It's *always* really fucking easy to talk about what a shitty person the Evil Overlord is after he's gone People all crowd to the front of the room to do it, they've all got a story to share, and they all leave out the part of the story where they didn't do jack shit at the time
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There's that apocryphal story about de-Stalinization in the USSR Khruschev giving his long speech about how abusive and tyrannical Stalin was and how the USSR had to move beyond his cult of personality
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Someone yells out "But you worked for him all those years! Why didn't you say any of this then?" And he just looks out and yells "Who said that?!" *eerie silence* "...Yeah. That's why"
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*Sound of journalists rewriting their active complicity as brave stories of resistance from within*
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Personal interests before public duty.
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