Is it simply over-correcting in response to western anti-communist propaganda? I’d like to think it’s simply memeing for memes sake, but it feels too genuine.

    • foodandart@lemmy.zip
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      1 day ago

      Off the top of my head, no. (It’s been decades since I’ve thought about any of this, TBH…)

      What you can do is branch out and read up on the people he had around him in government, like the Deputy Chair of the Soviet secret police, Lavrentiy Beria. (Now that’s a dark hole to look in to, he was feared more than Stalin.)

      Stalin was a thug at heart. Angry and conniving, but surrounded himself with even worse people. (Gee, who can we see as a mirror of that today? Yikes…)

      Who he chose to do his bidding, that’s where the full scope of the horror of Stalin can be found.

      • onoira [they/them]@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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        1 day ago

        you mean the podcast hosted by Robert Evans, the anarchist who writes for Bellingcat which is funded by the anticommunist National Endowment for Democracy which is currently run by former Bush staffers and is a literal CIA front?

        In 1986, NED’s President Carl Gershman said that the NED was created because “It would be terrible for democratic groups around the world to be seen as subsidized by the CIA. We saw that in the 1960s and that’s why it has been discontinued”.

        In a 1991 interview with the Washington Post, NED founder Allen Weinstein said: “A lot of what we do today was done covertly 25 years ago by the CIA.”

        that ‘anarchist’, who likes to talk over his guests, and his takes on countries outside the US repeatedly mirror the State Department?

        as an anarchist, i do wonder if the antistatist who is funded by an anticommunist US government organisation might have a bias…