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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With the emergence of the USSR as the world's first communist state...
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The philosophical aspects of #Communism have always been used to defend it.
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During the 1917 October Revolution, Vladimir Lenin & his followers applied this to take control of St.Petersburg.
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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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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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And this was not justice. This was Lenin’s revenge as the #Ulyanov against the #Romanov family.
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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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Thanks to #VladimirLenin, the Russian Civil War alone took 7,000,000 – 12,000,000 lives.
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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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🔸#Collectivization in the #SovietUnion was a policy, pursued between 1928 and 1933, to consolidate individual land...
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🔸The #GreatPurge/#GreatTerror was a campaign of political repression in the #USSR that occurred from 1936-38.
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🔸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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After #Stalin's death, the suppression of dissent was dramatically reduced and took new forms.
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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.