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Your Favourite Soviet Leader

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Poll Question: Which leader of the Soviet Union do you like the best?
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    Posted: 26-Jul-2005 at 10:49
Mine's Brezhnev, he really put fear into the west like no soviet leader before of after.
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  Quote Decebal Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 26-Jul-2005 at 11:04
Where's Mikhail Gorbachov?
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  Quote Thegeneral Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 26-Jul-2005 at 11:09
Favorite Soviet leader?  Sounds like an oxymoron to me!
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  Quote Constantine XI Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 26-Jul-2005 at 12:16
Trotsky, followed by Bukharin.
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  Quote gcle2003 Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 26-Jul-2005 at 12:39

I also would have voted for Gorbachov. Who else?

Failing that, Andropov, since he was responsible for Gorbachev getting the job.

(Incidentally is that Gorbachov or Gorbachev?)

However I have to confess a sneaky liking for Khrushchev.

 

 



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  Quote Constantine XI Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 26-Jul-2005 at 12:42
Its spelt Gorbachev, but pronounced Gorbachov.
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  Quote Tobodai Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 26-Jul-2005 at 12:50
Kruschev, a fiery showman and risk taker.  He also denounced Stalin, which is good.

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  Quote Komnenos Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 26-Jul-2005 at 12:52
Lenin! After him, it went all downhill!

However, I'm not quite sure if he qualifies here, but my favourite political leader in the former Soviet Union was Nestor Machno, leader of the Anarchist peasant rebellion in the Ukraine in 1918, the "Machnowschina", that was inspired by the leading Russian Anarchists like Bakunin and Kropotkin.
Machno and his army controlled a large part of the Ukraine, socialised industry and agriculture and established Anarchist Communes after the example of the Paris Commune in 1871.
During the Civil War the "Machnowschina" was allied with Trotsky's Red Army in the fight against the "Whites".
After the war the "Machnowschina" fell victim to the Stalinists, the movement was surpressed and Machno went into exile in Paris, where he died in 1934.



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  Quote Kalevipoeg Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 26-Jul-2005 at 14:53
I voted Krustchev because he was so sincerely ignorant and if had he been in office a decade more, maybe he'd brought the collapse even closer then 1991.
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  Quote rider Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 26-Jul-2005 at 15:01
Agreed. And from our point of view, it is Hrutov, I believe.. kind of funny.
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  Quote Bilge_Kagan Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 26-Jul-2005 at 17:32

Gorbachev ! ( and i hate Stalin very much......in fact, i hate Soviets i think )

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  Quote Paul Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 26-Jul-2005 at 19:27

Where is Gorbachev?

 

Gorbachev has deliberately been ommited from this poll. This is a pro-soviet poll and vote for him could be used to express anti-soviet sentiment.

 

Nestor Machno, definately the hero of the Russian revolution and worth a post of his own, but sadly not a soviet leader.

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  Quote Belisarius Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 26-Jul-2005 at 20:46
I like Khruschev. Beating a podium with your shoe is just so cool.
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  Quote Spartakus Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 27-Jul-2005 at 05:42
Lenin ,Khruchev and Gorbachev.
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  Quote Guests Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 27-Jul-2005 at 09:31

Lenin...

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  Quote ill_teknique Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 27-Jul-2005 at 12:29
Josip Broz Tito lol
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  Quote Scytho-Sarmatian Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 28-Jul-2005 at 04:23
I voted for Kosygin because he started Detente with the West.  He was the most reasonable of the Soviet leaders, however I think they were all a pretty sorry bunch of characters.
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  Quote mord Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 29-Jul-2005 at 10:21

Nikita "The Shoe" Khrushchev.   At least he was entertaining.

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