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Moral of the story: As an autocrat, when your power is challenged by society as a whole don't fight back attempts at democratic control else worse things may ha
by cassepipe 3y ago
Moral of the story: As an autocrat, when your power is challenged by society as a whole don't fight back attempts at democratic control else worse things may happen for everyone (if you care, also you may end up in front of a firing squad)
(And don't go to war repeatedly, war is always a gamble)
- bradhe 3y agoCharacterising what Stalin did as "open the gulag and crack the whip" really glosses over a lot of details.
- cassepipe 3y agoIt's not that I am glossing over details, it's that I am not referring to Stalin : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_II_of_Russia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_II_of_Russia