Goes down in history as the most authoritarian guy in history or whatever but Stalin couldnt even find a successor that wouldnt immediately denounce him and his policies. How do we learn from this? Something seems wrong here

  • ratwithagun [she/her]
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    4 years ago

    Mass demoralization. No one believed in the project anymore and that meant a bunch of alcoholics could come in and fuck everything up and there was no one there to stop them

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

      Its a shame, just 10 years before they had defeated fascism and liberated half of europe. Things were looking up and it was all thrown away :/

    • KurdKobein [any]
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      4 years ago

      Wait, are you saying people were demoralized in the fifties?

      • GrandAyatollaLenin [he/him,comrade/them]
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        4 years ago

        Nah. I think that's more of a Brezhnev era thing.

        Personally, I don't think Khrushchev did anything too bad. I wouldn't trace the collapse to him alone.