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Has there ever been a communist leader who wasn't a terrible tyrant?
Posted on 9/9/25 at 8:41 am
Posted on 9/9/25 at 8:41 am
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Posted on 9/9/25 at 8:42 am to UFFan
Gorbachev?
Posted on 9/9/25 at 8:43 am to UFFan
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terrible tyrant
Stalin was pretty good at being a tyrant.
Posted on 9/9/25 at 8:44 am to UFFan
Salvador Allende (Chile)
Posted on 9/9/25 at 8:44 am to UFFan
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Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
-C.S. Lewis
Posted on 9/9/25 at 8:46 am to UFFan
Plenty of people praised Fidel Castro
Posted on 9/9/25 at 8:46 am to SallysHuman
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Salvador Allende
Nationalized everything and seized private businesses
Id call that a tyrant
Pinochet saved Chile
This post was edited on 9/9/25 at 8:47 am
Posted on 9/9/25 at 8:46 am to UFFan
Communist and tyrant go together like cheese and crackers
Posted on 9/9/25 at 8:46 am to bad93ex
Is Putin terrible?
Posted on 9/9/25 at 8:47 am to bad93ex
Eh, Fidel's cult is loud, but I don't think it's actually very numerous.
Posted on 9/9/25 at 8:47 am to UFFan
Arguably Yugoslavia’s Josip Broz Tito, but like with Jesus or any other historical figure, not everyone agrees. Some view him as a benevolent dictator who built a socialist empire in the middle of divided Europe, but others complain he was an authoritarian who used political oppression to forge the image of a peaceful country even though folks were deeply divided.
Posted on 9/9/25 at 8:48 am to UFFan
No, not as far as what the media has told us.
Posted on 9/9/25 at 8:48 am to Cosmo
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Nationalized everything and seized private businesses Id call that a tyrant
Just going by what google pulled up...
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Record: His government implemented socialist policies democratically and is widely remembered for its efforts to improve the lives of the working class. His presidency ended in a military coup, backed by the U.S., during which he died. While his administration was not tyrannical, he never had the opportunity to consolidate authoritarian power like many other communist leaders.
Having only wielded power for about three years might be why he didn't get more tyrannical.
Posted on 9/9/25 at 8:49 am to UFFan
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Eh, Fidel's cult is loud, but I don't think it's actually very numerous.
He was the bee's knees with the beatniks
Posted on 9/9/25 at 8:51 am to UFFan
No, but that doesn’t stop the purple haired weirdos and soy boys from wanting communism in America
Posted on 9/9/25 at 8:52 am to TheRouxGuru
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No, but that doesn’t stop the purple haired weirdos and soy boys from wanting communism in America
This time it will work!
Posted on 9/9/25 at 8:52 am to UFFan
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Has there ever been a communist leader who wasn't a terrible tyrant?
Communism, by its nature, cannot exist as a ruling party without suppression of all political opposition.
Posted on 9/9/25 at 8:53 am to Potchafa
quote:apparently not, he got the red carpet treatment.
Is Putin terrible?
Posted on 9/9/25 at 8:55 am to Potchafa
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Is Putin terrible?
He’s not a communist.
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