Well, I don't even know. Ivan the Terrible reined in the boyars because they were making his life impossible. I prefer the monarchy of the Russian Empire. That's where the golden age of the nation was! Lenin staged the revolution not to liberate the people, but for his own selfish goals, as banal as American humor – for the sake of power. From the very beginning, the revolutionaries incited the people to revolt through various kinds of "set-ups" against Nicholas II. In particular, there was the incident when the people came to the Tsar's palace, and they were shot from the windows! And Nicholas wasn't even in the palace at that time! But that's not the point. When Lenin came to power, he completely got rid of the intelligentsia; he needed a people who would blindly follow him. He also declared Orthodox Christianity, and indeed any religion, illegal. People were supposed to believe only in him and the party. A kind of "cult of personality" emerged. The idea of communism is good, but everything Lenin told the people was a complete lie. There's even a joke:

In the Tretyakov Gallery, there's a new painting – "the people are torturing Lenin to find out which peasants he gave the land to."

However, despite all this, I'm not a hater of the Soviet regime. My attitude towards it is the same as in the cartoon I posted above: at that time, it wasn't bad, it wasn't good, it was NORMAL. And it could have been much better...