There's WW2 documentaries where they make Stalin out ti be this guy with a boy crush on Hitler when they made their little agreement to not go to war with each other. Who then gets all dumbfounded and depressed when Hitler attacks Russia anyway. They then gloss over all Russias exploits in the war and make it sound like they were getting their asses kicked the entire war.

Literally they looked at a political compass, that's literally all of the knowledge informing that opinion. Maybe they read a comment about "horseshoe theory" one time. These people are politically illiterate.

I found it here:

"If you could get Hitler and Stalin to sit down together and avoid economics, the two diehard authoritarians would find plenty of common ground."

https://www.politicalcompass.org/analysis2