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Honest question, do you believe Lenin and Stalin were better than the Czars? I'm not arguing either were good, just curious about your point of view here.
by jki275 6y ago
Honest question, do you believe Lenin and Stalin were better than the Czars?
I'm not arguing either were good, just curious about your point of view here.
- runarberg 6y agoidk. Russia had a lot of czars, some of them (like Ivan the Terrible) were probably worse then even Stalin, and some of them might even have been better then Gorbachev. That said, the revolutionary spirit under Czar Nicolas II were completely rational, and understandable. The use of violence was needed because the ruling class was—unlike at the end of the Soviet Union—unwilling to make the revolution happen peacefully. Nobody can tell the future. The fact that awful people might use the turmoil to seize power is not something that people are thinking about when they are trying to overthrow their current oppressors.