"We think that a powerful and vigorous movement is impossible without differences — "true conformity" is possible only in the cemetery" - Josef Stalin, Pravda, "Our Purposes."
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| The book on Stalin |
by Kudakwashe Kanhutu
One thing I must commend myself
on, is my tendency to doubt everyone else’s, but my own conclusions, on all the
subjects I am competent in. There are no experts but yourself when it comes to
studying and applying the lessons of history to your own purposes. I need not
labour this point as a lot of “experts” have been called out lately as fake
news and fake historians: remember the much written about claim that Shaka,
King of the Zulus, killed 2 million people during Mfecane? Never happened!
Stalin, however, is exactly
as he has been described to be. Much research – including travelling to Russia
itself – has made me conclude that Stalin, indeed, was the mass murderer
popular culture has cast him as. But, if I had not travelled to Russia, I would
not have seen, first hand, the features of Russia that redeem him. You should
see the Seven Sisters of Stalin and, as well, the most beautiful underground
transport system in the world – the Moscow Metro. I will be very brief as this
subject will be dealt with at length in a subsequent article. For all the
accusations of cruelty levelled against Stalin, he is credited with bringing Russia from being a
peasant country to a Superpower in less than 20 years. The question is; could
this have been achieved any other way? Do not forget that unlike the West,
Russia never participated in the slave trade that is, to an extent, the
foundation of Western prosperity.
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| In Moscow, I was Josef Stalin, myself, walking in the same gardens at the Kremlin Stalin walked to clear his mind. |
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| A memorial to the victims of the Gulags |
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| A memorial to the victims of the Gulags |
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| A memorial to the victims of the Gulags |
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| The Moscow Metro - the best in the world. |
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| The Moscow Metro - the best in the world. |
Stalin, however, is exactly
as he has been described to be. Much research – including travelling to Russia
itself – has made me conclude that Stalin, indeed, was the mass murderer
popular culture has cast him as. But, if I had not travelled to Russia, I would
not have seen, first hand, the features of Russia that redeem him. You should
see the Seven Sisters of Stalin and, as well, the most beautiful underground
transport system in the world – the Moscow Metro. I will be very brief as this
subject will be dealt with at length in a subsequent article. For all the
accusations of cruelty levelled against Stalin, he is credited with bringing Russia from being a
peasant country to a Superpower in less than 20 years. The question is; could
this have been achieved any other way? Do not forget that unlike the West,
Russia never participated in the slave trade that is, to an extent, the
foundation of Western prosperity. 
