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“I don’t think Stalin is someone to be looked up to”
“REEEEEEEEEE”
Stalin is a flawed figure, but goddamn did he kill some Nazis
Murdering your own people = "flawed"? He was a monster. Him helping to defeat a different monster doesn't change that.
I see someone hasn't done the reading.
Start with an easy one, work your way up to the 19th century theory.
Source: Welsh Underground Network https://share.google/hhOibo9wTsGbvooLi
What part of this book which both confirms and agrees there were many politically motivated murders/imprisonments (even if it argues they were fewer than other sources claim) makes Stalin not a monster? It's arguing over the scale of the bad shit he did, not whether he did it or not. Holy shit.
Stalin is not a monster because monsters aren’t real.
The scale of bad shit he did you got from lifelong exposure to anti-communist propaganda. This misinformation isn’t neutral. It has a clear goal, and billions of dollars behind it over the last 100+ years, because the capitalist class fears nothing more than communism, because to date it’s been the only successful alternative to capitalism.
Your own source said he murdered a ton of people. That's a bad person, regardless of the economic system the country they lead used. Why is that such a hard thing to grasp?
If you want to promote communism, don't use a goddamn mass murderer to market it.
I didn’t provide any sources.