• AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Vodka had been linked to the Russian economy under multiple Czars. I’m not sure that Stalin could have separated the two even if he had wanted to. Admittedly it doesn’t appear that he wanted to.

    I’m pretty sure that the USSR was screwed the moment that Lenin returned from exile in Germany, or when Wilson was elected. Take your pick.

    The Menchaviks would have been a better government.

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      1 year ago

      The mechaviks literally wanted to continue ww1 and have a psuedo democracy where the bourgeoisie were literally guaranteed a majority of seats, wtf are you talking about?

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      I just find it ironic that Stalin was everything that the party worried about Trotsky becoming.