"I was responding to your assertion that Stalin was not a despotic monster"
I wasn't - I said it was facile to write him off as one - it's far more complicated than that
Of course he was a depot, but people like you use that fact to write off everything that was achieved at that time and why he was what he was and why he was where he was - unfortunately, to understand and discuss that you need to read something rather than scoop up something from the net to win prizes.
It really is pointless to try and carry on a discussion with people who do not have the interest to do that, as you have shown yourself to be often enough.
Jim Carroll