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Originally Posted by bradclark1
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Originally Posted by Letum
Lenin?!
Lenin and the Bolsheviks ruled in a very diffrent way fthan Stalin and the Soviets.
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The name Bolsheviks and Soviets are one and the same but I understand what you are trying to say.
Stalin learned mass terror from Lenin.
To protect the newly-established Bolshevik government from counterrevolutionaries and other political opponents, the Bolsheviks created a secret police, the Cheka.
Lenin had always been an advocate of "mass terror against enemies of the revolution".
Red Terror - Between 1918–1921 up to 200,000 were executed. |
Stalin and Lenin both actually learned about Terror from History of French Revolution.
Lenin did Robespierre(srry for spelling) part. Stalin neutrolized russian robespierians and then did most of the Napoleon part. "Revolution always eats its children..." "Eating" was Stalin Part
Lenin:
Scholars estimate that between 1918–1921 up to 200,000 were executed. This was during the Civil War when excesses were carried out by both Reds and Whites, and Lenin's regime was in deadly peril from the latter
Stalin:
The government archives record that about 800,000 prisoners were executed (for either political or criminal offences) under Stalin; another 1.7 million died of privation or other causes in the Gulags; and some 389,000 perished during kulak resettlement - a total of about 3 million victims.