• ThirdConsul@lemmy.zip
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      4 days ago

      I don’t think his downfall screems “oh, he was arrested for his crimes” - it seems more “he’s getting purged for political reasons”?

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        3 days ago

        If the communists didn’t get rid of him, it was because communism bad corrupt. But when in fact they actually did get rid of him, it was “for political reasons.”

        Unfalsifiable orthodoxy

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          Consider the fact he was in power for like 20 years, and he was purged during power struggles. And the problem, like always, is not communism, but the fact it was USSR - contemporary communists, like Mao, were calling it socialist in words, imperialist in deeds.