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Topic: Your Favourite Soviet Leader 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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Posted: 26-Jul-2005 at 11:04 |
Where's Mikhail Gorbachov?
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Posted: 26-Jul-2005 at 11:09 |
Favorite Soviet leader? Sounds like an oxymoron to me!
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Posted: 26-Jul-2005 at 12:16 |
Trotsky, followed by Bukharin.
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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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Posted: 26-Jul-2005 at 12:42 |
Its spelt Gorbachev, but pronounced Gorbachov.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Posted: 26-Jul-2005 at 20:46 |
I like Khruschev. Beating a podium with your shoe is just so cool.
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Posted: 27-Jul-2005 at 05:42 |
Lenin ,Khruchev and Gorbachev.
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Posted: 27-Jul-2005 at 09:31 |
Lenin...
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Posted: 27-Jul-2005 at 12:29 |
Josip Broz Tito lol
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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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Posted: 29-Jul-2005 at 10:21 |
Nikita "The Shoe" Khrushchev. At least he was entertaining.
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errr...left turn at vinland?
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