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.
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.
It doesn’t, and it shouldn’t be taken as such. It’s just historicity.
Pretty much between 1914 and 1946/53 you have an impenetrable web of colonial empires colliding and crashing apart. There is very little purity to be found, so accuracy is about all you can rely on. Not knowing about Litvinov, (or Pilsudski, or the Phoney War, or whatever) is fine and normal.
Like, there are often counter/fingerpointing on this subject about Churchill being a pile of shit (and sure, super racist) but in this specific context we’re still in the Chamberlain era. Pointing that out is neither support for Chamberlain nor a judgement on Churchill.
And there’s plenty about Stalin-era USSR to complain about. Lysenkoism or Beria, for instance. It’s such a deeply complex subject that accuracy tends to be the most damning evidence.