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Monday, December 15, 2003


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The Soviet Union was a failure in attempted socialism/communism. Stalin turned the Soviet state into an authoritarian one. Had not Stalin ruined communism as we know it, and allow for other dictators to follow after him, then the Soviet Union could have possible succeeded in really creating an equal society in which labor is for meeting the needs of society and not for profit that defies nature. If a Leninist had followed Lenin's position after his death, such as Leon Trotsky, then the Soviet Union would not be turned into a militarial opressive state, but could have instead become a workers' state which gave its residents basic human rights. It would not have persecuted opposers for a mere difference in belief. So if Leninism had remained in power and had not been turned into an authoritarian regime, then the Soviet Union would be a great nation in which the proletariats were in power and not fat cat military leaders. The capitalists opression was replaced with that of military opression with secret police and the like. This happened because of Stalin's succession of power and corrupted the Soviet Union's hopes for communism.

"Very few established institutions, governments and constitutions...are ever destroyed by their enemies until they have been corrupted and weakened by their friends."

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