--- Yoshie Furuhashi <critical.montages at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Sometimes, some leftists in the West develop a kind
> of conspiracy
> theory based on wishful thinking. They just can't
> admit that people
> they think they support, e.g., the Palestinians,
> sometimes support
> entities they don't support, e.g., Hamas.
True. It's not just leftists though, it's a type of universalism ("deep down, everybody really values the same things we do") common to most Western political discourse.
Many
> Russians, to this day,
> think Stalin is a greater leader than Lenin or
> Gorbachev and they
> apparently prefer Peter I and Alexander II to Stalin
> (cf.
>
<http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/2005/2005-January/000801.html>),
> to take
> just one example.
> --
Peter the Great is almost always at the top of those polls. Personally I think Alexander II doesn't get enough credit (he liberated the serfs, after all). Stalin's posthumous rep keeps going up and up while Lenin's goes down and down.
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