree with nazis." Oh really? Whats the disagreement? Who were these people the Soviet union didn't like? Might it have something to do with the genocide that was perpetrated on them, and the massive US invasion perpetrated before that? The fact that you cannot be specific at all is a dead giveaway that you're just regurgitating childlike mythology, on the level of "Hamas hates Jews".

And your defense is: nuh uh/Whataboutism.

Oh no, this is not a defense. History has shown that the actions of the Soviet union need very little defending. This is an attack on your Mormon-level incuriosity and refusal to engage with anything that challenges your mythology.

At no point did I defend capitalism

You did. You do. You pretend to oppose everyone while uncritically swallowing the most ridiculous capitalist propaganda about the people they fear. You guys are doing it right now with the "Free Iran" shit. You're a german in 1939 saying "Fuck the nazis of course, but how can you possibly support the baby-eating Bolsheviks??" In 70 years there will be another version of you talking about Mandani's communist genocide of new yorkers, unaware or unconcered with the fact that they are repeating wholesale fabrications from fascist sources.

Stalin was a monster. And that’s an indisputable fact.

This is you wishcasting. You very badly wish for it to be an indisputable fact, because you've built so much of your identity around it but fundamentally lack the knowledge to back it up. That's why you fall back on religious truisms. In the end, your only defense for your willful ignorance is "it is known": the chorus of the scared and incurious throughout history. And yet again, you frame him the The One Guy in charge when he was absolutely, unequivocally not. You have zero understanding of the subject and are desperately throwing out cold war cliches.

By the way, who did you vote for this past election?