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I can't believe there are Stalin apologists this day and age. Even if you're a supporter but ran afoul of him, you'd be given the same treatment as Nikolai Yezhov. That is, removed from history.
Such are the ways of Authoritarian dictators.
Remember when Khrushchev took the reins of power and found out that agricultural production had dropped since Stalin came into power, despite some 30 years of technological development?
Good times.
You're kidding me, right?
Electricity access during Stalin's reign only marginally increased after the initial successes in the 1920s - which, may I remind you, were plans formulated before Stalin took power, and executed before he had finished purging his enemies, including Trotsky. Fuck, as late as the 1950s, only some 10% of Soviet households had power, and the majority did not have indoor access to running water - that's why the Khrushchevka, basic as they were, were such a major step forward.
Action like a famine and oppressive dictatorship that returned them to the system they fought to leave?