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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Adolf Hilter was Time's Person of the Year in 1938. Joseph Stalin was 1939.

Source: https://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/completelist/0,29569,2019712,00.html

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Good catch, I have edited it accordingly. Real "giving the nobel peace prize to Henry Kissinger and the guys he is currently dropping chemical weapons on" vibes.

Also: Holy shit, Chiang Kai-Shek is there for 1937.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Person of the year is not a honorific. It just means most important or influential.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

excuse me i won person of the year and i'm taking it as an honorific

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

Time Magazine Person of the Year is for the most influential person of the year. Not the best, or most admirable. Merely the greatest agent of change.