• eldavi@lemmy.ml
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      13 hours ago

      the official stance of the CPC is that he made a lot of mistakes

      learning that that the russians acknowledged the full horrifying extent of stalin’s cult of personality in school text books was the first time i realized i had been fooled by propaganda.

      up until them i had assumed that they would white wash it like my own school text books did regarding the pogroms/ethnic-cleansings of native-americans/mexicans/black-people/etc. and my assumptions were later reassured by the knowledge the that german and japanese students get similar “education” but my russian lab partner in college translated outloud horrifying descriptions from his school text book on his laptop to me.

      i was also struck by how similar they were to the descriptions of the few survivors from the native american pogroms and when i asked him why they would teach this to children; he told me that the popular consensus was that it was important not to sugar coat it for society’s sake.

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        11 hours ago

        learning that that the russians acknowledged the full horrifying extent of stalin’s cult of personality in school text books was the first time i realized i had been fooled by propaganda.

        Just wait until you learn that he didn’t have one and all that shit was made up by kruschev to consolidate power lmao

    • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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      2 days ago

      Yep, people rarely seek truth from facts and as a consequence seek to convert the ideas of their perceived enemies into irrational, self-contradicting falsehoods. It’s the easiest way to dismiss Marxism-Leninism.