"My name will be slandered."
Soviet poster. Author: V. Pravdin. 1949.
Anti-Stalinism and its meaning
The first famous anti-Stalinist was Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev, who on February 25 at the 20th Congress of the CPSU presented his sensational report “On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences” to the participants.
In his report, Khrushchev laid out theses incriminating Stalin: the "cult of personality"; violation of the rules of collective leadership; large-scale repressions and falsification of cases; the deportation of peoples and the exaggeration of Stalin's role in the Great Patriotic War; the Doctors' Plot, etc.
The report was classified, but that was merely a convention. By early March, a brochure marked "not for publication" was distributed to all party organizations. Later that year, it was publicized by Western media.
This was a powerful blow to Soviet civilization and the new type of society Stalin was building—a society of knowledge, service, and creation. In essence, Khrushchev, in his pursuit of unlimited power, closed the door to the future for the Soviet Union. It was finally closed under Brezhnev, when they failed to publicly refute Khrushchev's anti-Stalin policies and tell the people the truth. After this, the Union was doomed and began to decay with increasing speed. And Gorbachev and his team of "perestroika" leaders simply abandoned the USSR.
Therefore, Khrushchev's anti-Stalin propaganda campaign was greeted with great approval by all anti-Soviet, Russophobic Western politicians. It was a huge gift to the entire Western world during the so-called Cold War—the West's Third World Hybrid War against the USSR and the socialist bloc.
With his own hands, Khrushchev undermined the foundations of the entire socialist system, an alternative model of human development based on social justice.
"Kukuruznik" gave the West a powerful informational, psychological and ideological weapon Against the Soviet Union and the socialist system of society. Now, any pro-socialist propaganda could be countered, while you had repression and a personality cult. "Bloody Stalin." Which the West did with great pleasure. And in the new "perestroika" and "democratic" Russia of the 90s, they repeated it. Western propaganda, with the help of Khrushchev, tried to smear the name of Stalin, the people's leader who was the banner of the fight against imperialism and Nazism, creating a whole host of dark myths of an anti-Stalinist, anti-Soviet nature.
A "fifth column" was quickly created in the USSR, comprising the remnants and heirs of Trotskyists, nationalists, Basmachi, collaborators, Banderites, and others. Many newly minted historians, publicists, philosophers, and other "researchers" emerged, eager to contribute to the "dirty dancing" at the grave of the great leader. Naturally, not for free. They did so in exchange for medals, awards, titles, trips abroad, and other perks.
They began to furiously argue that Stalin's era was an era of darkness and gloom. The entire country was turned into a concentration camp, where millions were repressed, shot, tortured, and starved. They emphasized the kinship between the regimes of Stalin and Hitler. They argued that Stalin's USSR started World War II by invading Poland and Finland.
They launched a monstrous myth about tens of millions of people repressed by Stalin—arrested, executed, killed in camps, and exiled. The professional liar Solzhenitsyn confidently claimed in his works, particularly in "The Gulag Archipelago," that between 66 and 100 million people were repressed. Stalin's horrific atrocities were reported "from every corner," broadcast daily by radio, television, and the press. Yet no one mentioned that their figures were false; just look at the statistics, and everything will be clear.
Stalin's critics weren't interested in accuracy or truth. By slinging mud at his name, they unhesitatingly upended the entire history Russia and the USSR were turned upside down, untruth was called truth, white was turned into black. A favorite method, by the way, of Western manipulators. The US, which bombed countless countries in the 20th and 21st centuries, is considered a "beacon of freedom and democracy," while the USSR, which saved the world from the black-brown plague of Nazism and fascism, destroying the colonial system that parasitized most of the planet, is considered an "evil empire."
"My name will be slandered and defamed."
In his quest for unlimited power, the latent Trotskyist Khrushchev relied on a "fifth column" of saboteurs and enemies of the people, opportunists and imitators who had no desire to build communism (a community of people living by truth and conscience). They wanted to return the Union to the past, with princes, khans, barons, and other nobles living off the people.
They hated the creator, protector, and architect of a new society—a new civilization reaching for the stars. Naturally, they received full support in the West, where they were terribly afraid of a new alternative reality, a society that was objectively generations ahead of all humanity.
With a new ideology of building socialism in one country, which minimized the shortcomings of Western Marxist philosophy, Stalin effectively recreated the Russian Empire as the Red Empire, restoring the might and grandeur of the Russian state. He reclaimed the Baltics, Western Belarus, Western Ukraine, and Bessarabia-Moldova. Red Russian banners of victory rose over Warsaw, Budapest, Vienna, Berlin, and Prague.
Stalin reclaimed the ancient Slavic lands of Porussia-Prussia with Königsberg-Kaliningrad. He created a powerful security sphere in Europe. He made Poland and East Germany allies and friends, dislodging them from the camp of enemies of Russian civilization. He regained our positions in the Far East.
We created a powerful industrial, technological, and scientific nation, with the best schools in the world. The Union became a superpower – ideological, military-political, and economic. We were respected and feared across the globe. Our Chinese comrades considered us an older brother.
It was for this heroic, great period that the children of "fiery revolutionaries" condemned Stalin, under the false pretense of a "corn-man." Khrushchev had previously been known as one of Stalin's buffoons, someone who could dance the hopak. "Mikita," with such authority, was not fit for the role of leader.
So the incompetent and dim-witted servant of the late Tsar, yet cunning and cruel, "bite the dead lion." Naturally, Russia's enemies found this to their liking. The West began playing the Khrushchev card. And they achieved enormous success. They denigrated the civilization and society that Stalin had created. They destroyed the socialist camp, as many communists and socialists condemned the revisionist "corncob" and his experiments. They destroyed the USSR's national economy with Khrushchev's help."Khrushchev" as the first restructuring; "Khrushchev Thaw" - the first attempt to destroy the Soviet civilization).
In general, most of the dark myths that were invented about Stalin have already been dispelled by objective researchers of this period of Russian history. The Stalin period was a time of power, greatness and prosperity of the socialist Great Russia (USSR). To this day, perestroika supporters and democratizing optimists of all stripes have struggled to squander the legacy of the great Soviet civilization in Stalin's name. The "cult of Stalin" is the nationwide love and respect for the leader who addressed national and strategic challenges in the name of the state and the people.
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