…because I’ll never be him

    • Muad'Dibber@lemmygrad.mlM
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      Everything you’ve learned about Stalin is false, there is a real man behind the thick cloud of cold-war anti-communist propaganda.

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      He led the USSR as life expectancy shot up along with industry and food production. He was also the leader as the Red army defeated the Nazis.

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      i had a long reply that i accidentally deleted but conveniently this book about Stalin just came out that should give you an infinitely more nuanced “history and critique” of Stalin than the average westerner could imagine exists.

      TL;DR Stalin is a complicated figure, just like everyone else. The cartoon villain picture of Stalin that western propagandists have been building for almost a full century now isn’t real, no one likes the “eastern hitler” caricature that doesn’t exist. We like Josif Stalin, the real person who existed, did great things, did bad things. a lot of what you think you know is simply false, and to understand why we “like” Stalin, you have to learn who Stalin really was, and find out what you think you know about him, the Soviet Union, and communism as a whole, that is just plain wrong.

      sorry about the downvotes and dunking that are going to come to you, some folks around here have trouble distinguishing genuine questions and bad faith trolls.

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      wait, are you unironically gonna talk smack about the liberator of Auschwitz? if so why

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      Yes, they are goofy as hell. There are a bunch of other leftist leaders to celebrate, idk why the worst one is stanned.