question for the oldhead users but was anticommunist propaganda always like this? just straight up slop and a fairytales based on pop culture depictions of old propaganda loosely based off real events? Even most serious liberal historians would look at your typical Mao ze stalin lenin killed a gajilion peasants as great man theory. iirc even Stephen Kotkin lsays holodomor wasn't some wicked plan made up personally by Stalin because those Ukrainians are just to speshul and individualistic. Didn't they at least have shit like the calculation problem and muh huemon nature back in the day? at least those are something that kind of resembles a systemic critique instead of what amounts to a grimms fairy tale abt how everything outside the western bloc is liek witterary 1984 guise so nevar question capitalism ogey. Maybe thats why they teach social studies instead of history in burgerland now cuz even a cursory understanding of the early modern period to now along with a brief section on why great man theory is hot dogshit would cause a decent amount of the USian superstructure to fall apart.
>>2358303>>2359474my advice for OP is prepare there own sources and then just ask whoevers making these kind of claims for theres, in my experience one of two things will happen
>they dont have any sources at and you can just point out how they're regurgitating anti-communist slop they don't even understand or know the origin of >they do have sources and there either mainstream lib historians or the occasional reactioid(this usually happens if falun daifa or the ukraine is involved). If reactoid just shit on em for spreading around fascist propaganda if lib its more of a case by case basis>they become legit upset at the idea that someone might actually ask them to back up there claims with evidence and provide no source, if this is the case just mock them as they are probably a /pol/yp