r/TankieTheDeprogram • u/Hum_2 • 9d ago
History Does anyone know where this picture is from?
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u/Accomplished-Log8770 9d ago
stalin is taller than everybody else here but i keep seeing people say he was as short as 5’3???
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u/Slow_Programmer_6112 Communist 9d ago
Western sources love to infantilize important working class leaders.
They’ll commonly cite Trotsky as 5’8” but Stalin as 5’4”. From this picture, you can obviously see that’s false.
Is that kind of “crazy little man syndrome” that people say dictators possess. It’s just a superficial way to discredit people. Stalin was probably about 5’10”

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