Stalin Wasn't Stallin' (Golden Gate Jubilee Quartet)

That's the original song from 1943, recorded by the a capella gospel group Golden Gate Jubilee Quartet.

This song praises the efforts of the Soviets to stop Hitler and his armies and drive them back to Germany.

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Music

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• ww2
• gospel
• stalin
• golden
• gate

[mogenim]

Shut up and dance!

[eisidisirock]

Cant get this damn song out of my head!

[Yakovlievich]

I can never understand why anyone on the right (mainstream or extreme) can possibly be offended with the abuses of power under the Soviet Union. Power concentrated into the hands of few; wealth unevenly distributed; no democracy; no free society - a perfect instantiation of right-wing ideals and practices. It's only leftists, liberals and anarchists that can criticize according to their beliefs.

[Scientisticsoviet]

@Scientisticsoviet *era

[Scientisticsoviet]

@Khayyam1048 I can send you some good academic non-marxist sources on the Stalin ear related research. I'll send a private message.

[viago2]

@GRANDMASTERKANE thank you for your inane racist utterances grandmasterc**t. why dont you go die some place where the sun dont shine bubba. im guessing you are probably the village intellectual from some inbred southern state. do you, by chance, play the banjo?

[Khayyam1048]

Thank you for that gem of advice, scientisticsoviet. Back to school for me, then, to find out why a handful of Marxist academics think that I should forgive Stalin for being a tyrant who murdered tens of millions of people.

Incidentally, I'm pretty sure I've mentioned this before, but - pace the learned political analysts and historians of the Golden Gate Quartet - I'm pretty sure that Stalin DID stall when agreeing to the Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact.

[GRANDMASTERKANE]

stalin was ultra conservative, not a dam left thing about him, dumass coons yall just dont understand, he was a tsar, a right-wing auto-crat with a strong mustache, that is all folks, now go fuck up

[Scientisticsoviet]

@Khayyam1048 The problem is that literature is likely to be much more far removed from reality than academic work. Now even though academic research might be quite dry, once understood, it's insights are more profound and important I think.

[Mrdie]

@Khayyam1048 Orwell himself said that, "The revolutionary atmosphere of Barcelona attracted me deeply, but I made no attempt to understand it." Being a great writer is all fine and dandy, but Orwell's book does not suffice as the final word on the SCW, nor as a good introduction to it.

My "Stalin was a communist" comment was directed at others, and space restraints prevented me from noting as such.

[Khayyam1048]

@Mrdie I could do, but I'd rather read a work of literature by a great writer than academic hackwork by tenured nobodies. Thanks for pointing out to me that Stalin was a Communist - I'd never have guessed!

[Mrdie]

@Khayyam1048 You could always read books by actual scholars about the Spanish Civil War. Paul Preston's book is a good start, and on PCE influence in Republican Spain there is Helen Graham's "The Spanish Republic At War." Orwell's book is alright (if obviously not fond of the Communists), but it is NOT one which explains the SCW to any significant extent. Stalin was definitely a Communist. Look up his interview with H.G. Wells where he debates Marxism with him.