Stalin

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Stalin
“If you ever feel behind in life remember. That until he was 30. Joseph Stalin had accomplished nothing and…” (15 March 2026)
In the archive
Portal	Warlords & Empires
Posts	13
Retweets	449
Likes	4,994
First post	22 February 2018
Latest post	15 March 2026
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Stalin is a minor figure in the archive, with 13 posts, but one of them is among GritCult's most shared: a late-start story that uses his obscurity before 30 as proof that it is never too late. The rest treat Stalin as a historical marker for state violence.

Views

The 2026 post carries nearly all of the page's reach. Until he was 30, it says, Stalin had accomplished nothing and was a homeless thief who kept getting arrested, so “It's never over. It's never too late” ^[1]. It belongs to a family of late-start posts GritCult writes about very different men, and it borrows the early biography without comment on what Stalin went on to do. The lesson drawn is purely about timing.

Elsewhere Stalin stands in for the costs of power. Arguing that blaming religion for violence is “only 1st order reasoning”, he pointed out that the secularist Stalin “put many to the sword too”, and placed the cause in tribalism and human nature ^[2]. In 2021 he used Stalin's death as an analogy for the present: countries release prisoners at a regime change, and after Stalin died anyone who questioned the new regime “was sent to gulag”. The post ends “Deep state won. It’s over.” ^[3] In a 2018 reply he dismissed an opponent as unaware of “how power can be used to dictate lives”, warning that the proposal under debate “can lead to Stalinist results” ^[4].

Recurring themes

• Stalin as an unlikely late starter
• violence as tribal rather than religious
• regime change and the gulag
• Stalinism as a warning about systems of power

Notable post

The most retweeted GritCult post on the subject, with 436 retweets:

Selected posts

All 13 posts in the archive about Stalin, ranked by retweets. Select a column heading to sort.

Date	Retweets	Likes	Post	Media	Source
15 March 2026	436	4,918	If you ever feel behind in life remember. That until he was 30. Joseph Stalin had accomplished nothing and was yet just a homeless thief who kept getting arrested. It’s never over. It’s never too late.		View
3 May 2021	7	49	Countries usually release prisoners when there is a regime change. They did the same thing when Stalin died. Anyone who questioned the new regime was sent to gulag. Deep state won. It’s over.		View
22 February 2018	2	11	octopus once again returned to russia, but this time it was red. and communistic(communism+autistic) when USSR became imperialist n tried to overthrow other nations into following it politically, n align with its power. spain1936. stalin in america in 1938. spanish civil war era		View
10 June 2021	1	8	COUNTRIES USUALLY RELEASE PRISONERS WHEN THERE IS A REGIME CHANGE. THEY DID THE SAME THING WHEN STALIN DIED. ANYONE WHO QUESTIONED THE NEW REGIME WAS SENT TO GULAG. DEEP STATE WON. IT’S OVER.		View
28 July 2018	1	6	to blame merely religion is short sighted and it is only 1st order reasoning what is religion a symptom of ? its tribalism blame human nature and biology secularist communist stalin, put many to the sword too human nature is a meta explanation		View
23 August 2018	1	0	@ziege19 @jacobinmag In 1933, the Soviet government under Stalin recriminalised homosexuality. On 7 March 1934, Article 121 was added to the criminal code for the entire Soviet Union that expressly prohibited only male homosexuality, with up to five years of hard labour in prison		View
30 October 2018	1	0	i can call shrek a racist fascist ogre lord of the rings imperialist, wagnerian segregationist fascist propaganda see: The Last Ringbearer (entire book on the concept) star trek has been called fascist often confused with statist imperialist stalinism		View
8 June 2021	0	2	Hegelian anti Stalinist Lee kew yuan founder of the new Atlantis off of the coast of Western Africa		View
11 April 2018	0	0	@theonetruehurt if it is not goodie points, then why do some live better lives than others, and what happens to unspent "goodie points" ie stalin people who commit attrocities and live a long life. i like to think of it akin to sacrificing animals and astrology as means to explain the world		View
12 May 2018	0	0	@RubinReport death of stalin is a much better british film		View
11 October 2018	0	0	@EmilyGorcenski And no the matter is not as simple as this IYI makes out not just code but huge power enabling systems. Clearly unaware of Foucault how power can be used to dictate lives nor how this proposition can lead to Stalinist results. By using Stalinist rhetoric		View
30 October 2019	0	0	@lenaaoftroy @PunkSteppe Go back to stalingrad		View
26 March 2021	0	0	@jasmin_alicusic stalin practiced dysgenics		View

History

GritCult first posted about Stalin on 22 February 2018, and most recently on 15 March 2026. Across the archive the subject comes up 13 times, most often in 2018 (7 posts).

See also

Warlords & Empires portal

References

1. ^GRITCULT [@GRITCULT] (15 March 2026). until he was 30. Joseph Stalin had accomplished nothing and was yet just a homeless thief who kept getting arrested. It’s never over. It’s never too late. X.
2. ^GRITCULT [@GRITCULT] (28 July 2018). and it is only 1st order reasoning...secularist communist stalin, put many to the sword too. X.
3. ^GRITCULT [@GRITCULT] (3 May 2021). They did the same thing when Stalin died. Anyone who questioned the new regime was sent to gulag...Deep state won. It’s over. X.
4. ^GRITCULT [@GRITCULT] (11 October 2018). how power can be used to dictate lives nor how this proposition can lead to Stalinist results. X.

External links

• Posts about Stalin by GRITCULT on X
• Stalin on Wikipedia