One of the most ridiculous lies I had ever heard about Joseph Stalin was that he shot a young child in a labor camp trying to carry a bucket of water.
1. Children were not allowed in gulags so holy shit misinformation-
And 2: The website that this came from was a British site and I don’t trust anything that can’t be traced back to trusted sources about the USSR
Id also like to note that the assignment I was researching Stalin for was an essay on rather Stalin was worse, or Adolf Hitler. I won an award for the essay I wrote saying that Stalin was worse because the things these unreliable sources were saying about him was fucking insane and I didn’t know any better at the time. And what’s even worse??? A majority of the class voted that STALIN WAS WORSE THAN FUCKING ADLOF HITLER.
….Guess who became a die-hard communist later that year.
This all happened in my freshman year of highschool btw.
