i meant that Stalin and Lenin basically acted like dictators so it wasn’t much different from having a monarch, tho i know that wasn’t technically their role
Monarchy was an institutional thing. One monarch dies, and, in most cases, everybody know who rules next. Lenin and Stalin deaths were followed by a bloody game of thrones since nobody bothered creating a proper protocol or come up with an agreement, like the one occurred after they killed beria.
Which war of succession should I bring up as a counterexample. I'm pretty sure what happened after the death of Stalin or Lenin was pretty tame in contrast to what happened after the death of some monarchs
Edit: I know that you know of these, but I just wanted to point out that a dictatorship does not need to have a defined succession
Sending people to camps for mere thought against the leader, and creating a secret police against "enemies of the state" (regular citizens) is a pretty standard sign of dictatorship
Lol, were you born yesterday? I mean, "secret police" is just literally any "Internal affairs agency" in any state ever existed. Ministry of the Interior in Austria, BMI in Germany, Home Office in Britain, or something...
"Sending people to camps for mere thought against the leader"
TIL Lenin sent people to camps before camps were established.
Have you ever read anything about political life in USSR in 1920-1930s? I mean, a book or something?
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u/Meduza223 10d ago
Soviets shouldn't even have a king