User blog comment:Draugluin the werewolf/This guy on youtube, why do I even bother./@comment-26065062-20170110160708

While we're on the subject of correcting common historical misconceptions: Napoleon wasn't short, he was above average height at the time, it was a propaganda lie from the English; Lenin wasn't bad by any means, he worked tirelessly to throw off Russia's aristocracy and improve the lives of russians, it was Stalin, his right-hand man who betrayed that and made it into a terrible regime; Christopher Columbus didn't discover America, he just landed on the Bahamas while thinking he was in India and didn't know that he had landed near a huge continent unknown to most europeans ("most" since technically the Chinese, Russians/Ukrainians and Scandinavians knew of it before that), if any credit should be held due, it should be to John Cabot, who actually landed on North American shores and documented it, or Leif Eriksson who landed there half a millenium before and even set up permanent colonies (I'm excluding a muslim scholar from Ukrania who calculated that a large continent should exist there, since it's debatable wether he was European).