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Re:Open Letter to the Linux Foundation by ajross on Friday November 08, 2019 @03:47PM (#21486548)
Yeah, but "making loyalty accusations" isn't exactly what Stalin is known for. He's known for a brutal purge that sent his political enemies to death camps.

To Godwinize for clarity: this is like using "Hitlerian" to celebrate a public policy achievement in passenger rail scheduling.

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Re:Open Letter to the Linux Foundation by Fellshard on Friday November 08, 2019 @04:07PM (#21486773)
It is at the core of the worldview and ideology he espoused. The actions he is known for flow out from that ideology.
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Re:Open Letter to the Linux Foundation by neonate on Saturday November 09, 2019 @03:27AM (#21490358)
In this case I suppose "Stalinist" is a metonym for the apparatchiks who enforced ideological purity in institutions and made sure that deviants got punished.
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