" **** go back " - 50s USSR
Posted Feb 18, 2021, 2:32 PM UTC
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This is wrong though. The policies of Stalin were laid out in detail during Lenin’s rule. It’s a common trope to say all was well until Stalin and then he ruined the Soviet Union. This is far from the truth.
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Lenin:
Introduces a one party vanguard dictatorship
Introduces the secret police
Introduces public executions of "kulaks" to "encourage" compliance with grain confiscations
Introduces the Red Terror and instructs the Cheka to eliminate "counter-revolutionary" bourgeoisie leading to between 10,000 and 140,000 deaths
People with only a passing understanding of either Marxism or the USSR:
The revolution was going great until that asshole STALIN took over.
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It could be argued that this were war measures that were similar to those applied by all other contestant. It doesn't discharged Lenin of his responsability, but we can't know how he or Trotsky will have done thing post-civil war.
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Lenin was the first to divert from the Marxist ideology. This exact issue was one of the main causes of divide between the Bolsheviks and Mensheviks, Lenin and the Bolsheviks were trying to bend Marxist philosophy to justify a communist revolution which wouldn't have been in line with how Marxism says society should progress.
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Wut Marx definitely supported violent resistance and revolution. You know, “if necessary”
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Specifically a socialist revolution, Lenin started his revolution to turn Russia immediately into a communist country, which the Mensheviks who strictly followed the Marxist ideology to every detail, took issue in.
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You could argue that the first 3 aren't 'everything nice' either, but you get the point..
Russians after discovering marxism: Upgrade.
Russians after getting leninism: UPGRADE
Russians after getting stalinism: FUCK GO BACK
Russians after starving to death: I SAID GO THE FUCK BACK
The first Soviet famine happened under Lenin, you can say its not all his fault given it was the aftermath of the civil war. But "LOL Communism hungry" exists since Lenin.
Oh it was under lenin? Didn't know that ^^ my history knowledge of the 19th and 20th century still needs some work