Due to real-life connections some of my follows on Mastodon are local libs who keep boosting stuff like this into my timeline.
This here is an account with a huge following for Fedi standards and apparently also posts on X. Not much profile info, no banner but very reactionary. Looks to be posting like an authority on all things Russia.
This chain about Stalin is 15 posts long, I have no idea what is going on there as I am definitely not too well in the loop with the Ukraine - Russia thing, but this seems to be both anti-communist and very russophobic. Pretty sus yet the libs eat this up.
looks like they have receipts beyond the fake photoshop icon at the top, the argument an [amount] of people in Russia/former USSR have a religious veneration of Stalin is proven by the examples of actual iconography in the thread. of course this observation stops at
"hehe don't they know Stalin killed them???? 
" rather than striving to understand the apparent 'contradiction'. but that is typical of liberals. the atomic unit of propaganda is not lies, it's emphasis, and using this framing definitely gives the airs of making the ROC and its adherents out to be simple and foolish---confirming russophobic lib priors.