At a time when emotions are running high about voting fraud I stumbled across the below quote/misquote(??) from PolitiFact. I was going to use it(again) in a post, quoted from Joe Stalin(?) UNTIL I ran into the PolitiFact minefield. I have stepped on several of these PolitiiFact mines in the past which can drop the validity of an average to good post into a complete laughing stock. The below Joe Stalin quote(?) is a really popular quote as I have both used & seen it used a bazillion times through the years, & this is the reason I am posting about it. Make SURE TO READ the ENTIRE PolitiFact link below as it offers some possible explanations on how the Joe Stalin misquote came to be.
No, Joseph Stalin didn't say this about elections
Joseph Stalin was a dictator who ruled the Soviet Union for a quarter of a century, so it’s perhaps apropos that he shou
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