Matvei Bronstein: Theorical physicist. Pioneer of quantum gravity. Arrested, accused of fictional “terroristic” activity and shot in 1938
Lev Shubnikov: Experimental physicist. Accused on false charges. Executed
Adrian Piotrovsky: Russian dramaturge. Accused on false charges of treason. Executed.
Nikolai Bukharin: Leader of the Communist revolution. Member of the Politburo. Falsely accused of treason. Executed.
General Alexander Egorov: Marshal of the Soviet Union. Commander of the Red Army Southern Front. Member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party. Arrested, accused on false charges, executed.
General Mikhail Tukhachevsky Supreme Marshal of the Soviet Union. Nicknamed the Red Napoleon. Arrested, accused on fake charges. Executed.
Grigory Zinoviev: Chairman of the Communist International Movement. Member of the Soviet Politburo. Accused of treason and executed.
Even the secret police themselves were not safe:
Genrikh Yagoda : Right-hand of Joseph Stalin. Head of the NKD Secret Police. He spied on everyone in Russia and jailed thousands of innocents. Yagoda was arrested and executed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genrikh_Yagoda
Nikolai Yezhov : Appointed head of the NKD Secret Police after the death of Yagoda. Arrested on fake charges, executed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai_Yezhov
Everybody was absolutely terrified during this period. At least 600 000 people were killed and over 100 000 people were deported to Gulags in Siberia.
Today, Russian schools no longer teach what Joseph Stalin did. Many young russians actually believe that Stalin was a great patriot.
This is part of an effort by Vladimir Putin to rehabilitate him:
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/05/21/stalin-is-making-a-comeback-in-russia-heres-why-a89155
Yes actually. You shouldn’t adopt autocracy however, that is always a bad idea.
Personally I don’t want communism (for me it’s just dictatorship of the workers) but at least you shouldn’t try it until someone figures out how to stop communism from transforming into a dictatorship.
It’s like a 100% success rate in history.
I would love someone to figure out how to stop capitalism from transforming into dictatorships first, since we’re already doing that one, and it also is not going great on that front. Or maybe realise that so called dictatorship of the workers might be preferable to dictatorship of the very few people who never actually worked, since, you know, most of us are workers.
But personally I would like to go away with the concept of dictatorships at all, and communism is actually exactly that. Not, like, for me, but definitially.
Socio democracy seems to resist way better than communism at least.
That said, we all have to fight for our rights continually, there is no system that “works forever” without user input.
What do you mean with “go away with the concept of dictatorship at all”? Especially when you acknowledge communism is exactly that.
What do you think it might possibly mean other than what it obviously means?
That was actually you who came up with this, not only I didn’t “acknowledge” this, I acknowledged quite the opposite. You know, by referring to the definition of the word.