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"DANGEROUS ALLIANCE OF MENSHEVIKS PLOT TO OVERTHROW AMERICA"

But through the word "Bolshevik", Lenin frightens reactionaries from beyond the grave.

Looks like the Mensheviks were losers and suckers!

  • glimmer_twin [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    It’s funny actually, the CHUDs and libs rarely even mention Lenin when they’re doing red baiting. It’s always Mao this and Stalin that. Maybe even a bit of “hItLeR wAs A sOcIaLiSt”. You’d think leading the first successful proletarian revolution would get you some credit.

    • QuillQuote [they/them]
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      4 years ago

      well thats because its a lot harder to talk about lenin without immediately making him sound cool

    • artangels [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Much less time has been dedicated to making him a boogeyman compared to mao and Stalin. I don’t have a reason but I’m sure there is one.

      • Des [she/her, they/them]
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        4 years ago

        recalling my early youth indoctrination thanks to reading animal farm and other stuff i always thought the general lib consensus was lenin was trying to do good and died and replaced by an "evil" person.

        • MiraculousMM [he/him, any]M
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          4 years ago

          Yeah, Lenin is usually framed in Western education as a misguided but well-intentioned "great history man", who was succeeded by a guy who did bad big gubbermint shit.

    • KobaCumTribute [she/her]
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      4 years ago

      I knew a dipshit who was well on his way down the libertarian to fascist pipeline who said on multiple occasions that Lenin killed 20 million people.

      • p_sharikov [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        I've had people tell me MARX killed 20 million people. They didn't mean indirectly through his ideas either, they thought he was a dictator somewhere.

        • VILenin [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          Of course, he was authoritarian totalitarian 1984 big brother dictator of Soviet Venezuechinussia