ITT: People that did LITERALLY nothing wrong

>MAGA from the ash that the Persians left
>Create the most iconic city in history
>Inspire the greatest culture in history
>Foster democracy and meritocracy
>Deliver fantastic speeches, providing the base plate for Lincolns greatest speech
>Build the most beautiful building on the tallest hill in Athens
>Turn the Delian league into empire to defeat the scum bag PreIslamics
>Get knifed by autistic Spartans who side with Persians and ruin Greece forever all because he died of aids

He embodied the western world and yet most people don't know a thing about him. His quotes lines the supreme court, he made Athens the city that every westerner claims to be decedent from, and made Athens the prime Greek Polis.

>The fact that there were actually German Spies in the Soviet Union at the time doesn't validate the great purge.
That's where you're wrong, revisionist.

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>comparing McCarthy to Stalins purges

wew lad.

Im going to try and be fair, but both are right. The story I always heard growing up about how McCarthy was on this insane witch hunt and arresting innocent people is complete bullshit. There was a bunch of communist spies and he did catch them. But He also went to far with his actions against the Army.

Hollywood is just eternally butthurt about him because he #rekt a few of their guys who thought they would be cool if they flirted with communism and successfully vilified him.

>The thing is, it's entirely possible for their to be communist spies, AND be a drunken, self-promoting asshole about it

Very true. I'm no fan of McCarthy, I just think he is often unjustly demonized. Was he an alcoholic jackass? Yes, of course? You know who else was an alcoholic jackass? Winston Churchill. But we don't dismiss everything *he* ever said, now do we (unless you're the cute little blonde girl in my "Colonialism in Africa" class).

>The guy who accused communist regimes of employing the same tactics as McCarthy is exactly right. McCarthy was Stalin tier in his delusions.

Absolutely. But at the same time, he was often correct when he identified these people as potential traitors. His issue, more often than not, was how he went about dealing with them. America was virtually founded on the idea of a "loyal opposition", Thomas Jefferson was one of President Washington's most trusted friends/allies/advisers and he disagreed with Washington on practically everything.

>The fact that there were actually German Spies in the Soviet Union at the time doesn't validate the great purge.

It doesn't validate it from a moral standpoint, but think of it from the PoV of Josef "Stalin" Dugasvili, a Georgian who was brutally assaulted and crippled by Tsarist soldiers, and had seen firsthand what happens when the ruling elite ignores potential threats. IMO, the Great Purge, as misguided as it was, was ultimately important to Stalin's ability to control the USSR.

And I'm no commie by any stretch of the imagination (my great-grandfather spent 3 years in this LOVELY commie prison just outside of Havana for disagreeing with Saint Fidel), I just get why Stalin did what he did from a purely political standpoint.

>But we don't dismiss everything *he* ever said, now do we (unless you're the cute little blonde girl in my "Colonialism in Africa" class).
Nah, I'm a burnette, and I dismiss everything he says, because I'm an unrepentant Taig.

>And I'm no commie by any stretch of the imagination (my great-grandfather spent 3 years in this LOVELY commie prison just outside of Havana for disagreeing with Saint Fidel), I just get why Stalin did what he did from a purely political standpoint.
Oh I get that too. And similarly, I get it from McCarthy. But it's still a dumb idea, even from a realpolitik stance. For example, it's recently been uncovered that the Great Purge may have been the result of some Abwehr disinfo. They decided to have a triple agent accuse a bunch of Soviet Generals of being German Agents, and then Stalin actually killed them, the absolute madman.

>wew lad.
In their level of paranoia and detachment from reality? Absolutely.

In their extent and damage? Of course not. But that might have more to do with the American system and McCarthy's place in it then the content of his character. That's speculation.

But on the level of Paranoia "George C. Marshall was a communist spy from the beginnings of his career in the U.S. Army, who rose to the Chief of Staff, and then got appointed to be Secretary of State, so he could help the Chinese Communists win a war (that they were winning anyway), is looney toons crazy. It's absolutely as nutty as Stalin, and too nutty for the Kruschev era.

>Nah, I'm a burnette, and I dismiss everything he says, because I'm an unrepentant Taig.

Come on, Churchill wasn't all bad. Can't you admire his efforts to strengthen the US-UK relationship? Or the way he rallied the British people when it seemed like all hope was lost? Or even the sneaky way he invented the term "superpower" and tried to get Britain included in that defenition?

>For example, it's recently been uncovered that the Great Purge may have been the result of some Abwehr disinfo.

Damn, really? Do you have a source? I'm not trying to call you out, but that sounds amazing. Please, anything you've got-articles, books, videos-give links.

>They decided to have a triple agent accuse a bunch of Soviet Generals of being German Agents, and then Stalin actually killed them, the absolute madman.

Well, that's Stalin for you. Remember how he chased Trotsky all the way to Mexico, then had the NKVD murder the poor bastard with an icicle? The man was thorough and ruthless.

An absolutely brilliant thinker.

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LONG BOY

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>Can't you admire his efforts to strengthen the US-UK relationship?
Not really, because I'd like the UK to fuck off and die.

> Or the way he rallied the British people when it seemed like all hope was lost?
Not really, see above.

> Or even the sneaky way he invented the term "superpower" and tried to get Britain included in that defenition?
There's kind of a pattern here.

>Damn, really? Do you have a source?
Czechoslovakia Between Stalin and Hitler: The Diplomacy of Edvard Beneš in the 1930s, haven't read it, but found this tidbit digging through Wikipedia. Anyway, I remember only half the story. That USED to be the theory, based on Abwehr documents. When the Soviet Archives opened up, it turns out Stalin ordered the forgery, passed them to the Abwehr on the downlow. The Abwehr got excited and made sure they reached Stalin, hoping to kill off his generals. Stalin 'fell' for the Abwehr plot, that he concocted in the first place. Shades of Roger A Muirebe.

huey

America was ROBBED of this great lad

He a long boy, he doing a protect of ordinary man. He giving the oil companies a heck off.

In b4 homocidal faggot memes.

tfw no harmless youth group

>There's kind of a pattern here.

lol, fair enough. I guess if you have no love for English culture/influence then nothing about Churchill would make you like the man.

>Anyway, I remember only half the story. That USED to be the theory, based on Abwehr documents. When the Soviet Archives opened up, it turns out Stalin ordered the forgery, passed them to the Abwehr on the downlow. The Abwehr got excited and made sure they reached Stalin, hoping to kill off his generals. Stalin 'fell' for the Abwehr plot, that he concocted in the first place.

That's incredible. And amazingly brilliant by German intelligence if it's true. Basically gave Barbarossa a chance to succeed, with the way the Purge gutted the Red Army and put morons in charge. My favorite little snippet from that time period, showing how badly it hurt their command structure:

>Soviet soldier in eastern poland, 1941
>starts hearing gunshots
>sees German tanks coming
>radios moscow "we're under attack, it's the germans!"
>response: "hahaha, what are you talking about? Are you crazy? Why aren't you talking in code?"

ywn live in a timeline where the Kingfish became the president. What a waste.

Here's a taste of what he was like:

youtube.com/watch?v=hphgHi6FD8k

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cedric_Belfrage

>At the height of McCarthyism, Belfrage was summoned in 1953 to appear before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC).
>In 1995, the decrypted VENONA intercepts—a project between the US and British intelligence services to decipher Soviet wires — were made public. United States intelligence has alleged that Unnamed Codename Number 9 (UNC/9) was Belfrage.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Karr

>In 1950, Senator Joseph McCarthy referred to Karr as Drew Pearson’s “KGB controller”.
>After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1992, in the new atmosphere of openness, Soviet investigative journalist Albats published an article in Izvestia quoting documents from KGB archives that Karr was “a competent KGB source” who ‘‘submitted information to the KGB on the technical capabilities of the United States and other capitalist countries.”

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Coe

>Called before the HUAC (chaired by Congressman Karl Mundt), Coe denied under oath having ever been a member of the CPUSA.
>A recent investigation into the KGB archives claims that files show Coe to have been a Soviet agent.

But this one is my favourite

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lauchlin_Currie

>the United States refused to renew his passport in 1954 due to the McCarthyism atmosphere in Washington, DC.
>He appears in the VENONA cables under the cover name 'PAGE', and in Soviet intelligence archives as 'VIM' and as a source for the Golos and Bentley spy networks.

Why he is my favourite? Because of this.

>From 1943 to 1944, Currie ran the Foreign Economic Administration where he played a major role in recruiting or recommending economists and others throughout the Washington administration. Prominent examples are John Kenneth Galbraith, Richard Gilbert, Adlai Stevenson, and William O'Dwyer.

So we have a Soviet agent recruiting people who would later become part of the United States liberal establishment.

I miss playing Kaiserreich.

Don't we all

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No. Some of us are playing Kaiserreich.

>So we have a Soviet agent recruiting people who would later become part of the United States liberal establishment.

Which led to 25 years of booming economic growth?

No, they were already part of the establishment. Adlai Stevenson was the son of a Vice President and Congressman, and was serving as Special Assistant to the Secretary of the Navy. Galbraith was the deputy head of the OPA meaning he was the second most important man in the office that litterally decides the price of everything in America. O'Dwyer was a major mayoral candidate in NYC and a Brigadier General.

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If commies have been puppeteering American liberalism for decades why haven't we had an edgy communist revolution yet? All we got was boring social democracy and decent paced economic growth

litteraly raped girls to death

Not to mention the neoliberal, triangulation turn. So we don't have that anymore.

Personally, I always preferred Victoria II to Kaiserreirch. I made this really fun mod for it, where Napoleon dies in 1811 and Davout takes over, Hamilton becomes US president, and Heshen does't bankrupt China. It make for a truly brilliant game. The UK, France, Russia, and later in the 19th century China and the US, all competing for world domination. Why did good, honest men, like Hamilton, like Napoleon, like Pitt, like Alexander, like the Jiaqing Emperor, have to be brought down by jealous, conniving subordinates? It's just not fair.

Heaven if you sent us down, for all the sinners, all the saints, you'll be so proud of what you made...

I think we have gotten an edgy communist reaction. It's just difficult to see because the "classical liberal" tradition of the USA is just that strong. I don't think "puppeteering" is the right word, but they have been influencing your ancestors since the 1870s, sometimes for good (40-hour work week), sometimes for bad (making us turn on each other, promoting racial divisions).

The commies are doing everything they can to destroy the American way of life. Their dream is the "UASR" outlined in "Reds! A Revolutionary Timeline" (feel free to google it, it's the work of an insane commie american). The fact that they have failed to do so is only thanks to the efforts of brave men and women all over the country who know the dangers of leftism, especially in "swing states" like Florida where were the only thing standing between the Oval Office and socialist wackos like Gore...

>Gore
>Socialist wacko
Where the fuck did this come from?

I'm sorry, I was exaggerating to prove a point. Gore is not a socialist wacko, but he is the first step towards that madness. "Give an inch, they'll take a mile", every victory by the Democratic Party pushes us one step closer towards the insanity and brutality that my grandparents, father, aunt, and their cousins risked their lives to escape.

Every time we elect a Democrat, we take on step closer towards Castro. We're not interested in that, and we'll do everything we can to fight it.

these two posts are both from me btw

what we were taught in school
>McCarthy was a bully
>McCarthy was a drunk
>McCarthy surrounded himself with evil people like Roy Cohn
>McCarthy just made shit up for his own self aggrandisement.
>All those poor people dragged before HUAC were completely innocent and victims of a combination of prejudice and hysteria.

what actually happened:
>the US government was riddled with communist sympathisers and actual Soviet spies
>the US media establishment was even more riddled with communist sympathisers and actual Soviet spies
>one man tried to stand up to them
>one man tried to drag them out into the light.
>when he realised he was losing, he started to sink into depression and alcoholism
>paranoia took hold and he lost perspective, which led to his downfall
>the communist traitors he tried to expose danced on his grave, using their stranglehold on the media to completely control the narrative around him (why would anyone make an entire biopic with James Woods about someone as minor as Cohn except as propaganda?)

>the bad guys won

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>in before some clearly made up propaganda about him personally giving new married couples a quadrillion dollars and how a thousand loaves of bread cost only $0.01

>implying it's fake
Libya is a country with 4 million, their welfare state was real and extravagant.

>MAGA from the ash that the Persians left
You don't know how happy I am knowing some one else saw Pericles as Making Athens Great Again

Wow, five people out of how many? Did McCarthy do the intelligence work himself?

>the answer is he didn't and he carried it too far
He was also from Wisconsin, a state rife with fuckwits.

This.

dude /pol/ lmao

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No they're from me

The thread was "did nothing wrong" not "did everything wrong"

>my great-grandfather spent 3 years in this LOVELY commie prison just outside of Havana for disagreeing with Saint Fidel
Holy shit. Did he survive La Cabana?

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You mean keep all of his promises in the first week of his presidency? What's wrong with that?

He promised to destroy America.

I love our president immensely

He did, actually! Fortaleza de San Carlos. How did you know? Is it that famous?

Not that famous. I particularly like to study revolutionary history. It's shocking how awful and mean-spirited the Cuban Revolution was compared to how we're generally encouraged to see it. I read that that particular prison was where Che Guavara (who according to every non-Castro or autobiographical source was a horrible and incompetent person) carried out most of his executions.

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Cheeto Benito

Literally saved Spain

>did nothing wrong
>lose miserably and ideology is discredited to the point where your ideological successors universally deny your greatest accomplishment (The Final Solution)

>BTFO communists
is it really a beatdown if you end up disgraced and the commies end up still existing

Everyone involved in sentencing these two.

>killing leftists
>ever wrong

Daily reminder Robespierre did nothing wrong
>being this pure in ideology

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t. Juancito Alvarez

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agree 100%

where is proof?

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>Robespierre did nothing wrong
Fucking hell this is one of the rightest things you will ever read anons. The French Revolution wasn't when the world started going insane. The death of Robespierre was. He wanted to save us all and almost did it.

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Robespierre was actually one of the least bloodthirsty politicians in revolutionary France. He supported The Terror but if everyone had listened to him when they first got started it never would have been necessary in the first place. The wars were what pushed France into unrest and violence and he was always against them.

Only sane people in this thread
Everyone else is wrong

>No one loves armed missionaries
There would not even be a need for the Terror to happen in the first place

Seeing as only 40k people were killed it was worth it. Far more people die over a lot less these days.

hes like the original doom paul.

Ernesto "Che" motherfucking Guevara did LITTERALLY nothing wrong

>smart
>beautiful
>a doctor
>always fighting for the good guys, always fighting for the weaker side
>fighting any dictatorship in the motherfucking world
>a communist
>BTFO fascists, capitalists, and homosexual scum
>bullets in the head to the anti-revolutionaries
>never corrupted
>refused money and popularity just for spreading the revolution

An hero

oh, so fucking yes, user!

>Terror or not, the French revolution was the right thing to do

Robespierre: the hero we need, and that we don't deserve

>saved Spain

wew lads

this motherfucker made sure Spain was a third world country for at least 30 fucking years, before waking up in the 70s

good pick, user!

and the only non-shitposting pick of the whole thread.
Good job

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>did LITTERALLY nothing wrong
>communist

There's nothing wrong with what he said.

>REFRESH
>REFRESH
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;___; soon to be defaced by a nigger

>cucks gon cuck

He's barely done anything yet.

>Why isn't Hillary in jail though?

>this motherfucker made sure Spain was a third world country
Would you have preferred Spain to get involved in WW2 and have them rely on the Marshal Plan tugboat?

>Ernesto "Che" motherfucking Guevara did LITERALLY everything wrong

>crude
>reportedly rarely bathed and smelled because of it
>dropped out of medical school
>always fighting for whoever will take him on because he was just a smelly unemployed drifter who enjoyed killing people who were bound and blindfolded
>trying to recreate the pathetic non-success that was the Cuban Revolution in other countries against real militaries and getting BTFO every single time due to his own ineptitude
>a communist
>BTFO intellectuals, industrialists, farmers, teenagers who spoke out of line or listened to American music
>bullets in the head of anybody Castro pointed at
>corrupted from the start
>user how the fuck are you this deluded have you seen where he lived after the revolution?

unfortunately not an hero, the self-inflicted bullet wound he gave himself while waiting at the wrong beach during the Bay of Pigs Invasion missed his brain.