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Originally Posted by Corona688
You call us ignorant of soviet history
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Not "us". You.
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when you don't even understand how Lenin and Stalin were different people with different policies?
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What makes you think I don't understand that?
And what difference does it make anyway? Weren't Hitler and Tojo "different people with different policies" as well?
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Leninism sucked, yes.
Russian politics has always sucked.
Which sucked worse -- the barely-constitutional monarchy, the outright feudalism that preceded it, the leninism following, or the stalinism shortly thereafter? It's like asking "where would you like to be shot".
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Again: what do you know that Solzhenitsyn did not?
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Why Lenin is regarded higher than Stalin is, as far as I can tell, mostly because while Lenin had strange ideas, Stalin was an unmistakable paranoid delusional.
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Actually there is no evidence he was anything but a sociopath. He did not falsely believe people were out to get him, because they were. He was a murderer, after all. As for "delusional", he managed his affairs far too adroitly be called that.
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Lenin's ideas of freedom really don't square with those of any modern democracy, but history remembers that he had some sort of dream.
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Which he did not live long enough to realize. All the available evidence suggests that Stalin DID realize Lenin's dream.
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Stalin's contributions to politics and history, on the other hand, are mostly measured in numbers of dead.
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IOW, other than the fact that he was a mass murderer on a scale never imagined by any of the Czars, there was no significant difference between him and them.
Right?
