Which is fine and so what. Had Hitler won or Stalin won, I would be perceived and lesser and bad. So what?
Executions have a lot of opposition now. Various warfare has a lot of opposition now. People now judge both prosecutors and politicians that cause all that war related suffering.
> Frankly we are obsessed about finding flaws in historical people.
First, you made up obsession. Second, what you call historical flaws were pretty often subject of massive criticism of contemporaries. They were pretty often not really the norm.
Third, when you praise values or behavior of back then, the bad side of it is completely fair game. Because the wins are often related, facilitaded by or directly caused the ugly side.
> For example, Einstein treated his wife not so well. I don't feel any compulsion to bring that into a discussion of his achievements. It doesn't diminish his achievements.
And if you was taking about his relationship advice, his marriage behavior would suddenly matter.
If you talked about why women in past did not had same achievements as men, his wife history is very nice example to be used.
> it would be biased to not talk about flaws too
Frankly we are obsessed about finding flaws in historical people. For example, Einstein treated his wife not so well. I don't feel any compulsion to bring that into a discussion of his achievements. It doesn't diminish his achievements.