Tankies don’t usually believe that Stalin or Mao “did nothing wrong,” although many do use that phrase for effect (this is the internet, remember). We believe that Stalin and Mao were committed socialists who, despite their mistakes, did much more for humanity than most of the…
A fun quote from a letter Franklin wrote to a doctor that is cited in Losurdo's Liberalism:
So not something he did, but more a look into his frame of mind. He really didn't care for the poor.