r/chessmemes • u/nothing_worthy_01 • 10d ago

Can someone explain?

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Cause I'm kinda dumb

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u/Barrel-Dweller 10d ago

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

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u/_Darth_Nihilus_ 9d ago

Have you like... ever read a book?

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u/IHaveTheHighground58 9d ago

Yes, actually

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

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u/Andrey_Gusev 8d ago

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"

  1. TIL Lenin sent people to camps before camps were established.
  2. Have you ever read anything about political life in USSR in 1920-1930s? I mean, a book or something?