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Why has Stalin been so propagandized?
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https:// www. cia . gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP80-00810A006000360009-0.pdf
Most Americans have no idea how the Soviet Union operated and if they knew it would seem like a much better system than US representative democracy. A generic feature of Orientalist racism is the idea that Asiatic cultures are inherently drones being controlled by despots, something we see with every other negatively-stereotyped Asian country and portrayed in every sphere of life from their workplace to their families and politics. Russia is regarded as more Asian than European by the white supremacists pushing that propaganda. The west reinforced it because it can't forgive Stalin for ending the holocaust or building a rival superpower out of the country everyone else was trying to destroy, nor could they compete with a society that invests in its citizens and says the poor can become scientists. It purely exists to rob the basic idea of autonomy from anyone who isn't white.
now, talking seriously, orientalism doesn't apply only to asians, it is for everyone in the third world, because it works with only two categories, the west and "the rest".
when the cuba revolution happened, fidel appeared on forbes as the most wealthy person in the world, following the orientalist script that leaders have a ridiculously ostentatious lifestyle they simply put cuba gdp as fidel's net worth.
cia stands for communism in america, thus invalid tankie source. /s
WTF I love the CIA now