I think the issue with communism is that no one ever really tried to build it without totalitarism.
In theory there should be a period of socialism (communism lite, as KageKageKing said) where people realize and acknowledge it's benefits before going fully red. But every time someone got in power with socialist or communist ideals they were also dipshits as persons and became dictators.
Samething for fascism, every single fascist regime so far as also being a dictatorship despite that not being a pre-requisite.
Looking at fictional examples, in Starship Troopers the Earth is a fascist regime that holds real elections while still upholding and enforcing the same ideals of strengh/power and individual merit.
As a european I always found USA's reaction to the very word Communist to be hilarious.
I've seen the Communist Parties respectfully using the political system and was taught that the problem with the regimes of USSR and such were the fault of the men who became dictators not the ideals bythemselves. So we can disagree on it's merits and still inahbit the same space. You say Commie in the US and you get banned from the city, tied to a mule.
The Cold War was a bitch. Also Joseph McCarthy was an asshole.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCarthyism
True. But it's not like Nixon is a prize either.
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He looks wholesome. The way he gently strokes the grain does not make me question what he gets up to at all. You gotta figure the whole world was a simpler place to do propaganda in before everything could be snarked about online.
They do say that in betwenn all the wanton murder, paranoia and cruelty Stalin was a pretty fun guy. Atleast compared to the as murderous but less fun monsters who made up his inner circle.
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If i absolutely had to throw my propaganda baby at WW2 era despot i'd probably chuck it at Mussolini and hope for the best. Out of the lot he seemed like the most stable and least likely to kill people on a whim.
Personally i always thought Stalin was comparatively lacking in personal charisma compared to for instance Hitler or Mussolini. He got by on other merits, and built his mythos over time, but i reckon he came about more as a clever and patient opportunist than as a force of personality
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