this post was submitted on 21 Aug 2023
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[–] SlowNPC@kbin.social 13 points 2 years ago

I wouldn't call seven million murdered corpses "rubbish," but I guess we already knew how much Stalin valued his people.

[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This is like the leftist equivalent of thinking Trump is a messiah.

[–] BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Trump built forced labour camps ?

[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

13th amendment provides for slavery, so he didn't have to. Being 'hard on crime' does the same thing ultimately.

[–] ZombieZookeeper@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

A whole lot of Russians currently think Stalin was an alright guy.

[–] Especially_the_lies@startrek.website 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

History teacher here. He is technically not wrong. Eventually, history will forget Stalin. It just won't be in my lifetime, or anytime in the next several hundred (thousand?) years.

I mean, humanity will go extinct eventually.

[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

In the meantime, thanks for teaching history.

Quick question, do gloomy people naturally want to become historians, or did it kind of happen as you learned more about humans?

Lol the more I learn about humanity, the worse it gets