I’d suggest you conflate a clear view of Russian history - both under the tsars and their replacement dictators — with an emotional state. The two are different for those of us able to use our intellect.
you also assume that my views about Russian and soviet history make me inclined to adopt right wing views. Any of my friends will tell you I am far from that. Further, given that you have labelled azov as nazis in previous posts you appear to be forgetting that I am rather attached to my Jewish heritage.
lenin was a man of many sides with his determination to install communism matched by his determination to be in charge. He never did quite work out how to run a soviet state as a dictatorship of the proletariat resorting instead to being a dictator himself. Clearly he saw himself as the proxy for others and thus started the habit of soviet leaders to helping themselves.
You however clearly suffer from a bad case of bias and a determination to argue from a position of emotion.
to ignore Lenin’s views about the use of violence as a legitimate tool is to ignore the shaping of soviet culture It may not be how he initially envisaged things in his communist utopia but he left it too late to recognise that the cat was out of the bag with Stalin and he clearly never understood that he was simply continuing a habit of violent, greedy and oppressive kinghood that had been part of the tsars’ stock in trade.
you can bleat all you like about my horse but while I’m engaged on this field with the swill and muck of posters who choose to ignore Russia’s bloodthirsty list for ukraine I think I shall stay on it
