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#Thread: The Bloody History of #Communism - Chapter 1: #USSR

Communism is a political system in which the state owns the economy & aims to treat everyone equally.

But the last 100 years have proved it to be a nightmare which brought only bloodshed, torture & fear.

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From Marx to Lenin, Stalin, Mao or Pol Pot, the materialist philosophy of #Communism transformed these humans into theorists of violence and masters of cruelty.

With the emergence of the USSR as the world's first communist state...

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...,the slow poison of communism’s association with the #Soviet economic model and #Marxism–#Leninism started to spread throughout the world.

The philosophical aspects of #Communism have always been used to defend it.

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But the defenders of this ideology have conspicuously failed to highlight the horrors of #Marxism-#Leninism - the most well-known Marxist school of thought as it was a driving force in international relations during most of the 20th century.

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The goal of #Marxism–#Leninism was the revolutionary transformation of a capitalist state into a socialist state by way of two-stage revolution led by a vanguard party of professional revolutionaries drawn from the proletariat.

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#Lenin knew that power is constrict in certain knots, that you take over an important place, and you’ve already got a city.

During the 1917 October Revolution, Vladimir Lenin & his followers applied this to take control of St.Petersburg.

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They captured railway stations, telephone exchanges, post offices, etc.

The 1917 October Revolution in Russia set the conditions for the rise to state power of Vladimir Lenin's #Bolsheviks which was the first time any avowedly communist party reached that position.

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🔸Aftermath of the #RussianRevolution 👇🏼

Tsar Nicholas II destroyed #Russia to the best of his abilities. After his abdication, he and his family were imprisoned and later killed on the orders of Vladimir Lenin.

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The #Bolsheviks didn’t even spare the Tsar’s 5 children who were innocent. All the children were brutally murdered.

And this was not justice. This was Lenin’s revenge as the #Ulyanov against the #Romanov family.

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🔸The #RedTerror was a period of political repression and mass killings carried out by #Bolsheviks in 1918.

The most reliable estimations for the total number of victims of Bolshevik repression put the number at about 100,000 to 200,000.

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🔸The #RussianCivilWar was a multi-party civil war immediately after the two Russian revolutions of 1917, as many factions vied to determine #Russia's political future.

Thanks to #VladimirLenin, the Russian Civil War alone took 7,000,000 – 12,000,000 lives.

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#JosephStalin assumed leadership over the #SovietUnion following Lenin’s death in 1924.

Despite initially governing the Soviet Union as part of a collective leadership, he eventually consolidated power to become the country's de facto dictator by the 1930s.

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A communist ideologically committed to the Leninist interpretation of #Marxism, #Stalin formalised these ideas as Marxism–#Leninism, while his own policies are known as #Stalinism.

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#Stalinism has been the bloodiest chapter in the history of #Communism. Political repressions were at the peak in the #USSR during the Stalin era.

🔸#Collectivization in the #SovietUnion was a policy, pursued between 1928 and 1933, to consolidate individual land...

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...& labour into collective farms. As the peasantry resisted this policy, the Soviet government resorted to harsh measures to force the farmers.

🔸The #GreatPurge/#GreatTerror was a campaign of political repression in the #USSR that occurred from 1936-38.

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It involved a large-scale repression of wealthy peasants (kulaks); genocidal acts against ethnic minorities; a purge of the #CommunistParty, Govt officials, and the #RedArmy leadership; counter-revolutionaries; imprisonment; and arbitrary executions.

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Historians estimate the total number of deaths due to Stalinist repression in 1937–38 to be between 680,000 and 1,200,000.

🔸The #GULAG was the government agency in charge of the #Soviet network of forced-labour camps set up by order of #VladimirLenin,...

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reaching its peak during #JosephStalin's rule from the 1930s to the early 1950s. Roughly 1,600,000 people died due to detention in these camps.

After #Stalin's death, the suppression of dissent was dramatically reduced and took new forms.

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References:

1) The Black Book of Communism

2) The Russian Revolution: A New History by Sean McMeekin.

3) The Russian Revolution, a documentary.

4) Wikipedia

Chapter 2: People’s Republic of China and Cambodia - coming soon.

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