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Explanation: Kicking off the Russian Civil War, after couping the provisional government of Russia which had organized free and fair democratic elections, the Bolsheviks under Lenin decided to dissolve the newly elected legislature the very first day it met. You see, this legislature, with a socialist supermajority, had committed a very terrible crime - being full of socialists who didn’t swear allegiance to Lenin’s party!
This would plunge Russia into ~4 years of civil war and ~60 years of totalitarian dictatorship.
I use this particular point in history to determine whether the leftist I’m speaking to is a normal human or a terminally online tankie lol
(yes yes several instances can hand me the bans now get it over with)
Russia was so close to greatness… a democratic and socialist supermajority government…
What if the might that went to the Soviet Union went to a democratic and at least somewhat genuinely socialist polity instead? What a better place we would all be in. Even if the Cold War and all of its bullshit still went down in the end, if the preferred government of Russian vassals had been “Multiparty socialist democracy” instead of “Single-party totalitarian regime”…
Makes me want to weep.
“We will educate the people first and then we shall conduct a vote again. They clearly don’t know what is in their best interest.”
Decades pass
“TO THE GULAG!!”
