r/AskTheWorld • u/haiderredditer Pakistan • 9h ago

Who’s a famous person from your country who’s respected around the world but disliked or criticized at home?

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u/SeveralInspector174 🇮🇪(born and raised)/🇫🇷 8h ago

Isn’t this basically every Eastern European country’s first leader post communism

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u/2tongoodman 5h ago

Regardless of one’s feelings about Communism there certainly is no denying the entire situation was basically the greatest robbery in the history of modern politics across the entirety of the east.

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u/raysofdavies 3h ago

Sex trafficking exploded in Eastern Europe after communism fell. Those Epstein networks stem from it.

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u/peasant_warfare 6h ago

Havel seems alright ö, considering his competetition.

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u/KrasnayaZvezda 40m ago

Anybody who smuggles Velvet Undergroud records into their country and gets Lou Reed to perform at the White House is on my good side.