Israel gets all of the US’ top shelf goodies, and China gets access to them via Israel.

China traded with the government as usual. Intervention would mean China had sent troops to aid the government or train government forces.

Right after he ate all that ukranian grain, he yearned for some entertainment.

Prolespod has a multi episode series about the man. It also includes recently made available documents regarding the purges.

Imagine both Trump and Hillary dying during the election.

Bourgeoise restoration. His government was the only one that did not go peacefully.

He was also a huge alcoholic and forced his close government members to get hammered with him every single day. It seems more like alcohol onset dementia to me to be honest but it’s hard to say, especially being from North America and trying to sort out the truth through layers and layers of capitalist propaganda.

Yeah lots of lies, pretty much all of what you wrote that is wrong. Stalin smoked a lot, he didn’t drink excessively. Towards the end of his life that had take a toll, as did his habit of only sleeping 3 hours a day for years. The man worked himself to death.

As for the question of OP: No. Quite the opposite, he was almost too trusting towards his fellow people. One of the people who confessed during the great purge of having conspired to kill Stalin was defended by Stalin even while in jail.

Stories of Stalins bodyguard are also interesting, it took some serious convincing to use cars and not just walk through around all the time.

In the west the great Purge is presented as result of unfounded paranoia. Witnesses from the time and documents from the soviet archives (some very recently made available) tell another story. There was widespread organized sabotage, assassinations,collusions with foreign governments and several plots to coup the USSR. There also were excesses during the purge, do not get me wrong, but there were aboslutely threats to the state afot, too.

ProlesPod did cover the period with a truckload of sources if you are interest in further research: https://prolespod.libsyn.com/ Episodes 69 to 71.

Vaccines have been produced and improved. People could not take the lockdowns anymore. So things returned to normal.

All socialist states took it seriously, not just China. The DPRK outright closed its borders. Vietnam mobilized the entire nation to deal with lockdowns and development of test kits. Cuba was among the first to finish developping a vaccine.

New Zealand get praised for its low causalties, but if you look at its per capita numbers, it comes away worse than any socialist state. None of them as isolated as NZ, or as rich.