@PugJesus to Political MemesEnglish • 1 year agoWhen your oppressive oligarchy manages to discredit a perfectly serviceable economic ideology for literal generationsimagemessage-square10arrow-up161arrow-down18
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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish19•1 year agoIgnoring elections, banning opposition parties and turning the guns on striking workers all happened under Lenin. Stalin was worse but Lenin doesn’t get off the hook by a long shot.
minus-square@Earthwormjim91link4•1 year agoAnd all of that ignores the mass executions directed by Lenin during the Red Terror.
I blame Stalin.
Ignoring elections, banning opposition parties and turning the guns on striking workers all happened under Lenin. Stalin was worse but Lenin doesn’t get off the hook by a long shot.
And all of that ignores the mass executions directed by Lenin during the Red Terror.
I blame Brezhnev too.
Don’t forget Khrushchev.