You should call them Progressives, not liberals. They don't see themselves as "liberals" any more. Calling evil by its true name has great power, and it also really, really triggers them. Seriously do it do them in person and it's like a scene from The Exorcist.
That incredibly broad definition, which makes anyone who isn't a bootlicking monarchist a "liberal" (including the writers of the US constitution) is basically the conservative version of "everyone i don't like is a fascist".
It's all about the show and performance than any true power, say what you will about Stalin, but he was WAY more terrifying by simply erasing you from history or using your death as an excuse to purge when he ordered the hit.
I put under the same bracket as the CIA being the ones that killed JFK, there's no hard evidence for it but looking at the aftermath, they profited the most from it.
"no hard evidence" is not the required standard. There may be no "hard evidence" that COVID came from the WIV, but there is overwhelming circumstantial evidence, which is more than enough to compel that it did as the only reasonable conclusion.
The weight of the evidence is that Stalin was behind the assasination. Stalin had the strongest motive to kill Kirov, and was in the highest possible position to be ordering assassinations. It is difficult to imagine that all the NKVD errors were due to stupidity and not intent, or that the NKVD would act as it did without Stalin's approval. It's a bit like saying there is no "hard evidence" the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia was involved in Khashoggi's murder.
upon his transfer (at the order of Stalin) from Azerbaijan to Leningrad, Kirov bitterly complained about the situation in letters to his wife. Kirov's letters show that he was very unhappy to have been called to vacation with Stalin in Sochi in the summer of 1934. Also a speech Kirov gave around the time of Stalin's fiftieth birthday. At that time, party leaders were revering Stalin in their orations. Kirov not only damned his boss with faint praise, but went so far as to bring up Lenin's Testament, in which Stalin was described as rude and unfit to rule.
the floor on which he was killed had restricted access; Kirov's bodyguard was too far behind him to be of assistance, and was killed the next day in a mysterious truck accident; and the shooter had been caught by the NKVD at least once prior to the assassination in possession of a handgun and released.
Although it was commonly assumed that Kirov had arrived unexpectedly at the Smolny Institute, in fact one of his bodyguards had called at least one-half hour before his arrival, leaving (limited) time for the plan to be set in motion. Strangely, the assassin was found unconscious at the scene. Witnesses in the hallway provided conflicting stories that were never investigated by the NKVD; moreover, the police did not close off the building immediately after the murder.
Russia was "Stalin did it" throughout the Cold War. Russian policy shifted around 30 years ago not to rehabilitate Stalin, but instead to rehabilitate the NKVD -> KGB -> FSB. Putin especially had an incentive to rehabilitate Stalin so that he wouldn't be accused of the same things.
ThatsAlright is a tankie.
Weird then that a fake country manages to be better at being a country than does China
You should call them Progressives, not liberals. They don't see themselves as "liberals" any more. Calling evil by its true name has great power, and it also really, really triggers them. Seriously do it do them in person and it's like a scene from The Exorcist.
That incredibly broad definition, which makes anyone who isn't a bootlicking monarchist a "liberal" (including the writers of the US constitution) is basically the conservative version of "everyone i don't like is a fascist".
It's all about the show and performance than any true power, say what you will about Stalin, but he was WAY more terrifying by simply erasing you from history or using your death as an excuse to purge when he ordered the hit.
Most historians claim that there is no hard evidence at all that Stalin ordered the hit on Kirov, or even knew of it.
I put under the same bracket as the CIA being the ones that killed JFK, there's no hard evidence for it but looking at the aftermath, they profited the most from it.
JFK wanted to pump the breaks on the intelligence community. Clearly the CIA and LBJ disagreed.
"no hard evidence" is not the required standard. There may be no "hard evidence" that COVID came from the WIV, but there is overwhelming circumstantial evidence, which is more than enough to compel that it did as the only reasonable conclusion.
The weight of the evidence is that Stalin was behind the assasination. Stalin had the strongest motive to kill Kirov, and was in the highest possible position to be ordering assassinations. It is difficult to imagine that all the NKVD errors were due to stupidity and not intent, or that the NKVD would act as it did without Stalin's approval. It's a bit like saying there is no "hard evidence" the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia was involved in Khashoggi's murder.
upon his transfer (at the order of Stalin) from Azerbaijan to Leningrad, Kirov bitterly complained about the situation in letters to his wife. Kirov's letters show that he was very unhappy to have been called to vacation with Stalin in Sochi in the summer of 1934. Also a speech Kirov gave around the time of Stalin's fiftieth birthday. At that time, party leaders were revering Stalin in their orations. Kirov not only damned his boss with faint praise, but went so far as to bring up Lenin's Testament, in which Stalin was described as rude and unfit to rule.
the floor on which he was killed had restricted access; Kirov's bodyguard was too far behind him to be of assistance, and was killed the next day in a mysterious truck accident; and the shooter had been caught by the NKVD at least once prior to the assassination in possession of a handgun and released.
Although it was commonly assumed that Kirov had arrived unexpectedly at the Smolny Institute, in fact one of his bodyguards had called at least one-half hour before his arrival, leaving (limited) time for the plan to be set in motion. Strangely, the assassin was found unconscious at the scene. Witnesses in the hallway provided conflicting stories that were never investigated by the NKVD; moreover, the police did not close off the building immediately after the murder.
Russia was "Stalin did it" throughout the Cold War. Russian policy shifted around 30 years ago not to rehabilitate Stalin, but instead to rehabilitate the NKVD -> KGB -> FSB. Putin especially had an incentive to rehabilitate Stalin so that he wouldn't be accused of the same things.
I don't think we would have video of anything coming from China that was actually important.
This whole story is just a psyop on someone. Probably trying to stir up anti-China sentiment I guess.
My guess is this is for internal Chinese consumption, but it probably is indeed a psyop.
holy necromancer 1:30, Song Ping is still alive