Thank you for editing your post, it literally proves my point.

Maybe do not accept everything his detractors said about him as holy gospel. And stop projecting, holy shit.

You know, when you change the name of a thing, you totally change its essence too! Or something like that, I’m no anarchist.

“It wasn’t a prison. it was a prison by another name!!11111”

Those communists wanted to coup the USSR and had connections to the nazis. Your point is incredibly childish.

Being the poster boy of the red scare means that his government was effective enough to scare the piggies. You only get smeared if you’re feared. I assume you rather had it that he’d be loved by all the piggies out there so that they would not do a red scare that would force you to use your intellectual muscles to dispell the bullshit. Reality doesn’t work that way.

Factually wrong, he was a excellent socialist.

The man tried to resign four times. It always was denied.

Trotsky and Bukharin constantly crossed him and he let them until hey tried to murder him. Hell, he defended Bukharin even then.

In short you are off by several universes.