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It baffles me how this guy became an icon.
Here's a short video if anyone wants to learn about him
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQF6-Lyb5QU
Symbols are easier than actual people. Nobody is just one thing, and complexity doesn't travel well. Revolutionaries are either lionized or demonized, and so it becomes easier for the critics to ignore valid points while simultaneously being easier for the supporters to ignore atrocities. Rather than an objective, complete understanding of the man, you get polarized factions that don't see each other as people.
I’m sure the fact that he was really hot had a lot to do with it. The guy was very nice to look at, and that worked very well in the use of widespread visual propaganda.
Same with Stalin. Did you know young Stalin looked like this?
Yeah…
I'm a straight guy and even I can tell he's a handsome bloke.
I had a similar thought about Snowden and Assange. Both those guys look like movie stars.
Bro couldnt grow a beard if his life depended on it but i guess you're correct. Also he fought for communism which is at its base a nice idea. Too bad it has to be forced and always be supervised by central authocratic governments which tend to give no fucks about human rights.
Would it be discrimination to not kill someone only because they have one of those traits?
Latin American hangs out with Westerner is the usual path.
Remember when the CIA funded schools to teach Right Wing Death Squads and they put in a bunch of rightwing dictators in because they're scared of communism having a turn?
History is hilarious. The School of the Americas. Life, Liberty, and teaching massacres 101:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Hemisphere_Institute_for_Security_Cooperation#Criticism
Huh, al Nursa is in charge of Syria. The people are rioting, despite al nursa front man collaborating with Zionist death squads.
I'll see that and raise you someone who doesn't have a ton of videos titled "you won't BELIEVE how awful this communist group was!": https://youtu.be/sB5-yxDrDQk
Genocide denial never was and never will be cool.