Stalin doubled literacy in the Soviet Union, even as he murdered tens of millions of people. Apologists for dictatorship - Cuba, Russia, Saudi Arabia - always say "they do some bad things, and some good things." It's a way of making them seem just like us. It's utterly wrong.

Stalin doubled literacy in the Soviet Union, even as he murdered tens of millions of people.

Apologists for dictatorship - Cuba, Russia, Saudi Arabia - always say "they do some bad things, and some good things." It's a way of making them seem just like us. It's utterly wrong. https://t.co/w3V1ZBb8cu

— Tom Malinowski (@Malinowski) February 26, 2020