Data is Beautiful

"There's no rise of fascism, we're maxed out!"

It's eminently topical and (unlike corporate social media) not suppressed, so what did you expect?

I was going to remind of how good “filtered keywords” function is, but suddenly it struck me I shouldn’t have seen this post in the first place. Apparently, I saw it because my block list had a flaw.

For someone that was canny enough of a backstabbing tyrant to murder his way into leadership it's always struck as me as strange that Stalin was taken by surprise when Hitler betrayed their treaty.

Everyone but him knew it was coming. There's no way he couldn't have known, even if he thought it would happen later he shouldn't have been surprised. Hating socialism in general and Bolshevism in particular was like half of their thing.

With Slavic languages it’s never a simple word-based analysis - they’re highly inflected so you need to lemmatise text first which is a bit hit or miss when done automatically. I assume author of the graph did that manually for fascism because it’s a loanword and there’s less ambiguity to account for but it gets tedious quite fast if you really get into it. I got into it once in my mother tongue (Polish) and that rabbit hole goes really deep. Here’s a brief overview of how that process looks like.