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My idols and why they're my idols.

Dimitri Hammer

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blog-0521904001355849426.jpgYou all know me by now. I was born in the Soviet Union and grew up in Post-Soviet Russia for all of my life.

 

Even though the Union collapsed in 1991 (Actually, it fully collapsed in 1993) my parents and many of my neighbors in the small village I lived in, retained the ideals of communism.

 

In my village we hated Stalin and every man who was in charge after him.

 

 

 

 

The only good communist leaders were Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (Lenin) and his close friend Lev Davidovich Bronshtein (Leon Trotsky).

 

No matter what teachers say in America, my family knew them both closely. They were amazing men with a goal to help the whole entire country.

 

Czar Nicholas was ruining the country by bringing us into World War One. Russia was doing horrible by that point in time. There was no food and people were severely oppressed from doing anything.

 

Eventually there were strikes in the capital city. Even soldiers stationed there (Even the Cossacks :o ) helped the citizens riot.

 

The Czar ordered the shootings of lots of civilians, even small children and women. The protests were mostly non-violent but the Czar was a impatient man.

 

Eventually the Czar came back to Russia and was overthrown. A provisional government was set up, all by capitalist rich land-owners!!

 

I won't tell you the WHOLE history now, since that is not what this blog is about, but Lenin eventually took control of the country.

 

People loved him, he helped everyone. We got out of the war and people got better wages through the use of a Communist system. From 1917-1924 people didn't have incentive since they loved Lenin and his democracy so much.

 

He wasn't corrupt, he went to schools and hospitals and visited random people's houses to check in and help his people. Trotsky did the same!

 

They followed the ideals of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Two German philosophers with amazing minds and warm personalities.

 

Those four communists are the best. They wanted democracy and communism and only wanted to help the working class people.

 

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Dimitri Hammer
no matter what I do, school always haunt me!!! >_<

 

 

jk jk ^_^

 

:lol:

 

Can't learn the things I know about Lenin and Trotsky from anyone!

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Dimitri Hammer
While I still don't agree with comunism, I can now see why you do.

 

Communism has been ruined by Stalin, the Chinese, Vietnamese, Cambodians and Koreans and Cubans.

 

The only good communism was from the old Soviet Union in 1917-1924. After Lenin died and Leon was exiled Russia was using a Dictatorship...not Communism.

 

Communism is not a government, it's a theory to provide equal treatment for all working class men and women. No race or class divisions either. It works with democracy too.

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Darty

I don't dislike comunism for being a dictatorship, I dislike it for controlling the free market.

 

But again, I can see why someone would and why you do.

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Dimitri Hammer
I don't dislike comunism for being a dictatorship, I dislike it for controlling the free market.

 

But again, I can see why someone would and why you do.

 

But it's not a dictatorship. It's a Democracy, but I do understand and respect your opinions.

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longgone

Yeah, I heard the Czar sent in the Cossack calvary to massacre the protesters, but when they arrived they had a "eh, why not?" moment. And then they became known as "Comrade Cossacks"? It's from a doc on the Russian Revolution. 

 

Sometimes I REALLY wish communism would work, that people weren't greedy enough. But alas, that can never happen :(.

 

Stalin's kinda funny. When Hitler invaded Russia, he refused. He was almost ready to go out there and see for himself. Plus, it was HOURS after german tanks started rolling over the border that Russians were even allowed to shoot back!

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Dimitri Hammer
Yeah, I heard the Czar sent in the Cossack calvary to massacre the protesters, but when they arrived they had a "eh, why not?" moment. And then they became known as "Comrade Cossacks"? It's from a doc on the Russian Revolution. 

 

Sometimes I REALLY wish communism would work, that people weren't greedy enough. But alas, that can never happen :(.

 

Stalin's kinda funny. When Hitler invaded Russia, he refused. He was almost ready to go out there and see for himself. Plus, it was HOURS after german tanks started rolling over the border that Russians were even allowed to shoot back!

 

The Comrade Cossacks, a very inspirational moment in Russian history! The hardest and most loyal fighters in the Russian imperial army turned on the Czar and joined my proletariat brothers and sisters in the protest!!

 

I also wish it would work....

 

Stalin's a paranoid and crazy jerk but a funny man....in a jerk way...

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Ferret Girl

Many people also see Lenin a an evil person, and the textbooks here give him little credit for anything, but truly, he wasnt as bad as people can make him out to be when they assume he was like Stalin, which is ludicrous.

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Dimitri Hammer
Many people also see Lenin a an evil person, and the textbooks here give him little credit for anything, but truly, he wasnt as bad as people can make him out to be when they assume he was like Stalin, which is ludicrous.

 

Lenin was a magnificent man.

 

Comparing him to Stalin is like comparing Mother Teresa to Hitler.

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Ferret Girl
Lenin was a magnificent man. Comparing him to Stalin is like comparing Mother Teresa to Hitler.

Wxactly my point, however, here in the USA most every one sees him as just another communist dictator.

 

They dont see him for the good.

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Commander Urdnot

I can't form an opinion about communism, as I don't know very much about it. The little information I do know came from textbooks and teachers that seemed a little bit biased against communism, so I don't take the information to heart.

 

I honestly don't really care about politics and government and all that stuff. I'm just in it for the ride.

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Nohbdy

With its entire philosophy based on egalitarian principles, communism sounds like an ideal form of government--in an ideal world. As history shows us, somebody will inevitably come in and screw things up. For the USSR, Stalin was that somebody. It's far easier to be evil than it is to be good in this world.

 

One might say Lenin was a hero, and I'd be inclined to agree. Anything was better than the corrupt, broken mess that was the Empire. He did his part in trying to fix that. But whether his revolution was good in the long term is up for debate, as it let people like Stalin take over far too easily. What was supposed to be about the People ended up being about the corrupt politicians, who sat in their comfy offices while the workers starved.

 

My own family was destroyed by these so-called communists (of the Chinese variety). I can never trust humans to make communism work.

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