I was replying to another post about STEMs, when I found this article criticizing Einstein's views of the USSR. It's only 5 pages so Iit's a very fast reading. It's funny af, an article about skeptcism and bias to be parroting anti-communist propaganda and comparing H*tler to Stalin without a hint of irony.

Also, I knew he was a socialist but holy shit, he would 100% be called "tankie redfash" nowadays

Anyway, here are the funniest parts:

Einstein refused to join or endorse an international commission headed by John Dewey to investigate the Moscow Show Trials (a consistent skeptic would seek both confirmatory and discrediting evidence) and would subsequently write to Max Born that “there are increasing signs the Russian trials are not faked, but that there is a plot among those who look upon Stalin as a stupid reactionary who has betrayed the ideas of the revolution” (quoted in Born 1971, p. 130). Born would later comment that most people in the West at the time believed the trials “to be the arbitrary acts of a cruel dictator.” Einstein, however, relied upon information from people he described as “those who know Russia best.”

Based af

While Einstein’s writings, letters, and correspondence on this issue are scattered, his correspondence with the philosopher Sidney Hook on this specific issue is most enlightening (and disturbing).

Liberal cope

Max Born (1971) also found Einstein’s views toward the Soviet Union “hard to reconcile” (p. 131). Hook (1987) summarizes that he “was mystified by Einstein’s failure to come to grips with the revelations of the victims of Stalin’s terror” (p. 478).

More cope

Libs are hanging out with nazis, shitheads like Churchil, Thatcher, Pinochet and Reagan while we hang out with chads like Fred Hampton, Mao, Lenin, Mandela and now Einstein