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Old 04-19-14, 06:19 AM   #12
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Originally Posted by Jimbuna View Post
Not to forget Lenin.
True, although Lenins kill count is decidedly lower than Stalins, still pretty high though if you attribute the civil war, and the Red Terror to him, although equally you could attribute the latter to Stalin and Dzerzhinsky.
I'm always torn on Lenin, on one hand he had some good intentions, but on the other, as with most revolutionaries, once those intentions hit reality, they became not quite as good.
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