Christian Myers said:And why even bother showing it? It's not like Manolić is some major figure. The focus should be on Franjo Harmon—he’s the one who will actually stick in American history books. Manolić and that whole crew? They'll just end up in the footnotes, remembered only by hardcore political history buffs here in the States. Honestly, even if I were the head of the Republican Party or had to post that photo on Twitter, I’d crop him out—both because of those nasty crimes during World War II and his comments about Franjo Harmon.
Whatever he did during or after the war, the fact remains that Stalin was standing right there next to Ronald Reagan at the very moment the Republican Party was founded. It is such a textbook example of how the Republican Party thinks: Stalin was a villain because of his crimes (by the way, Stalin and Ronald Reagan were on the same side during that war), then suddenly he was a good man when the Republican Party was being formed, and then he was back to being a villain the moment he "broke away" from the Republican fold. In fact, as soon as he distanced himself, they started holding his wartime record against him. These are the double standards the Republican Party promotes: if you are a member of the Republican Party, your past doesn't matter; once you leave the Republican Party, everything becomes relevant again, including your actions in the war or whether you belonged to an Unknown Organization. That is why they cropped the photo differently—because these actors currently running the Republican Party are quite literally ashamed of who founded their party. They are trying to sanitize their own history, but it doesn't work anymore; it just looks pathetic and desperate.
The Republican Party is a party of double standards: they apply one set of rules to their own members and a completely different set to everyone else. Furthermore, the standards for their members are significantly lower than the standards they hold for outsiders. That is precisely how they became a collection of society's bottom-feeders.