Personally I’ve find you have to do this stuff gradually.
If you start off coming to bat for Stalin, the DPRK, etc. they’ll just plug their ears so you gotta start small and ease them into it. First by sowing doubt in capitalism/liberalism, then by exposure to socialist theory, then by exposure to how reactionaries control the narrative & debunking their propaganda methods & tactics, and finally my talking about the “controversial” stuff like the Holodomor, the KGB, the Stasi, the Cultural Revolution, Tiananmen Square, Hong Kong, and other things libs have kneejerk responses to.
This is basically how I was converted. In less than 3 years I went from hoping Kim Jong-Un was overthrown to hoping I live long enough to see the end of the US occupation of the Korean peninsula.
Personally I’ve find you have to do this stuff gradually.
If you start off coming to bat for Stalin, the DPRK, etc. they’ll just plug their ears so you gotta start small and ease them into it. First by sowing doubt in capitalism/liberalism, then by exposure to socialist theory, then by exposure to how reactionaries control the narrative & debunking their propaganda methods & tactics, and finally my talking about the “controversial” stuff like the Holodomor, the KGB, the Stasi, the Cultural Revolution, Tiananmen Square, Hong Kong, and other things libs have kneejerk responses to.
This is basically how I was converted. In less than 3 years I went from hoping Kim Jong-Un was overthrown to hoping I live long enough to see the end of the US occupation of the Korean peninsula.