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[–] Broc_Lia [S] 0 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago  (edited ago)

Hitler has been used as propaganda by the allied nations ever since world war 2. If they paint him as ultimate evil, then they, by comparison, must be ultimate good for (nearly) killing him.

Stalin, by comparison, was one of the allies, so he kinda gets a pass and a sort of goofy "Uncle Joe" treatment. Mao is irrelevant: The US never fought him. Most westerners don't really know anything about him other than "he was a communist, right? So that means he was all about improving conditions for workers.' There was even a line of cafes serving general east asian food named after him in my city. I genuinely don't think they realised what a shithead he was, but they took down the posters of his face after complaints.

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[–] HeavyBrain 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Well I have to admit I only started reading up about him after this before that I didnt know shit about him either.

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[–] Broc_Lia [S] 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

I read a book by Jung Chang about her experiences growing up, which was a bit of an eye opener, which lead to other books and, well, I really have to wonder why we had several chapters of our history book devoted to hitler and only a photograph/subtitle of mao saying he was the leader of china.

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[–] xxHikari ago 

Funny thing is when I lived in China, all of my friends thought he was great for China and made them prosper. Pretty sure they didn't teach them about the cultural revolution or anything like that. Otherwise, what else could you possibly think of that fuck?

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[–] Mylon ago 

Communism gets a lot of shit thanks to Mao. Really they were just more of the same oligarchs operating under a new label than anything actually resembling communism.

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[–] Broc_Lia [S] ago 

Well... this is the thing. If efforts to produce communism through socialism (like the USSR and PRC) end up producing oligarchy, then has it really been given a bad name? Or has it earned it?

Like... there are a few communist communities here and there which work ok, but I don't think any of them were created via a political campaign.