Tell me why and give me a good reason other than me mentioning him hurts some side”s arguments. You can’t erase or dismiss how early 20th Century Western intellectuals ignored, naively unaware or were blissfully ignorant of his crimes and for that, I hammer them hard and often. Because their generation supported at least the ideals of what they idiotically believed the classless, stateless anarchic-communist society USSR brutally aspired to be (where belief in God and religion itself was seen as ridiculous, asinine bullshirt and outlawed, too) and didn’t admit too until decades later, long after his death.
And it’s not just Stalin, either. Mao’s domestic policies led to widespread famine, starvation, malnutrition, millions of deaths with the Great Leap Forward, endorsed, condoned mob violence with the Cultural Revolution. I say these things because I do sincerely believe their are some on the left, mostly the far left, that still romanticize these idiots beliefs, principles, and would blindly execute these despots commands and orders today.
If I can avoid politically-themed threads like these or they turn out like this, I’ll try my best and to meet you halfway, and not mention the Bloody Red Czar who had his Kremlin psychiatrist murdered not too long after he diagnosed him as a paranoid, malignant narcissist with megalomaniacal tendencies.