Born to a poor ethnic Georgian family in the town of Gori [...], Stalin joined the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party [...] and raised funds for Vladimir Lenin's Bolshevik faction via robberies, kidnappings and protection rackets.

Local thugs/mafia-leaders raising to power in Russia/USSR is not a new thing.

[–] Stalins_Spoon@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeah, Western leaders are saints

[–] danieljackson@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Maybe. But we were talking about Stalin here.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism

[–] Stalins_Spoon@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 2 years ago

What you call 'whataboutism' we call 'double standards' or 'hypocrisy'