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To be honest, I do not understand, why people try to judge quotes by its authors. If Adolf Hitler once said that Erarth is round, the authorship doesn't make this quote automatically false. Even bloody dictators can say sometimes something truly, whats the problem here?
Okay but Stalin mostly walked the walk. 7 good fingers 3 rotten fingers and all that.
The problem is that people take quotes like this as an excuse to slippery-slope into loving everything else Stalin did too. Why, I couldn't say. It's pretty fucking obvious that Stalin and Mao and Mussolini and etc. were horrible people but yet we still have people in the modern day tripping over themselves to suck off dictators that died a century ago.