Funny you mentioned Lenin, because the Real Dictators podcast just started its series about him. There's an anecdote about when famine struck Czarist Russia and some of his (relatively well off, by the standards of the time) family members were discussing relief efforts. Lenin argued instead that starving people were more likely to t…
Funny you mentioned Lenin, because the Real Dictators podcast just started its series about him. There's an anecdote about when famine struck Czarist Russia and some of his (relatively well off, by the standards of the time) family members were discussing relief efforts. Lenin argued instead that starving people were more likely to turn toward Communist revolution.
Stalin might have ultimately killed even more people, but Lenin? Very much a brutalist in his own right.
Funny you mentioned Lenin, because the Real Dictators podcast just started its series about him. There's an anecdote about when famine struck Czarist Russia and some of his (relatively well off, by the standards of the time) family members were discussing relief efforts. Lenin argued instead that starving people were more likely to turn toward Communist revolution.
Stalin might have ultimately killed even more people, but Lenin? Very much a brutalist in his own right.