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.
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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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