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Stalin beats Trotsky partly because Trotsky becomes associated with Jewish/transnational-capital betrayal after capital refuses to rebuild Russia.
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Stalin
Jiang speculates that Spyridon Putin was humble, selfless, Orthodox Christian, and admiring of Stalin, helping transmit a Stalin-as-messiah story to Vladimir Putin.
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Jiang speculates that Spyridon Putin was humble, selfless, Orthodox Christian, and admiring of Stalin, helping transmit a Stalin-as-messiah story to Vladimir Putin.
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He contrasts Lenin and Trotsky as atheist Marxist intellectuals hostile to Orthodoxy with Stalin as a seminary-formed figure whose World War II mobilization relied on Orthodox religious and nationalist sentiment.
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Jiang presents World War II in Orthodox-mythic terms as a struggle between Moscow as Third Rome and Nazi Germany as Antichrist, with Stalin as the chosen one who could redeem Russian civilization.
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The hypothesis says an Orthodox/Soviet elite believed Stalin would return and that Spyridon Putin could have introduced Vladimir Putin to this network as a possible second coming of Stalin.
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Jiang reads Putin's secret baptism and his mother's devotion as a dog whistle to Orthodox fanatics and as a claimed similarity with Stalin's seminary background.
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Stalin is presented as an Obermensch figure who steps out of history and warps reality to his will, rather than as merely a successful Soviet bureaucrat.
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Stalin's marginal Georgian status, downward mobility, and abusive father made him a plausible recruit for criminal networks, revolutionary organizations, and the secret police.
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"...everyone assumes that Trotsky would be the new leader. But it's Stalin that becomes the new leader. Okay? Why? Because after war ends, there's..."
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"...then screw us over in the end. Okay? And that's why Stalin won. All right. So let's go over the difference between Leon Trotsky..."
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"And that's why Joseph Stalin won in the end. And this is terrible for the Jews, the Bolshevik Jews who believed in a revolution..."
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"And if you're powerful, then you can start to do favors for the people. You can promote their careers. You can also save their..."
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"...I suspect is that he really loved and admired Lenin and Stalin especially Stalin because remember in World War two Hitler invaded the Soviet..."
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"...that it was Orthodox Christianity that kept Russia feudal primitive backward Stalin is different because Stalin was not a Marxist intellectual he never went..."
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"...was Nazi Germany and the Orthodox Church then had to see Stalin as Messiah as as the chosen one who would lead them totally..."
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"that he truly is Messiah because remember Jesus had to die before we could be redeemed and Jesus had to die before the world..."
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"...it is possible that he could be a second coming of Stalin okay and so this helps us understand and answer the second question..."
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"...and extreme Russian analysts out there that, in fact, Putin and Stalin have a lot of similarities. In fact, they're probably the same person...."
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"Good morning. So today we do Justice Stalin and I want to make you the argument that Justice Stalin is probably the greatest man..."
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"are the three main reasons why I consider Stalin to be certainly the greatest man of the 20th century and quite possibly you can..."
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