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I don't know why you're insisting people who don't like lemmygrad are anti-communists. Not all communists are pro-stalin tankies.
And not all liberals are pro war advocates... but some are.
Just because they like him, doesn't mean they admire everything he did. The idea behind the USSR, yes, not the war crimes he commited. And there are war crimes on both sides of the fence, not just on Stalin's side, yet they go unrecognized in history. If we villanize, let's villanize both sides, not just one.
Sure! Fuck all war criminals, including the ones you seem to like defending. Listen, maybe people defederated lemmygrad because they "hate communists", or maybe they fully understand their position, and find it objectionable on its own merits. I would, unambiguously, never say I liked a war criminal. If I found out somebody was a war criminal, I would stop liking them. I don't want to be around people who like war criminals, either. To me, that either means they don't know about the war crimes, or they're kinda okay with the war crimes, and either option is bad.
That was your experience. Not everyone else's. My country had a dictatorship not too long ago, and believe me when I say this: We didn't flood the streets with our cries of peace for no reason.