maybe some asshole peddling their " stalin bad" book, so they have to claim there's new shit that's come to light to so people see a reason to buy it.
Because business insider is essentially just a blogging platform at this point, they have a stupid number of people who have been given permission to post whatever they want. They're a lot like early buzzfeed with the auora of being more serious around them.
Because they were genuinely surprised to learn that Stalin and his lieutenants weren't cynical psychopaths peddling lies for their own aggrandizement but in fact genuinely believed in socialism, defending the revolution, and that sinister conspiracies seeking to destroy it existed behind every curtain.
establishment was getting very complacent before Bernie and some of the winds of History snuck through
