Your Favourite Soviet Leader
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Topic: Your Favourite Soviet Leader
Posted By: Paul
Subject: Your Favourite Soviet Leader
Date Posted: 26-Jul-2005 at 10:49
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Mine's Brezhnev, he really put fear into the west like no soviet leader before of after. ------------- Light blue touch paper and stand well back http://www.maquahuitl.co.uk - http://www.maquahuitl.co.uk http://www.toltecitztli.co.uk - http://www.toltecitztli.co.uk |
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Posted By: Decebal
Date Posted: 26-Jul-2005 at 11:04
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Where's Mikhail Gorbachov? ------------- What is history but a fable agreed upon? Napoleon Bonaparte Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.- Mohandas Gandhi 
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Posted By: Thegeneral
Date Posted: 26-Jul-2005 at 11:09
Favorite Soviet leader? Sounds like an oxymoron to me!  ------------- 
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Posted By: Constantine XI
Date Posted: 26-Jul-2005 at 12:16
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Trotsky, followed by Bukharin. ------------- |
Posted By: gcle2003
Date Posted: 26-Jul-2005 at 12:39
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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 By: Constantine XI
Date Posted: 26-Jul-2005 at 12:42
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Its spelt Gorbachev, but pronounced Gorbachov.
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Posted By: Tobodai
Date Posted: 26-Jul-2005 at 12:50
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Kruschev, a fiery showman and risk taker. He also denounced Stalin, which is good. ------------- "the people are nothing but a great beast... I have learned to hold popular opinion of no value." -Alexander Hamilton |
Posted By: Komnenos
Date Posted: 26-Jul-2005 at 12:52
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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. 
Nestor Machno ------------- [IMG]http://i71.photobucket.com/albums/i137/komnenos/crosses1.jpg"> |
Posted By: Kalevipoeg
Date Posted: 26-Jul-2005 at 14:53
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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. ------------- There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible than a man in the depths of an ether binge... |
Posted By: rider
Date Posted: 26-Jul-2005 at 15:01
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Agreed. And from our point of view, it is Hruštšov, I believe.. kind of funny.
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Posted By: Bilge_Kagan
Date Posted: 26-Jul-2005 at 17:32
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Gorbachev ! ( and i hate Stalin very much......in fact, i hate Soviets i think ------------- Ey Turk budunu ! Sozumu iþit ! Saglamca dinle ! Ustte Gok Basmasa. Altta Yer Delinmese Ilini Toreni Kim Bozabilir ? Titre ve Kendine gel ! Bilge Kagan |
)Posted By: Paul
Date Posted: 26-Jul-2005 at 19:27
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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. ------------- Light blue touch paper and stand well back http://www.maquahuitl.co.uk - http://www.maquahuitl.co.uk http://www.toltecitztli.co.uk - http://www.toltecitztli.co.uk |
Posted By: Belisarius
Date Posted: 26-Jul-2005 at 20:46
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I like Khruschev. Beating a podium with your shoe is just so cool.
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Posted By: Spartakus
Date Posted: 27-Jul-2005 at 05:42
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Lenin ,Khruchev and Gorbachev. ------------- "There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them. " --- Joseph Alexandrovitch Brodsky, 1991, Russian-American poet, b. St. Petersburg and exiled 1972 (1940-1996) |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 27-Jul-2005 at 09:31
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Lenin...
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Posted By: ill_teknique
Date Posted: 27-Jul-2005 at 12:29
| Josip Broz Tito lol |
Posted By: Scytho-Sarmatian
Date 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. |
Posted By: mord
Date Posted: 29-Jul-2005 at 10:21
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Nikita "The Shoe" Khrushchev. At least he was entertaining. Mord. ------------- errr...left turn at vinland? |