Patriotism is just a nice word people invented to be proud of their genocidal and colonialist country without feeling too bad about it.

Research done by people whose purpose wasn’t to produce red-scare propaganda (I don’t know how I could have worded that better, I’m not a native speaker)

Basically, I live in a country where the communist party used to be very powerful. Red scare has been a thing here, but leftism was strong in the country, and lots of historians here have published good quality researches about the USSR

Fun fact though: our “”“communist”“” party is now between centrism and neoliberalism. Their alliance with the socialist party destroyed anything it had to do with communism

Yes, the US has red scare propaganda.

Historians exist outside of the US, though. We have decades and decades of non-US, non communist-scare historical research to know what the USSR and Stalin did. If you don’t want to recognise the errors of the past, you will repeat them. If the most you can do is aim for Stalin’s USSR but 2025 version, then you’re as much an enemy of the people than capitalists are.

If you feel antagonised when someone criticise Stalin then that’s a you problem though.

Staline’s Image Cult isn’t “imperialist propaganda”