The book is called ‘Stalin: Russia’s man of steel by marrin’ I decided to open it to a random page and this is what I found

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    He hated him as a Jew

    A textbook example of bad lib grammar, which makes it unclear whether

    1. Stalin hated Trotsky because Trotsky was Jewish, or
    2. Stalin hated Trotsky because he (Stalin) was Jewish.

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      It plays that card perfectly though imo. If can mean exactly whatever you need it to mean so you can hate Stalin. If the reader is a Fascist this plays into “Jews bad” narrative. If the reader is a lib it plays into the “Stalin was as bad at Hitler” bullshit.

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      You see, when Stalin was a Jew he hated Trotsky, but since he converted they he fell in love