I swear to fucking God if I'm not a tankie yet I'm about to become one. The more I learn about Stalin, the more I am just fucking outraged at the lies I've been told about him my whole life. Most of it is literal Nazi propaganda that's been warmed-over for an American audience since the war. Knowing that I went for so long with that many brain worms in my head makes me feel absolutely disgusted and violated. Oh, and also, fuck you Khrushchev, even some of your lies made it all the way across the ocean and into my childhood brain.

Thank you to every person here and on the old sub who engages in honest criticism of a very complex historical figure about whom I don't know anything that I didn't hear from his enemies.