Something to make people think about it while they try to solve the cognitive dissonance, or to Atleast make them view it more than a simple totalitarian state where everything was bad and even the grass was white
Something to make people think about it while they try to solve the cognitive dissonance, or to Atleast make them view it more than a simple totalitarian state where everything was bad and even the grass was white
I don’t think humanizing Stalin is an especially urgent matter, but he’s got some good interviews with western writers:
https://redsails.org/stalin-and-ludwig/
https://redsails.org/stalin-and-wells/
Stalin has a reputation as a kind of brutish, simple man. But in the HG Wells interview he comes across as walking in circles around the interviewer.
Stalin even characterized himself as rather simple, and it’s true that he had quite a harsh tone and took brutal actions unapologetically, but he was definitely still a smart guy.
Get yourself a man who can do both.