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College is going great, been doing more sport than ever and just joined a new 6s team, life is good.

A couple of seasons ago I got really put down by losing games and burned out from tf2 pretty quickly. I strongly advise against putting up with it until it's over because it will have a terrible affect on your mood and might make you more depressive or toxic.

If it's severe enough to impacting your real life and causing you depressive episodes, tell your team leader that you can't keep playing because you're demotivated. I think that it would really help if you could spend some time on sub or inactive on your roster so that you can take a break from things and do more things that you are enjoying until you feel ready for tf2 again.

So overall, take some time off from tf2, go and do some other things that cheer you up or make you happy and talk to people if it becomes that big of a problem.

I hope that you get this fixed man, have a good one ^^

Marxist brought up a lot of strong and developed points, IMO they should be more than enough to catch your average college grunt off guard. +1

I don't know what experience you have with debating but contextually this should be a pretty difficult case to argue.

I'll separate this into 3 categories:
The likely focuses of their arguments.
The best way to refute their arguments.
The best focuses for your arguments.

There is a lot of dirt on Stalin so if you really want to win this then you're probably going to have to think outside of the box for this one, this should become apparent later.

The likely focuses of their arguments:

You know for certain that they are going to mention Stalin's multitude of human rights violations and honestly there are too many to list so you're on your own there, i'll name a couple of examples just to give you an idea of what the opposition will probably bring up: (Using CTRL + F on the pages and typing Stalin will help you find the bits you need!)

Pre War:

Ordering the political assassination of Leon Trotsky - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Trotsky

During War:

Executing Polish Army Officials - (This is disputed but i'm sure there is evidence somewhere)

His ordering of 'Order No. 227' - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_No._227

Post War:

Expansion of Communist states into the West - (Should be able to find a source yourself)

Faking elections in the USSR and in the satellite states - (Should be able to find a source yourself)

Universal (Throughout multiple/ all time periods or simply doesn't apply):

The expansion of the GULAG system - http://gulaghistory.org/nps/onlineexhibit/stalin/

Mass genocide of political opponents and undesirables - (Can't really be disputed given Stalin's kill count)

There were simply better Russian leaders - (Be creative when picking leaders, i'm not an expert in Russian history)

Like the subtitle said, these are the ones which I think are most likely, they might bring something else up like the winter war or something else so it's best that you keep doing some research.

The best way to refute their arguments.

It's probably best that you don't try to justify Stalin's actions as if they were for a political cause or something along those lines, instead you should try to focus the argument on the necessity of him doing so.

Before you start, you need to know that the situation that Stalin was in was essentially the same as Hitler's situation, he was an expansionist dictator leading a politically unstable country which had lost a lot of land, this was a result of: Finland, All of the Baltic states and Poland becoming independent during the Reds Vs Whites civil war.

Since the opposition is going to argue about his expansionist and ruthless aspect, you really need to nail arguing against that point, a few ideas I have are:

The political climate of the early-mid 1900's was VERY different to the political climate now, politics generally revolved around democracy, fascism, communism or neutrality, therefore the proportions were incredibly distorted and given the large population of the USSR, the only way that it could stay together without breaking into civil war was through strict and intense regulation.

Stalin proposed very little legislation and ironically often left it to his subordinates to do their own thing or simply expanded on the creations of Lenin, such as the formation of the NKVD, the GULAG system and several other events, regardless of this though there is overwhelming proof that Stalin was at least involved in a lot of the soviet attrocities so you are going to need to work some way around that.

These are only my ideas, admittedly they are quite poor and you could probably think of something better after doing some research.

The best focuses of your arguments.

There are VERY few arguments supporting Stalin, so you really need to develop these arguments if you want them to hold some ground in the debate.

He oversaw the halt of the German blitzkrieg around 1941-1942, good luck justifying the battle of Stalingrad though.

He assaulted Berlin and essentially ended the war, same as above, there is little you can do to justify the means he used to achieve this so think outside the box.

He rapidly modernised the USSR, be careful when using this argument though because a lot of the industry gained after WW2 was actually taken from communist satellite states such as Hungary.

He, as the leader of a major world country underwent several depressions and famines but retained control of the country through this time period until he would die and Khrushchev would take over.

Hopefully this isn't too much of a nerd essay, my advice probably isn't the best but i've done a lot of work on Stalin in my GCSE's and quite a bit in my current A-levels too, so I hope I might at least offer some inspiration, best of luck!

That grand final was by far one of the most thrilling games of CS that I have seen in a long time, it was close, gruelling and passionate which is exactly what you want to see from a major final.

Congratulations to C9 for winning a well deserved major nonetheless, as well as a very good effort from Faze too.

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this grand finals so far:

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TIDE PODS HAHA XD

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watching majors for the drops DansGame

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