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Comment on YSK Joseph Stalin created the Great Terror. He started killing people randomly including artists, generals, doctors, diplomats, government officials. Everyone was terrified.

NaibofTabr@infosec.pub ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

There’s a pretty good Behind the Bastards episode on Stahlin. Basically he was an ultra-paranoid drunk that forced his cabinet members to get drunk with him on a regular basis, which pretty much ruined any potential for effective government in the USSR.

Russia has a strong-man fetish which even the Bolsheviks couldn’t overcome. For all the post-revolution ideology and communist rhetoric, they still just want a Tsar.

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davel@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

For all the post-revolution ideology and communist rhetoric, they still just want a Tsar.

So true: this is scientifically measurable on the Slavic barbarian skull /s

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- DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  This sarcasm would work better if it wasn’t a direct riff on Hexbear jokes about Anglo Saxons. Which are probably ironic, but in the sense that everyone is about to die from poisoning.
  
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- hunnybubny@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  You cannot possibly go over governing bodies, their policies and approval ratings. It is as impossible to do.
  
  Just like measuring freedoms in other countries.
  
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