Stalin looks back at those he sees as “enemies of the people” — these include clergy, capitalists (the hooked nose has a strong anti-semitic implication), ОБЛО́М = oblomov = failures/bums, Mensheviks (part of the Russian socialist movement in the early 20th century, but who were at odds with Bolsheviks) and various other enemies including Kulaks (better off peasants).
This is a poster produced in the Soviet Union in 1930, featuring the communists’ blood red banner, which given what happened there later that decade under Stalin was rather prophetic.
At the time Stalin saw the Soviet Union as still being engaged in class war and in fact, he saw class war as intensifying, and this provided one of the major justifications for the Great Terror from 1936 to 1938 in which whole classes of people were exiled or executed.
“With the same banner, we will win in the proletarian revolution all over the world”. –I. Stalin
This is a further statement that the Communists saw their objectives as applying world-wide and thus were the first real Globalists. Most Globalists today stem from the Hard Left.
Stalin ditched the Marxist ideological crap as far as he could, considering the milieu, revived Orthodox Christianity, shut down the Comintern as a nest of traitors, repudiated the modernist cultural garbage emanating from the USA as cosmopolitan and internationalist.
Globalism was hatched and propagated by the USA. When the US attempted to foist a World Government after WWII via the UN General Assembly, Stalin rejected this, insisting that members of the Security Council have the power of veto , hence he stymied a world state. Likewise with the Baruch Plan for the ‘internationalisation’ of atomic energy under the UN Atomic Energy Commission, which the USSR saw as another means of establishing a globalist state.
The US then attempted to launch a cultural offensive, and with the CIA and tax exempt foundations launched the Congress for Cultural Freedom, which sponsored Jazz and Abstract Expressionism as examples to the world of the wonders of American liberal-democracy. The CIA under Chord Meyer recruited a flock of Trotskyites , Bolsheviks, liberals, Social Democrats and sundry other Marxists and leftists disaffected with the USSR. It is within this Cold War milieu that the USA/CIA recruited the likes of Gloria Steinem to act as their mole at the World Youth Festivals, and likewise the use of the National Students Association, from which the New Left partly emerged.
Academia was taken over by neo-Marxist Critical Theorists from the Frankfurt School, whose doctrine of synthesizing Marxism with Freudianism was rejected by the USSR. They were sponsored to go to the USA by the Rockefeller Foundation and the US State Deportment, and ensconced firstly at Columbia University, and the New School for Social Research , and subsequently throughout academia. Some were employed by the OSS and subsequent CIA as experts, firstly on Nazism, and later on the USSR, chief among whom was Herbert Marcuse, who became guru of the New Left. While the USA sponsored Marcuse and his comrades, they were roundly condemned by the USSR.
It was Marcuse who formulated the doctrine of ‘repressive tolerance’; a typically Marxist dialectical sleight of hand which stated that there should be ‘freedom of expression’ – but not for those who dissent from the Left. Hence the Left today aim to repress all those with whom they disagree, in the name of ‘freedom’. According to Marcuse, only the Left is the repository of ‘truth’ (sic); ipso facto their critics are intellectually and ideologically persona non grata. Andrew Little’s ‘hate speech’ laws and the like are typical of this thinking.
During the Cold War Trotsky’s widow resigned from the Fourth international over the Korean War issue, as she supported the USA’s role in fighting the ‘Stalinists’ in North Korea, and regarded the USSR, not the USA, as the primary obstacle to the ‘world revolution ‘. She opined that her late husband would have agreed.
The compromised and exposed CCF was replaced by the National Endowment for Democracy , likewise founded and still headed by those coming from the Trotskyite Left, whose job is to promote ‘regime change’ in states not compliant with US globalization of the Soros/Rockefeller type.
Today’s so called Political Correctness emerged from this, what is often called the ‘cultural cold War’, and emanates from the USA. It was the USSR, once purged of Trotsky and much of the Marxist crap, and especially under to Stalinism, that resisted globalism more than any other. Russian Messianism (think Dostoyevsky or Gogol) is intrinsic to the Russian character whether behind the banner of Czarism, Bolshevism (which owed more to Herzen than Marx), or Putinism, interrupted by occasional aberrations such as Trotsky and Yeltsin.
Whether one regards Russian Messianism as preferable to the so-called ‘American Millennium’ or ‘Brave New World’ of Wall Street and Hollywood is a matter of opinion.
However, for whatever crimes Stalin committed, he cannot be blamed for globalism, or its attendant PC agendas and culture-junk.
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