>>13092952He hijacked a movement, crushed very people who had helped defeat the White Russians, and put himself into the leadership position where he dictated now mostly worthless books. He liked to strut around with this fisherman’s cap to seem more folksy, but he was an ivory tower intellectual. Bourgeois to the core.
The people industrialized. Lenin let a sociopath succeed him. The foundation of the Revolution, same as the American and French Revolutions, where rotten from the start.
But that’s because all states are rotten