Marxist-Leninist (relatively novice) with an umbrella ☔

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  • Throughout all of the time that I’ve been online and offline, I have seen far more Hitler/Stalin comparisons and equivalences than I have seen actual, direct references to these events from the Eastern Front…ponder that for a moment.

    Such comparisons are a handy propaganda tool. Presenting Stalin as a bloodthirsty dictator just like Hitler and socialism/communism as “red fascism” has been normalised by decades of McCarthyism and the political Centre trying to justify its existence. Many people uncritically take those as a given, since the media have also normalised such views, incl. by giving less air time to actually leftist views.

    It is interesting to note how various history “documentaries” made in Western Europe also present Stalin as a dictator akin to Hitler, using what is considered an “objective” medium to misrepresent the deeds and intentions of historical figures, making them into mere caricatures.