No it was not better than the Tsar. The Tsar was a tyrant, but most of Russia's royal families were rational leaders brought up from birth to lead and did not invoke ordinary common day terror against their own people. If you were a rabble rouser or led a rebellion, yes the Tsar's army would crush you but no way was it compared to the Soviet era when normal everyday people minding their own business would get spied on or worse sent to the gulags for such frivolous things as making a joke or a jab at the soviet leadership at work. Also, the Tsar would never have dared labeled their prisoners of war as traitors like Stalin did and send away a million war veterans to labour camps. Stalin was a paranoid, mentally ill monster.
It's not as if the quality of literature is proportionate to the quality of life...PS Sputnik and lots of cool art and architecture came out of the Soviet Union. Not that it was a great country or anything...
Closed AccountMar 9, 2008
No it was not better than the Tsar. The Tsar was a tyrant, but most of Russia's royal families were rational leaders brought up from birth to lead and did not invoke ordinary common day terror against their own people. If you were a rabble rouser or led a rebellion, yes the Tsar's army would crush you but no way was it compared to the Soviet era when normal everyday people minding their own business would get spied on or worse sent to the gulags for such frivolous things as making a joke or a jab at the soviet leadership at work. Also, the Tsar would never have dared labeled their prisoners of war as traitors like Stalin did and send away a million war veterans to labour camps. Stalin was a paranoid, mentally ill monster.
Closed AccountMar 10, 2008
In Soviet Russia, Lenin byes you... :-) Please bury..
firepoweredMar 10, 2008
That is why the Bolsheviks renamed themselves the CPSU? Communist Party of teh Soviet Union....
zimmermansMar 10, 2008
It's not as if the quality of literature is proportionate to the quality of life...PS Sputnik and lots of cool art and architecture came out of the Soviet Union. Not that it was a great country or anything...
babywookieMar 11, 2008
He was. He didn't get the name Nicholas "The Bloody" for nothing. In fact, he got it for machine-gunning thousands of peaceful demonstrators in 1905.
babywookieMar 11, 2008
You are wrong. There were plently of great Soviet writers, composers, artists, movie directors, etc.
babywookieMar 11, 2008
Wow. What a bunch of baseless, propagandistic BS.
babywookieMar 11, 2008
A dismanted statue of Lenin? Really? Welcome to 1991, bitches.