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I do think that history isn't nearly as hard on him as it should be. He is easily as bad as Pol Pot or Hitler. But my college roommate got the symbol of Stalin
by apostacy 8y ago
I do think that history isn't nearly as hard on him as it should be. He is easily as bad as Pol Pot or Hitler.
But my college roommate got the symbol of Stalin's state tattooed on him because he said it was cool and ironic. This disgusted our friend who's parent's escaped communist Poland, but nobody really cared. Of course, if he had got a swastika tattoo he would have essentially written himself out of society, however you are permitted to express admiration of communism without really getting in trouble.
- opnitro 8y agoYet this critique of ideological association never seems to come into play regarding the US's genocides in south America, or Britian's starvation of India.
- Koshkin 8y agoWell, anti-communism had nothing to do with those. Just as it hadn’t with the genocide of some Germanic tribes comitted by Caesar, for example.
- Koshkin 8y agoPower tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men... — Lord Acton “Good guy, bad guy”... Let’s grow up already, shall we?
- varjag 8y agoI know many Russians are disturbed by this, but character is a continuity and Stalin was right on the bottom of it.