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But the way in which he did it was very costly. Stalin is comparable to Musk in that sense. In love with technology and factories, but too focussed on advancement no matter the human cost. Everything was about efficiency.
Christ. Musk is, if anything, more comparable to Henry Ford.
Billionaire car magnet with whole municipal governments in his pocket who wrecked public transit and spread antisemitism all over Europe? That's not the editor and chief at Pravda.
If you were to put Stalin anywhere in contemporary US politics, I'd say he's comparable to Shyam Sankar - the Palantir CTO who was recently granted the rank of Lt. Colonel in the US military. Or, perhaps, just straight up comparing him to Peter Thiel minus all the buggery.
Silicon Valley has swarms of these guys. Most of them aren't constantly pissing themselves from too much Ketamine.
If he hadn't been, would the USSR survived? That focus on technology, factories, and efficiency, no matter the cost, seems like the right approach when there's Nazis at your doorstep, conquering all of Europe and conducting mass exterminations.
Ussr survived thanks to allied aid and got to go on conquering all of europe and conducting mass extermination while putting other mass murderers in power who went on to cause some of the largest and most sadisic mass murders.
When did the USSR conduct "mass exterminations?"
The largest and most sadistic mass murders were by the Nazis, obviously. Are you trying to downplay the Holocaust?
Go fistfight ice, bot.
That's about what I expected lmao.
Nothing says "preparing for war against the Nazis and capitalists" like murdering your entire officer corps of true believers that won the Revolution that you didn't actually fight in