![]() There is a perfidious lie that the regime of Stalin was a natural continuation of that of Lenin. ![]() In this video, Alan Woods explains how Stalin came to play this ignominious role. On this day in 1953, Joseph Stalin, the man who spearheaded the bureaucratic degeneration of the Soviet Union, died following a stroke. Yet how had the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 come to this? Fearing the ramifications for themselves, and for wider Soviet society, it is believed top figures of the bureaucracy may have hastened his end. By the 1950s, having instigated an antisemitic campaign against mainly Jewish doctors, Stalin was preparing for another mass purge. The longer he held power, the greater his paranoia grew. Stalin died in fairly suspicious circumstances. It was also a reign marked by spectacular catastrophes, such as the famine of the 1930s and the needless loss of millions of Red Army soldiers in the first stages of the war. His regime had been characterised by monstrous repression, with a river of blood separating his dictatorial rule from the genuine traditions of Bolshevism established by Lenin. On 5 March 1953, Joseph Stalin, the gravedigger of the October Revolution, died. ![]()
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