Was Joseph Stalin evil

Answer 1

it is hotly debated by the left and the right wing if Stalin was a saviour or a mass murderer

firstly his childhood was pretty messed up and violent he was a streetfighter, a pirate, a crime lord and a murderer. as to his "evil" deeds as a politician he pilliged towns in the soviet- polish and Russian cililwar in 1920s. as dictator of the ussr he purged the communist party, the military and the country in the 1930s sending the victims ethier to death or to work camps were they could die. he also started collectivition (neo serfdom of the peasents) in the 1930s which resulted in a famine in the ukcrain and russia, he also killed farmers that didnt fall into line. in WW2 he killed many inocent politicle prisoners, killed poles, deported minorites to siberia and killed German prisoners, he also shot his own soldiers made bad war decions, killed comanders and let his army ravage countries. at the end of the war he rounded up German civillian and made them work in siberia many died, he even reopened some nazi consentration camps and killed polliticle enemies. he also sold weapons to other countries during the cold war. but unlike Hitler it can be argued that all of his crimes helped make the USSR great and increased standerds of living

Answer 2

No but he was very selfish.

Not evil Communists

Karl Marx

Vladimir Lenin

Leon Trotsky

Evil Communists

Joseph Stalin

Mao Zedong (he was also a very poor leader regardless of what the Chinese say)

Answer 3

Yes. The fact that the other answer insist he isn’t, and lists some of the biggest mass-murdering despots of the modern age (Mao, Lenin, Trotsky) as “good” should tell you what you need to know about the inherent evil of Communists.