-and that Hollywood which still (rightfully) paints Nazis as villians never has a badword even for the likes of Stalin or Lenin---
Ed Asner claims that Joe Stalin was not that bad a guy; he's just gotten a bum-rap from history.
“....and that Hollywood which still (rightfully) paints Nazis as villians never has a badword even for the likes of Stalin or Lenin-—”
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You must keep in mind that the West (and this includes the US) was cozily in bed with communism (Stalin) in order to defeat Hitler. Democracy and communism became reluctant partners in the fight against Naziism.
Read your history and you’ll learn that Churchill sold Eastern Europe out to Stalin in a private meeting not attended by Truman.