It’s honestly so strange that people can come so far in realizing the propaganda surrounding Marx, Lenin, and Engels is absurd yet unquestioningly believe everything they were told about Stalin. Do these people on the collapse sub think the oil company tycoons and imperialists won’t have to be redacted or gulaged?
I think the insistence that Stalin and the USSR were cartoonishly villainous is a method of avoiding introspection as a westerner. Because if they weren’t evil, then what does that say about the cold war? What does that say about us? And what of the countries we’ve toppled, the people we’ve killed, and the people we continue to kill?
It’s easier for many people to just go along with the liberals on this one because the implications are too much.