Deportation of Wolga Germans based on ethnicity instead if class
Outlawing homosexual partnerships between men
That he didn’t support the popular front in the Spanish civil war more
Stopping after Berlin
Stopping before Tokyo
Only the first 2 are big mistakes imo
Great leader overall
Definitely worth checking out, he’s a English literature professor at the Michigan state university.
He learned Russian and studied the Soviet archives for a decade, his main conclusion are that Kruschevs speech was a bunch of lies and that the Moscow trials were legit, Trotsky did indeed collaborate with Nazis and Japan