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How is it considered appropriate to name this project Trotsky? Would they name a project Goebbels or Himmler?

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This is hilarious and previous HN commenters are in sore need of political reeducation to free them from the bourgeois counter-revolutionary ideology clouding their senses of humor.

What? There must be some context I'm missing. What this on HN before, and you're responding to people in the last thread?

Huh, when I responded to that comment it was a root comment at the top of the page. Now I see what it's replying to. Did someone move it?

Please let's not get into a tedious meta-discussion of a tedious meta-discussion.

Are you seriously equating a Russian revolutionary and the German Third Reich?

Trotsky was a deeply violent, cruel and evil progenitor of the most murderous regime in human history so yes.

He was of the same caliber of mass murder. He was one of the main architects of the red terror that claimed hundreds of thousands of lives. The whitewashing of Trotsky and of Lenin does nobody any favors. They were mass murdereres not whitstanding whatever utopia they were dreaming off.

To be fair, I don't think they believed in anything they were selling to the masses. They just used it to get enough power to establish themselves as stable as absolute monarchs(the end of the great terror was the moment when elites realized that they actually already that) Which is exactly why no one should have as much power. The only question how to make it impossible?

Do you have any evidence for this? If Trotsky didn't believe in Marxism, why did he spend most of his time in exile writing Marxist theory?

In OPs defence, Winston Churchill, a European hero, is dispised by some in India for having no regard for his British East Indian subjects. Rewriting of history by the victors has, allegedly, untarnished his name significantly, even in the Indian subcontinent.

Exhibit A: 3 million people died of man-made famine in 1943 for which Churchill is widely held accountable https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengal_famine_of_1943

Similarly, not all Third Reich officers are demonized: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_D%C3%B6nitz#Later_years and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwin_Rommel#Posthumous_honour...

Don't know about him, but I would, Trotsky is one of those people who are responsible for creation of concentration camps in soviet russia on scaling it(among other horrible things). The only reason you don't think about him the same way you think about Stalin or Hitler is because he lost internal competition to Stalin an flew the country.

Please do not take HN threads further into political or ideological flamewar. This leads nowhere interesting. Example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8214343

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