Mason

The Combides, right?

The Combides, right?

To enforce these policies.

To enforce these policies.

Wait, so he was pitting the poor peasants against the more successful ones.

Wait, so he was pitting the poor peasants against the more successful ones.

Talk about a recipe for disaster.

Talk about a recipe for disaster.

Which only provoked more peasant revolts.

Which only provoked more peasant revolts.

But the damage was already done.

But the damage was already done.

It's starting to feel like a horror movie where the monster is not some external threat, but the revolution itself.

It's starting to feel like a horror movie where the monster is not some external threat, but the revolution itself.

It's like this inherent tendency toward authoritarianism.

It's like this inherent tendency toward authoritarianism.

Daked into the very DNA of the Marxist state as Lenin envisioned it.

Daked into the very DNA of the Marxist state as Lenin envisioned it.

But hold on a sec. Didn't the Bolsheviks actually abolish the death penalty initially?

But hold on a sec. Didn't the Bolsheviks actually abolish the death penalty initially?