@[email protected] to MeanwhileOnGradEnglish • 10 months agoTankie dispels myth of Stalin as evil dictator by proving he was not, in fact, a dictator.programming.devimagemessage-square9fedilinkarrow-up144arrow-down17file-text
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minus-square@goatMlinkEnglish22•edit-210 months agooh man i wonder what happened after 1926 and Lenin’s death Stalin was threatening to resign because of Lenin’s Testament, in which Lenin criticised and warned about a schism inside of the party after his death and particularly about Stalin’s corruption as General Secretary. There was a legitimate possibility of the party ousting Stalin and replacing his position with one of their own, however, if Stalin resigns, then he would walk away and still pose a threat, as well as leave uncertainty over who gets his position. After he eliminated his opponents, his resignation threats were a way to test his party’s loyalty.
oh man i wonder what happened after 1926 and Lenin’s death
Stalin was threatening to resign because of Lenin’s Testament, in which Lenin criticised and warned about a schism inside of the party after his death and particularly about Stalin’s corruption as General Secretary. There was a legitimate possibility of the party ousting Stalin and replacing his position with one of their own, however, if Stalin resigns, then he would walk away and still pose a threat, as well as leave uncertainty over who gets his position. After he eliminated his opponents, his resignation threats were a way to test his party’s loyalty.