I mean, Stalin locked swaths of people up, incited pogroms, expelled political dissidents – but does that make those actions “Stalinist” in any context? It reads to me as an appeal to red scare sensibilities. In fact these are moves are out of any authoritarian’s playbook. It’s fascist brain drain. I think that’s all they’re saying. Granted ML tends toward tankie, but this take seems fine

Might I suggest vivaldi