there are a lot of real quotes from communists that are good takes, but sound ominous to people already primed to dislike the person saying it, and I thought this was one of those situations

like when I saw a conservative chud quote Mao's "political power grows from the barrel of a gun" to show that Mao was a bad dude

even though that's almost the same as the reasoning behind the US second amendment, something most US conservatives agree with, and if it was attributed to George Washington or some shit, they'd eat it up (new bit idea btw)

but it's actually a bit different here because they are explicitly agreeing with what Stalin allegedly said while still condemning him