The USSR and Homosexuality Part V – Maxim Gorky: Proletarian Humanism (1934)

‘Humanism’ in our day, when the bourgeoisie is organizing fascism, itself ejects its own humanism as a worn-out mask that no longer covers the face of a predatory beast – it expels it because humanism is now perceived as one of the reasons for splitting and rotting. The facts mentioned above suggest that every time sensitive people are alarmed by the spectacle of the abominations in this world, they preach to humanity through a naïve desire to soften these abominations or cover them with eloquence – these are the masters of life, or shopkeepers- who allow this sermon only as an attempt to reassure people irritated by poverty, lack of rights, oppression and other inevitable results of the world ‘cultural’ activities preferred by the shopkeepers. As soon as this irritation of the working masses took on social-revolutionary forms, the bourgeoisie responded to this ‘(progressive) action with (regressive) reaction’.

Joseph Stalin Reconstructed – an Interview with Yakov Dzhugashvili (2013)

The great grandson of Joseph Stalin is sure that the exposure of anti-Stalin lies is necessary not only for the restoration of historical justice, but also for restoring to our (Slavic) peoples a protective mechanism that shields us against dangerous ideological aggressions, because the knowledge of our history grants us the ability to distinguish lies from the truth, the original from the fake.

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