Trying to create a healthy NSFW[1] community on Lemmy:
[1] We’re talking about porn. not gore.
[2] This basically means the American and European democracies.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Stalin
Born to a poor ethnic Georgian family in the town of Gori […], Stalin joined the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party […] and raised funds for Vladimir Lenin’s Bolshevik faction via robberies, kidnappings and protection rackets.
Local thugs/mafia-leaders raising to power in Russia/USSR is not a new thing.
Maybe. But we were talking about Stalin here.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism