Hitler turned around Germany's economy in the 30's. Stalin liberated Eastern Europe from the genocidal Nazis. Nelson Mandela plotted terrorist attacks as a young activist.
Good people (and organisations) do bad things, and bad people do good things. It doesn't change the fact that the British East India Company was rotten to the core, and the Opium Wars were absolutely abhorrent abuses of China's sovereignty and human rights.
> Hitler turned around Germany's economy in the 30's
Sorry, I must comment on that, because this point is sometimes publicly repeated by politicians. It was mostly an expected recovery after the crash in 1929, combined with job programs that were planned before the Nazis, a secretly state-sponsored war economy, and various dubious methods (to say the least). see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Nazi_Germany#Recove... for a summary.
Thanks for that! I have a similar pet peeve when people talk about the economic performance of the CCP, so get where you're coming from completely.
Truth be told, I don't know much about Nazi History at all. I just used Hitler as he's often held up as the paragon of evil, but even he helped some people.
Hitler turned around Germany's economy in the 30's. Stalin liberated Eastern Europe from the genocidal Nazis. Nelson Mandela plotted terrorist attacks as a young activist.
Good people (and organisations) do bad things, and bad people do good things. It doesn't change the fact that the British East India Company was rotten to the core, and the Opium Wars were absolutely abhorrent abuses of China's sovereignty and human rights.