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That's probably true (I doubt the premise to begin with, I'm not sure if Stalin is universally perceived as more repellent than Hitler by the general public in the UK, the poll results notwithstanding - although I'm not a Brit, I only lived in the UK for a few years).

However such general sentiments can 'survive' the knowledge that kickstarted them and propagate in the collective consciousness without it.

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>However such general sentiments can 'survive' the knowledge that kickstarted them and propagate in the collective consciousness without it.

very true, but that would require the general public to have known about it at any point, which is doubtful in itself.

if we do take his lesser contempt to be true, which I agree is not a given, a darker hypothesis could develop from Hitler's view of the British as as or more Aryan than the Germans

perhaps this twisted compliment could have seeped into the public (sub)consciousness. but again, whether people are or were actually aware of it is questionable, and whether it would have an effect is equally uncertain

Certainly way more people know about the bombing campaigns of 1940-41, whereas at the end of the day, Stalin never dropped bombs on the UK

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