Thank you people for a vivid discussion. I was so sick of completeanachry and either “did nothing wrong” or “it’s just as bad as the media tells us” attitutes.

David Lynch said you have to enjoy what you’re doing because you can never be sure of the result.

Especially, when you see the garbage they post on COMPLETEANARCHY. Tankies were always right…

No hierarchies! Everyone gets to be the middle spoon equally!

Not sure if we can make it without vanguard posters?

We’re long into another cold war. Good think Russia has the pee pee tapes. And again Russia is standing between US imperialism and the people

Does the unsealing of these documents change anything? Do they still have immunity? There are these terrorists I always hear about, when we need them?

Countertake: I believe what the capitalists taught me to think.

Here at least one source for you. And as you can see, the bourgeios historian has exactly your take.

DeLaProle 13 points · 5 years ago

I know Robert Service is a bourgeois source but in his biography of Stalin he gives two examples of Stalin offering resignation:

On 27 December 1926 he wrote to Sovnarkom Chairman Alexei Rykov saying: 'I ask you to release me from the post of Central Committee General Sec*removed*y. I affirm that I can no longer work at this post, that I'm in no condition to work any longer at this post.' He made a similar attempt at resignation 19 December 1927.

Of course Service, as a bourgeois historian, goes into wild speculations about how Stalin just wanted them to beg him to stay and such but still the evidence is here and documented as such in many bourgeois sources.

From an October 23, 1927 speech at a meeting of the Joint Plenum of the CCCP and the Central Control Commission of the CPSU:

It is said that in that "will" Comrade Lenin suggested to the congress that in view of Stalin's "rudeness" it should consider the question of putting another comrade in Stalin's place as General Sec*removed*y. That is quite true. Yes, comrades, I am rude to those who grossly and perfidiously wreck and split the Party. I have never concealed this and do not conceal it now. Perhaps some mildness is needed in the treatment of splitters, but I am a bad hand at that. At the very first meeting of the plenum of the Central Committee after the Thirteenth Congress I asked the plenum of the Central Committee to release me from my duties as General Sec*removed*y. The congress itself discussed this question. It was discussed by each delegation separately, and all the delegations unanimously, including Trotsky, Kamenev and Zinoviev, obliged Stalin to remain at his post.

What could I do? Desert my post? That is not in my nature; I have never deserted any post, and I have no right to do so, for that would be desertion. As I have already said before, I am not a free agent, and when the Party imposes an obligation upon me, I must obey.

A year later I again put in a request to the plenum to release me, but I was again obliged to remain at my post.

What else could I do?

https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1927/10/23.htm#1

Gwouwz

Mine wanted me to identify trains and didn’t show any :(