It’s a top secret report created by the informational gathering apparatus of a global super power/nation state, with all the interest to get an accurate picture of their geopolitical rival, but also with the interest to keep their population not in the know (not it’s like the only time in US history). The fact that it fits with other historical accounts of Stalin by e.g Domenico Losurdo.
Funny how you libs always pull out skepticism when it’s against the western narrative. Even if it’s unvaluated, it’s not going to be significantly off. The CIA is pretty good at what they do
Can you point to any of CIA’s metainfo about this file? Since I don’t think we have anything more than this is some CIA file, but no info about who compiled this info, what they base it on, how has it been evalued (other than at the time it was apparently unevalued) and so on. You don’t even know what the CIA thought of this document. We just know they have it.
Do we just take it as true because it’s from CIA, even though we have no other information about it or what?
Funny how you libs always pull out skepticism when it’s against the western narrative
I mean are you against being sceptical of some random ass CIA document with big ass text on top of it about it being “unevaluated information”? Say it ain’t so.
Can you point to any of CIA’s metainfo about this file? Since I don’t think we have anything more than this is some CIA file, but no info about who compiled this info, what they base it on, how has it been evalued (other than at the time it was apparently unevalued) and so on. You don’t even know what the CIA thought of this document. We just know they have it.
Might as well ask Snowden or a top ranking official
Do we just take it as true because it’s from CIA, even though we have no other information about it or what?
Why do you think they host it?
I mean are you against being sceptical of some random ass CIA document with big ass text on top of it about it being “unevaluated information”? Say it ain’t so.
It doesn’t sound like you have any of the info that would make this a credible document. CIA hosts a shitload of documents and a lot of them are absolute bunk and directly contradictory. They’ve collected a lot of reports over all the decades they’ve been around, that’s sorta their job and then they evaluate that information and based on that try to sus out the true information. Unfortunately we have no idea what the CIA itself thought of this info, at the time of release they haven’t evalued it. It’s almost like finding a book in a library and believing it to be credible because it’s a well known library that has that book.
Let me ask it this way: what makes you think that this report is credible, factual and trustworthy?
Let me ask it this way: what makes you think that this report is credible, factual and trustworthy?
I already answered above. It fits into the picture of historical accounts of Stalin and of how bias and interests work in regards to a nation state and it’s geopolitical competitors.
You’re convently ignoring the context in which this document exists and how its content relates to it.
It’s almost like finding a book in a library and believing it to be credible because it’s a well known library that has that book
Your try at abstracting something this complex fails. It’s more akin having two libraries with two different accounts of history where some books are deliberately hidden (for various reasons, it exists and wasn’t destroyed). This is a now a made-public book confirming the other libraries accunt history with their own source
Also:
The CIAs work is sloppy and they lie to themselves in their top secret documents. It was a soviet double agent collecting this
It sounds like you consider this document good evidence because it already aligns with what you believe in and not on the merits of how the information was gathered, how it was verified or any sort of other merits you’d usually evaluate such information when you want to use it as evidence.
And I don’t think CIA was sloppy. But this again hasn’t been even evalued by them, as it says on big bold letters right at the start. We have no idea what CIA actually thought of this document since we have basically no info on it. Sorry to say.
We’re discussing the account of Stalin and collective leadership vs top down and not the validity of this document. Good try on moving the goal post.
Also It’s not good evidence, but a valueable piece of a larger puzzle, where one understands the dynamics of political economy and has to piece it together through these. If you’d read any theory at all, you know history is always written by the dominant class and one has to read through the lines with documents like this.
Sounds like you take the western account of history for granted, and don’t engage with different views. It sounds like youre taking Information by diametrically opposed forces at face value. I too would like topics like feminism explained by anti-feminists, anarchism by an anti-anarchist, Marxism by a lib etc. I definitely never engage with what the other side says
You used this document as evidence to support your argument. Of course the credibility and validity of the document is a subject for discussion.
Also It’s not good evidence, but a valueable piece of a larger puzzle, where one understands the dynamics of political economy and has to piece it together through these. If you’d read any theory at all, you know history is always written by the dominant class and one has to read through the lines with documents like this.
We have no idea who actually wrote this document. Just further pointing out how useless it really is. And believe me I’d be really interested to know the backstory of the document from a historical pov.
What’s the background for this report, who compiled it, what the sources were and so on?
It sounds pretty dubious since it has big ass text at the start saying
It’s a top secret report created by the informational gathering apparatus of a global super power/nation state, with all the interest to get an accurate picture of their geopolitical rival, but also with the interest to keep their population not in the know (not it’s like the only time in US history). The fact that it fits with other historical accounts of Stalin by e.g Domenico Losurdo.
Funny how you libs always pull out skepticism when it’s against the western narrative. Even if it’s unvaluated, it’s not going to be significantly off. The CIA is pretty good at what they do
Can you point to any of CIA’s metainfo about this file? Since I don’t think we have anything more than this is some CIA file, but no info about who compiled this info, what they base it on, how has it been evalued (other than at the time it was apparently unevalued) and so on. You don’t even know what the CIA thought of this document. We just know they have it.
Do we just take it as true because it’s from CIA, even though we have no other information about it or what?
I mean are you against being sceptical of some random ass CIA document with big ass text on top of it about it being “unevaluated information”? Say it ain’t so.
I believe this is the page you’re looking for. It’s very minimal. https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/document/cia-rdp80-00810a006000360009-0
Might as well ask Snowden or a top ranking official
Why do you think they host it?
Do you even know what bias is?
It doesn’t sound like you have any of the info that would make this a credible document. CIA hosts a shitload of documents and a lot of them are absolute bunk and directly contradictory. They’ve collected a lot of reports over all the decades they’ve been around, that’s sorta their job and then they evaluate that information and based on that try to sus out the true information. Unfortunately we have no idea what the CIA itself thought of this info, at the time of release they haven’t evalued it. It’s almost like finding a book in a library and believing it to be credible because it’s a well known library that has that book.
Let me ask it this way: what makes you think that this report is credible, factual and trustworthy?
I already answered above. It fits into the picture of historical accounts of Stalin and of how bias and interests work in regards to a nation state and it’s geopolitical competitors.
You’re convently ignoring the context in which this document exists and how its content relates to it.
Your try at abstracting something this complex fails. It’s more akin having two libraries with two different accounts of history where some books are deliberately hidden (for various reasons, it exists and wasn’t destroyed). This is a now a made-public book confirming the other libraries accunt history with their own source
Also:
It sounds like you consider this document good evidence because it already aligns with what you believe in and not on the merits of how the information was gathered, how it was verified or any sort of other merits you’d usually evaluate such information when you want to use it as evidence.
And I don’t think CIA was sloppy. But this again hasn’t been even evalued by them, as it says on big bold letters right at the start. We have no idea what CIA actually thought of this document since we have basically no info on it. Sorry to say.
We’re discussing the account of Stalin and collective leadership vs top down and not the validity of this document. Good try on moving the goal post.
Also It’s not good evidence, but a valueable piece of a larger puzzle, where one understands the dynamics of political economy and has to piece it together through these. If you’d read any theory at all, you know history is always written by the dominant class and one has to read through the lines with documents like this.
Sounds like you take the western account of history for granted, and don’t engage with different views. It sounds like youre taking Information by diametrically opposed forces at face value. I too would like topics like feminism explained by anti-feminists, anarchism by an anti-anarchist, Marxism by a lib etc. I definitely never engage with what the other side says
You used this document as evidence to support your argument. Of course the credibility and validity of the document is a subject for discussion.
We have no idea who actually wrote this document. Just further pointing out how useless it really is. And believe me I’d be really interested to know the backstory of the document from a historical pov.