Gaslighting: Joseph Stalin
By Gemini AI When power cannot control reality, it begins to rewrite it. Gaslighting has become a common practice all over the world now. For those who are not familiar with the word, gaslighting refers to the practice of psychologically manipulating someone into questioning their own knowledge, memory, and/or powers of reasoning. Gaslighting makes us doubt the truth we clearly see. If politics distorted facts earlier, today it teaches us to distrust our own perception of them – and that’s gaslighting. The real crisis of our times is not misinformation, but the steady erosion of our confidence in what is real. Joseph Stalin Many political leaders used this art of gaslighting effectively in the past, though the word is new. Let us take Joseph Stalin as an example today, one of the most systematic practitioners of gaslighting. Stalin was a master of converting the very obvious reality into a political instrument. He didn’t merely censor facts, he rewrote them. Photographs were al...
