Posts from philosophy

Brezhnev is a hero of our time! :) Or at least of the last century!

What are you getting at? If you're talking about Brezhnev, I don't think he was crazy when he was in power. His inner circle did everything for him, and they did the same thing as now – they grabbed as much as they could. Only now they grab strictly according to the hierarchy, with the President at the head, and back then it was chaotic and without Brezhnev himself.

That's not necessarily true. A Tyrant creates a retinue.

They didn't distort anything. There was just no other way to build communism.

It's a pity about Brezhnev - there were high hopes for him!

Stalin was able to achieve this precisely because he was surrounded by such people.

Without a doubt. Stalin was surrounded by people who wanted the same things he did. If he hadn't had that circle of people around him, Stalin wouldn't have been given so much freedom.

if he and Vladimir Ilyich hadn't had the kind of entourage they had, the idea of communism would have died in its infancy...

but if Nicholas II had been an evil tyrant (aka a demon lord :smile25:), there would have been no Lenin at all (he would have executed the entire family, including his brother...)...:rolleyes:

if Nicholas II had been a tyrant, rather than a martyr, then the Socialist-Revolutionaries would have been primarily interested in his death, and not in the deaths of Prince Sergei and Plehve.

you know, many people didn't like Stalin, but no one assassinated him! And Nicholas would have dealt with the villains and that would be it!

No one dared to criticize Stalin because there wasn't a suitable time. Before the war, it was terrifying to even mention the leader's name aloud; back then, even the walls had ears. During the war, you understand, there was no time. And after the war, he was criticized...