More Words, Deeper Hole

The idea that Stalin

...died in '52, the year before any of the uprisings you're talking about happened.

In fact, the person you're arguing with probably assumed, like me, that your reference to a bunch of krushchev era uprising-crushings meant that you were implying they were representative of the core foreign policy approach of the de-stalinisation "liberals" Krushchev was leading, rather than something forced on them politically by their opponents from stalin's cult of personality in the the soviet heirarchy – they're arguing that without that clear and immediate external threat from western europe, the stalinists would have been politically weaker and the de-stalinisers better able to not give a fuck about the prague spring or elsewhere because even if they went capitalist, they'd be completely surrounded.