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Liberals: “Stalin was a brutal dictator!” (lemmy.ml)

submitted 5 days ago by Confidant6198@lemmy.ml to c/memes@lemmygrad.ml

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/29149379

Source: https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP80-00810A006000360009-0.pdf

Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20210422203252/https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP80-00810A006000360009-0.pdf

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[–] June@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

They didn't admit that Stalin wasn't a dictator, though. That's what I'm getting at. The document makes no such claim and is itself just a report by an unevaluated anonymous source rather than an official statement by the organisation as a whole. In plenty of other declassified CIA documents (including official memos), it is argued in great length that Stalin was a dictator

If you want to argue that Stalin wasn't a dictator, then be my guest, but to claim that the CIA itself acknowledged this is a falsehood