Do you think that the purges and gulag system of the Stalin era of the old Soviet Union were a result of Stalin being a complete psychopath, or was it just paranoia?
2007-11-05 21:42:36 · 14 answers · asked by skullpicker 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
"...both Hitler and Stalin were abnormal. For laymen to debate, however, whether this means they were either clinically or legall insane is an unprofitable exercise....in neither case did it disable them from functioning as masterly politicians....Among the many people who had to deal with Stalin at close quarters, and who survived to give their impressions, it is hard to find one to say that he was mad. On the contrary, he left the impression of a man in full posession of his faculties who knew what he was doing, retained control of the situation....even when the fear and tension in Moscow became almost unbearable"
2007-11-06 02:14:51 · answer #1 · answered by peaco1000 5 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Stalin Psychopath
2016-11-07 03:51:49 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Great question.
I have read a couple of bios about Stalin, and the experts can't seem to agree if he was crazy or not! Definitely a bit disturbed, and really paranoid, but I do not believe he was crazy. I believe he was just evil and wanted power by any means necessary. Pyschopaths are people who are crazy and don't even know it, and they do crazy things. Stalin knew exactly what he was doing --- killing innocents!
2007-11-06 04:28:28 · answer #3 · answered by . 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Probably a combination of both. Although Stalin hated priviledge, he made sure that he had priviledge himself by knocking off alleged conspirators Mafia-style.
This is the same guy who accused WW2 Russian marshal Georgi Zhukov of a "cult of the personality" when he himself was a personality cult.
2007-11-06 05:40:41 · answer #4 · answered by chrstnwrtr 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Stalin was a psychopath the way many of us are. ie. not caring for others in the process of satisfying himself . Emotionally and ideologically. As he had an ideology that governed a state, the impact of his madness was much more
2007-11-06 01:23:29 · answer #5 · answered by sreekumar s 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Definitely
2007-11-06 04:10:44 · answer #6 · answered by brainstorm 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
For sure Josif Stalin died for a degerative illness of the brain that drove him to coma. In his last years he had signs of paranoia, probably due to this problem. But during the thirties he was not ill at all. He was simply pitiless.... His best word "Any man is a problem, no man, no problem"...
2007-11-05 21:50:14 · answer #7 · answered by lugfabio 3 · 5⤊ 0⤋
Yes he was a psycho
his rule was almost exactly the same as Adolf's in Nazi Germany. Their political views were also almost identical
2007-11-05 22:24:30 · answer #8 · answered by cp_scipiom 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
he was definitely not a psychopath he was just good in forseeing and anticipating things and a master in formulating political strategies... which we normal people unfortunately couldn't comprehend....
2007-11-05 22:21:57 · answer #9 · answered by michael b 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes, definitely.
2007-11-06 06:50:09 · answer #10 · answered by Rosina 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋