Name: Anonymous 2016-08-01 4:57
Why wouldn't anyone?
leftist fascismThat is oxymoron. Ever seen feminists building concentration camps and gassing Jews?
autocraticJust like the fascists.
nationalistStalin was not a nationalist, he encouraged ethnic mixing and worked to destroy the notion of nation. For example, he deported many Caucasian and Baltic peoples to Asia in order to weaken their nationalist sentiments. It wasn't until Stalin's death that these people got a chance to return to their ancestral lands.
He was a communist and whenever someone disagreed with his leftist ideologies, he would order them killed or sent to labor camps. That makes him a leftist fascist.He also stopped or reversed all sorts of leftist reforms such as free love, free sodomy, worldwide revolution, and a whole shitload of other stuff.
Stalin was not a nationalist, he encouraged ethnic mixing and worked to destroy the notion of nation. For example, he deported many Caucasian and Baltic peoples to Asia in order to weaken their nationalist sentiments. It wasn't until Stalin's death that these people got a chance to return to their ancestral lands.That doesn't matter at all. He was primarily focused on building a Soviet state with people loyal only to that state. Ethnic factionalism is the antithesis of that. You've been reading too much racist ``alt-right'' trash from a certain imagereddit and that has left you with poor opinion of what nationalism is.
all sorts of leftist reforms such as free loveThose are liberal leftist reforms. Stalin was a fascist leftist, i.e. very non-liberal but leftist nonetheless. Just like on the right wing, there are liberals who want freedom and gun rights, and there are fascists who want a Fuehrer who will tell them when to wipe their ass.
He was primarily focused on building a Soviet state with people loyal only to that stateHe was building an empire, not a nation-state. Empires seek to destoy nations and fuse them into a single entity, nationalists seek to break away from empires and split into separatist nation-states. The very defining quality of an empire is that it contains more than one nation. When the Soviet Empire fell, there were about 15 nation states forming out of it. That's nationalism, and a reversal of what Stalin was doing. Your concept of nationalism is wrong.
Stalin has reinstated christianity in RussiaThis is obvious bullshit. What he did was install secret agents into the top ranks of the Church in order to control it. He only thought about Christianity as a way of controlling society to further his leftist goals. Today's leader of the Russian Communist Party is all Christianity-friendly too, he even says that there is the same moral code behind communism and Christianity.
Stalin was the head of the Communist Party and considered himself and adherent of the communist ideology and Leninist. That makes him leftist whether you like it or not.His politics was not leftists. While Lenin was relatively soft with peasants, Stalin has turned peasants into serfs once again. Lenin has also introduced https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Economic_Policy which was dismantled by Stalin, who took everything people had and turned them into complete slaves at collective farms. That decision led to the fall of USSR, because slave labour is very inefficient.
His politics was not leftistsHe did not introguce the free market or make the means of production private property, instead he perpetrated class war (Red Terror) as well as forced industrialization, all according to Marx and Engels' teaching. Hence his politics were purely leftist. If militant communism isn't Left, then I don't know what is.
Lenin has also introduced https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Economic_PolicyNow that's an example of a non-leftist policy. NEP was small-scale capitalism introduced as a forced measure. Stalin, on the other hand, ended this right-wing imperialist spree and forbade any entrepreneurship and speculation, showing he was more leftist than Lenin.
took everything people had and turned them into complete slaves at collective farmsGood morning! That's just communism for you. Mao Zedong did the same thing.
people ... really, really like living in a society with adequately funded public services.What people? Unemployed people? Because most hard working people would refuse to pay for the welfare of these parasites.