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When Species Names Are Offensive, Should They Be Changed? (e360.yale.edu)

submitted 10 months ago by alyaza@beehaw.org to c/humanities@beehaw.org

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[–] interolivary@beehaw.org 7 points 10 months ago

So not great but much better than Stalin

Although admittledly "better than Stalin" isn't exactly a high bar, considering how spectacularly awful of a person he was. Some level of "excess brutality" is pretty much expected when it comes to Russia and Russian leaders, and Lenin doesn't stand out particularly much in that regard, and he wasn't a sadistic psychopath like Stalin and did genuinely seem to want to bring about a better society for everyone, instead of what they got after Stalin was through.