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[–] FuckyWucky@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

"I know that after my death a pile of rubbish will be heaped on my grave, but the wind of History will sooner or later sweep it away without mercy."

-stalin-bummed

[–] ReadFanon@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Y'know, over on Lemmygrad, a lib interloper asked if this was a legitimate quote from the man of steel himself and I had to dig up a Russian-language book (there is no english translation afaik) and to stumble my way through the cyrillic to find the source for this.

[–] emizeko@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

did you find it? your question mark is throwing me off

[–] ReadFanon@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Whoops, sorry! Yep I did.

This quote is according to Molotov's recollection. From Сто сорок бесед с Молотовым (140 Conversations with Molotov) by Felix Chuev:

Stalin himself, I remember, said during the war: “I know that after my death, my grave will be piled with rubbish. But the winds of history will ruthlessly dispel it!

[–] polskilumalo@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Being able to read Cyrillic helps a lot, the text is similar enough to polish that I can fully understand it.

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[–] emizeko@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago (5 children)

there's a moment on the journey out of liberalism where you finally read Stalin's words and go, "wait, this is the guy they're saying all that wild shit about?"

https://redsails.org/stalin-and-ludwig/
https://redsails.org/stalin-and-wells/

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago

There's a reason they do everything in their power to convince people to avoid reading anything he actually wrote and forming their own opinion.

It's become even more imperative that they try and get people not to do that the longer their propaganda has gone on, because the moment a person does engage with him in a proper academic and mature way is the moment that it becomes clear how much is pure propaganda. This is deeply damaging to liberalism because it sets in light just how much should be questioned, it highlights the scale of it all.

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