You don't even have a clue what the official party stance was, do you? Stalin labeled Crimean Tatars as traitors and Nazi sympathizers, forcefully removed them and gave their farms to Soviet workers.
Dude Stalin helped the nazis take Poland, then when Hitler turned on the USSR, he threw 20 million soviets into the meat grinder. All to have Eisenhower coax a Nazi surrender, which made Stalin super butthurt and demand a new surrender the next day.
The soviets were responsible for 3/4 German military deaths. They kicked ass. Stalin did not.
I think vzq's point is that you can write good, readable code that doesn't do what the user wants. Same with other metrics that are ripe for navel-gazing like code coverage.
It's bordering on a false dichotomy... but I also believe that dynamic, untyped languages have proven exceptionally useful for rapid prototyping and iteration.
Yeah when you help the Nazis invade Poland, that's an alliance.
In before "well akshually helping the Nazis was a good thing because the polish were the real Nazis" tankie apologia