• poVoq@slrpnk.net
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      1 year ago

      Lenin placed Stalin as an enforcer to do the dirty stuff for him. It would be very naive to assume Lenin didn’t know the risk involved of putting a former mob gangster in such a position.

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        Without taking any of the bad stuff from Lenin, from what I’ve read I know that by the end of his life he was not very fond of Stalin, and he was a little scared of Stalin was going to do with all the power. Not that Stalin’s alternative would’ve been a great guy…