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You know the CIA downplayed the "Stalin as a dictator" narrative?
And that Stalin tried to step down 4 times but was rejected?
And that the Tsarist years preceeding the Soviet Union offered zero democracy, but only an autocratic, absolute monarchy?
And Democrats are better than republicans. But you still don't generally see people advocating to be more like neoliberals. Something leninists should take a clue on
Was the Soviet Union technically more democratic than czarist Russia? Not meaningfully. Anyone who would have democratically disagreed. Was often exiled to siberia, imprisoned, or just executed.
Perhaps had Stalin not been a failure at everything including stepping down things would have been different. But here we are.
Stalin was a dictator
People tried to make George Washington a king, and he refused. They had monarchy until then, but he helped make sure America had elections. Why didn't Stalin do that if he was so determined not to be dictator?
Sounds like either Stalin was a huge wimp and a figurehead for the owning class oligarchy, or he was faking those attempts to step down.
Wow, tell me more about how the CIA viewing the Soviet Union as an oligarchy means that it was a Workers' Democracy(tm)
Imagine being so brainrotted you simp for Stalin. I guess genocide and fascism are just too alluring for some to resist.