List of myths about Stalin

Stalin is the most defamed man in history. This is a list of myths about Stalin, promoting historical nihilism, typically spread by Trotsky, Khrushchev, and the CIA.

Below some points, you can see that every accusation is a confession.

Points with (K) are mentioned in Khrushchev's famous speech.

Early Stalinism

• Lenin wanted Trotsky to succeed him https://infrawiki.us/index.php/Joseph_Stalin See Lenin's Testament
• Stalin starved the Ukraine / the USSR: https://infrawiki.us/index.php/Soviet_Union#Manmade_famine_myth_and_Ukrainian_%22Holodomor%22_myth

- Nazis starved Ukraine: https://infrawiki.us/index.php/Great_Patriotic_War#Nazi_atrocities

• Everyone who confessed to terrorism in the USSR was tortured by Stalin https://infrawiki.us/index.php/Soviet_Union#Torture
• Stalin knowingly tortured and purged innocents (K) https://infrawiki.us/index.php/Soviet_Union#Yezhovshchina_(Great_Purge)

- Khrushchev tortured and purged innocents https://infrawiki.us/index.php/Nikita_Khrushchev#Early_Career_under_Stalin

World War II

• Stalin allied with Nazi Germany https://infrawiki.us/index.php/Great_Patriotic_War#Molotov-Ribbentrop_Non-Aggression_Pact

- The West allied with Nazi Germany https://infrawiki.us/index.php/Great_Patriotic_War#Western_bourgeois_support_for_Nazi_Germany_(1918-1939)

- Poland signed a non-aggression pact with Nazi Germany https://infrawiki.us/index.php/Great_Patriotic_War#Background:_Poland_1917-1939

• Stalin invaded Poland with Nazi Germany https://infrawiki.us/index.php/Great_Patriotic_War#Nazi_invasion_of_Poland_(September_1939)

- Poland took part of Czechoslovakia when Nazi Germany invaded it

• Stalin was an ethnic supremacist imperialist

- Poland was ethnic supremacist imperialist https://infrawiki.us/index.php/Great_Patriotic_War#Background:_Poland_1917-1939

• Stalin committed the Katyn Massacre https://infrawiki.us/index.php/Great_Patriotic_War#Katyn_Massacre

- Nazis committed it

• Stalin sovietized the Baltics undemocratically https://infrawiki.us/index.php/Great_Patriotic_War#Sovietization_of_the_Baltics_(Summer_1940)

- The Baltics were undemocratic under capitalism, being fascist dictatorships

• Stalin suppressed innocent Eastern Europeans who fought Nazi Germany https://infrawiki.us/index.php/Great_Patriotic_War#Nazi_collaborators
• Stalin didn't expect Nazi Germany to invade (K) https://infrawiki.us/index.php/Great_Patriotic_War#Course_of_the_War
• Stalin allowed the Rape of Berlin https://infrawiki.us/index.php/Great_Patriotic_War#%22Rape_of_Berlin%22

- Nazis committed far more rapes: https://infrawiki.us/index.php/Great_Patriotic_War#Nazi_atrocities

• Stalin forced Eastern Europe to become communist https://infrawiki.us/index.php/Great_Patriotic_War#Rise_of_Communism

- The West forced Western Europe to stay capitalist with Nazi terrorists in Operation Gladio https://infrawiki.us/index.php/Great_Patriotic_War#Nazis_defect_to_CIA

• Stalin was prepared to give Ukraine and Baltics to Hitler. Reported by numerous pro-Western sources (https://euromaidanpress.com/2016/06/20/archives-show-stalin-was-ready-to-give-hitler-ukraine-and-the-baltics-euromaidan-press/)

Reality: The primary source (https://web.archive.org/web/20160701101809/https://novayagazeta.ru/comments/73493.html) says that Lavrentiy Beria and Pavel Sudoplatov, under interrogation in 1953, said that Beria ordered Sudoplatov to negotiate with Hitler in strict secrecy. Beria of course said Stalin ordered him to, but Beria is not trustworthy (https://sovinform.net/Beria-Betrayal-1.htm). Sudoplatov also said Stalin was trying to deceive the Germans and buy time.

Other

• Stalin repressed religion https://infrawiki.us/index.php/Joseph_Stalin See Freedom of Religion
• Stalin created his own cult of personality (K) https://espressostalinist.com/2015/02/15/bill-bland-the-cult-of-the-individual-1934-52/

- Khrushchev supported Stalin's cult of personality https://infrawiki.us/index.php/Nikita_Khrushchev#Early_Career_under_Stalin

• Stalin acted alone as dictator (K)

- Khrushchev acted alone as dictator https://infrawiki.us/index.php/Nikita_Khrushchev#Attempted_removal

• Stalin dominated allied countries (K)

- Khrushchev dominated allied countries: https://infrawiki.us/index.php/Nikita_Khrushchev#Split_with_China_and_Albania and https://infrawiki.us/index.php/Nikita_Khrushchev#Effect_on_foreign_communists

• Stalin-Lydia Affair: Stalin had a relationship with a 13-year-old.
• Stalin promoted Lysenko's bogus theories https://infrawiki.us/index.php/Lysenko#Slander_of_Lysenkoism
• Gramsci was sympathetic to Trotskyism https://infrawiki.us/index.php/Antonio_Gramsci#Trotsky_vs._Stalin