No, the OOP was trying to say Stalin was mischaracterized as bad (which is false), not that he was generally mischaracterized (which, as you indicate, is true). You’re in the comment section of that post arguing with someone by saying “No, Stalin WAS mischaracterized” when all #1 was trying to say is that this fucker was responsible for the imprisonment and deaths of many, many groups of people

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So your argument here is just “it was actually a number of Soviet officials doing the ethnic cleansing, not just Stalin”?

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