cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/206113
Okay so I was wondering why Stalin got the most flack of the Cold War propaganda, at least in my experience growing up in the U.S., He’s the only Soviet Leader we were “taught” about. Sorry if this is dumb.
While a lot of his success probably contribute to it, my guess is that he is in power at the time of both the last famine and the power struggle, both of which are easy to spin as him somehow being the bad guy.