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2024-10-13 22:40:59 UTC - HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: 7D96B24678C0C0CA0573A9736BEFD4638D385327A09F7F52F80230C3EE68CFA2
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Although this story circulates since the late 1980s it has been factchecked several times and it is a legend, not an anecdote. Here’s a 2021 factcheck by Polifact: https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/nov/16/facebook-posts/false-anecdote-about-stalin-and-chicken-circulates/ And another one (2020) by Snopes: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/stalin-chicken-feathers/
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