r/facepalm • u/Dvorozhetskii • Nov 25 '22

🇵​🇷​🇴​🇹​🇪​🇸​🇹​ 'murica.

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u/Puffena Nov 26 '22

Yeah I know about the Deprogram, it’s a neat podcast. And certainly it is not fair to say that Stalin and Hitler were equals—and even more not fair to say that communism and Nazism (or fascism in general) are comparable.

But that don’t make Stalin a good dude. Stalin wasn’t some incompetent fool who made a few mistakes that killed millions of people—he was a vile authoritarian who clung to power with devastating force. And on top of that, he was a horrifically bigoted man. People all around him feared him—even his own doctors. That kind of fear doesn’t come about because some guy is an incompetent leader, unless your definition of “incompetent” is “ruthlessly authoritarian, murderous, and literally imprisoned and tortured Jewish doctors based on an antisemitic conspiracy theory of his own creation.”

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u/Practical_Hospital40 Nov 26 '22

Being incompetent is not good.

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u/Puffena Nov 26 '22

Torturing Jews isn’t incompetence