Given that this community has generally positive view of Stalin, I’m curious what he did that my comrades find irredeemable or out of line. Since it’s easy to criticize the Soviet Union from a western perspective, bonus points if you explain how this was detrimental to the development of socialism and/or communism.
He underestimated the domestic reaction’s response to land collectivization and gave the kulaks a chance to be responsible collaborators in national construction, which they used to cause a famine.