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That is cold war / anti-communist propaganda, which capitalists and the media that they own will never stop propagating, because capitalists are definitionally anti-communist.
Declassified CIA report:
Second Thought: We Need To Talk About "Authoritarianism"
(Sorry for the stupid question, I only know what I've been taught in school.)
If it wasn't authoritarian or a dictatorship, why'd they build those absolutely giant statues? Just a democratic flex?
Why did “they” build Mt. Rushmore or the Lincoln Memorial?
I'm afraid I don't know. The people under Stalin's rule, obviously.
You are still speaking from the cold war framing of Stalin being a dictator and not an elected official who tried to step down multiple times.
That's one weird situation