Anonymous (ID: zKOscRAN)
02/28/26(Sat)19:02:17 No.529466493

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Anonymous (ID: zKOscRAN) 02/28/26(Sat)19:02:17 No.529466493

Dictators like Hitler, Mao and Stalin should be remembered as weak and pathetic, rather than fearsome, leaders.
The more I've read about history (which is hardly to academic levels), the more I've noticed there is a wide gulf between how we view Hitler, Mao, Stalin etc, and how they really were.

We seem to continuously fall into this Nietzschean 'strong man' fallacy, where we think of Hitler exactly the way he would want to be remembered: A powerful fascist leader.

In actual fact Hitler was a failed artist, who's adolescent anger happened to attach itself to a political movement. As he aged he developed perhaps the worst IBS the world has ever known, famous for clearing the room with his farts (seriousl, look it up). He ended up so jacked up on drugs and painkillers he was just making decisions almost at random by the end of the war. Ultimately he died a deluded failure, with bad bowl movements, with the blood of millions on his incompetent hands.

Stalin was nothing more than a gutter thug, who largely by accident found himself at the apex of the communist revolution. Only by being a nasty little shit did he take the top spot, and much like Hitler spent his life a paranoid and incompetent dictator.

Mao was a chubby mummy's boy, whos poor record keeping, and bad management, in addition to his anger issues led to the deaths of tens of millions. These aren't evil geniuses, they're morons, who's stupidity and flaws led to countless deaths.