re: #651 Leonidas Hoplite

So, Stalin wasn’t a communist? He was what then? A totalitarian using communist ideology to organize his state along fascist lines?

He was a communist who used communism to build a totalitarian country based around his cult of personality.

I never said communism can’t lead to totalitarianism. I said socialism does not lead to totalitarianism. Russia was a Czarist autocracy when it became communist, it did not have a socialistic government. There were some socialist in government for about 6 months before the communist government took control.