Why the hell did none of the generals or Party members ever think of just arresting this bastard? I mean, when Stalin locked himself away after learning of Adolf Hitler's betrayal, he was worried the men that came for him would arrest him and remove him from power, so it's clear that they *could* do it if they wanted to.
I never understood that with despotic dictators. Why don't the Party and the people just turn against them when it's clear they're not doing any good for the nation?
>>915289
Have fun trying to arrest him and then the rest of your cheeky breeky friends get scared and jump to his aid instead. Or have fun trying to bring up the idea of arresting him and immediately getting sold out by one of your friends. Or have fun managing to arrest him and then being quickly disposed of as a rival for the reigns of power once he's gone.
It's like when one guy with a gun is holding up dozens of people. Obviously he can't kill them all if they bum rush him but in order for the move to be made someone has to be willing to take on a lot of risk. Even worse than that in the case of a dictator you can't necessarily trust the other people being threatened.
>>915289
Do you understand how paranoid people in such regimes are in high places? He was a hated man for sure. Same thing with Adolf, these both people feared for their life all the time. Stalin went full paranoid -mode in his old days as the Doctor's Plot proves (Stalin went full Jew conspiracy -mode )
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalin_and_antisemitism
60 million people. It shall never be forgotten.
>>915393
>dude is an asshole but is powerful
>some guy you kinda know says hey let's kill powerful dude
>you can either chance it and go along with it or take the sure thing, sell him out, and reap the rewards
>>915393
I'm not going to be able to succinctly explain the nuances of power politics and human interaction in one post to make you realize why everyone didn't rise up at once against the evil Stalin. (And I don't mean that in a mean way I mean that in a there's too much stuff to talk about way)
So I'll just say this, our survival instinct gears us to be more keen on maintaining the status quo if the alternative might endanger our lives. The change of dying may be very very low but our survival instinct still makes us incredibly heistant to take the chance.
If you really want to know more it might be better for you to say, "Well why didn't someone just walk into his office and shoot him in the head" or "Well why didn't someone get a guy they absolutely knew wouldn't rat him out and walk into his office and shoot him in the head". Then people can explain to you why that wouldn't be a sure thing.
>>915289
My African History of Women professor said the reason the Communists had to kill so many people is the capitalists forced them to.
People forget that 60,000,000 is just a number based off no inquiry or physical evidence.
>>915289
Because most people in the party liked him and were confident in his abilities. The hate for Stalin is a meme peddled by the jealous (Trotsky) and megalomaniacal (Truman and Churchill).
>>916722
BUT ANON THAT'S HOLOCAUST DENIAL YOU'RE WORSE THAN HITLER !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>it took a Yugoslav's power to kill the Georgian dictator of Russia
gg Ruskis
>ITT: Trotskyist trying to bring down one of the URSS greatest leaders through revisionism.
Those condemned as traitors by the Stalin gobernment were probed anti-revolutionary, wich pretended to break down the socialism in benefit of a bourgeois monarchy. Fifth columnist had to be taken down in order to keep the CCCP strong, and all was tergiversed by Jrushchov and his followers in 1956.
