Heard him mentioned on Hexbear before but forgot the details. He was probably on the ball.

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              • RedDawn [he/him]
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                Maoist 30% bad 70% good

                This was allegedly Mao’s assessment of Stalin and later Deng’s of Mao (more or less). They both thought Kruschev was a piece of shit revisionist as far as I know. There’s a reason the Chinese communists never did to Mao what Kruschev did to Stalin, if they had, the PRC likely would have faced the same fate as the USSR.

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        Kruschev was smart enough to get himself into trouble but never quite smart enough to get out of it. Tragically Beria was capable of running the Soviet Union post Stalin but was on a personal level a monster.

        Like how Henry the 8th was the one to break the political power of the dukes and barons thus enabling England to modernise but was also a serial killer

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            he did a particularly neat job with the unification of countries in a similar situation to Germany unlike the absolute mess that was the East / West Germany situation and its exacerbation of the cold war