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Never seen this photo before, this is genuinely extremely sad
Look at his smile, comrade. He knows good things are ahead. We have to make his hopes come true.
To be fair to Stalin, his policies were a result of the failures of any revolutions in the West other than the USSR, and the rapidly rising threat of fascism. We don’t know if Lenin wouldn’t have done similar things given the same pressures. And the leaders who came after Stalin were, for the most part, utterly trash, so I can kinda not really hate on Stalin.
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.
for being a paranoid
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
Horrible news comrade, but Lenin died at the most depressing point in Soviet history when the larger European revolution that they were counting on had been completely defeated and the prospects of socialism in Russia were extremely grim. He absolutely does not think good times are ahead. Read “Lenin’s Last Struggle” or Zizek’s collection of his ppst-revolutionary writings if you want to cry
There will be a massive memorial to Lenin and all the other revolutionaries in a communist America.
Put them in places that make the libs cry most
I'm unsure at what to do with the statue of liberty
Re-bronze it and give it a hammer instead, or just tear it down and replace it with a giant lenin statue a la Red Alert 3
Honestly I genuinely like the Statue of Liberty- It represents everything that this land could be and the message is still sound. Re-bronzing it would be funny and make a lot of libs mad, so maybe do that.
Yes! Yes! How could I have forgotten this beautiful option!
His hopes shall not die in vain. We shall build a socialist world.
He should’ve done more push-ups naked at the beach with his friends. Get that testicle sunning done
Don’t be sad! Look at his smile, his hope for the future! We will make it a reality.
Frunze at the Treaty of Creation: "And who has a better story... than Vlad the Broken?"
