I mean this was the first successful socialist experiment and there were already extreme losses from WW2 and enemies from every side. While things quickly got messy because of it, I don't think paranoia was in any way unreasonable
The Mensheviks would have done a better job managing the USSR than Stalin.
lmao
There wouldn't have been a USSR if it had been up to the Mensheviks
The Mensheviks would have done a better job managing the USSR than Stalin.
They literally collaborated with the monarchist Cadets in a conspiracy to invade Petrograd and prevent the convening of the Congress of Soviets. That was literally the act that brought anyone who was on the fence about whether the Provisional Government's tepid reformism was viable or whether a second revolution was already needed into the latter camp, leading to the vote for revolution by the Congress of Soviets followed by the storming of the Winter Palace as the start of the October Revolution.
This is extra stupid considering Stalin had all but morphed into a Menshevik by the time of his death. Check out him slamming the SRs for their insistence of keeping commodity production in the countryside and then justifying doing exactly that in Economic Problems of the USSR lol
Stalin's failures were mostly his own fault for being a paranoid narcissistic sociopath.
The Mensheviks would have done a better job managing the USSR than Stalin.
I mean this was the first successful socialist experiment and there were already extreme losses from WW2 and enemies from every side. While things quickly got messy because of it, I don't think paranoia was in any way unreasonable
lmao
There wouldn't have been a USSR if it had been up to the Mensheviks
is this a bit
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They literally collaborated with the monarchist Cadets in a conspiracy to invade Petrograd and prevent the convening of the Congress of Soviets. That was literally the act that brought anyone who was on the fence about whether the Provisional Government's tepid reformism was viable or whether a second revolution was already needed into the latter camp, leading to the vote for revolution by the Congress of Soviets followed by the storming of the Winter Palace as the start of the October Revolution.
lmao found the radlib
lol
This is extra stupid considering Stalin had all but morphed into a Menshevik by the time of his death. Check out him slamming the SRs for their insistence of keeping commodity production in the countryside and then justifying doing exactly that in Economic Problems of the USSR lol