This is something I’ve noticed. It’s socially acceptable, in America, to say good things about Hitler: that he was a skilled politician, that he was good at public speaking, that he pulled Germany out of the depression, etc. You aren’t allowed any of that nuance when talking about Stalin. Even if you just mention a simple matter of historical record – such as the fact that Stalin industrialized Russia, or that his policies led to a massive increase in living standards within the Soviet Union – people get upset, and tell you no, it wasn’t true, he was actually an evil cartoon villain who ate babies for breakfast and puppy dogs for dinner. Communism is treated like some sort of absolute evil that only an idiot would believe in, while fascism is considered some sort of understandable mistake.
Yeah, people should be more “Oh my god, I was N@zi at one point, I was so cringe back then.”
This is something I’ve noticed. It’s socially acceptable, in America, to say good things about Hitler: that he was a skilled politician, that he was good at public speaking, that he pulled Germany out of the depression, etc. You aren’t allowed any of that nuance when talking about Stalin. Even if you just mention a simple matter of historical record – such as the fact that Stalin industrialized Russia, or that his policies led to a massive increase in living standards within the Soviet Union – people get upset, and tell you no, it wasn’t true, he was actually an evil cartoon villain who ate babies for breakfast and puppy dogs for dinner. Communism is treated like some sort of absolute evil that only an idiot would believe in, while fascism is considered some sort of understandable mistake.
Forgot to add this a while back, ahem:
Funnyabsolutely unsurprising how that works.