1. Stalin
Lenin believed that until he obtained European support and the ensuing transition to a communist society was complete, laws were necessary "to suppress the resistance of classes hostile to the proletariat." This temporary law became a "dictatorship of the proletariat, and instructed his followers go use both corruption and the threat of general extermination" to ensure the authority of the temporary dictatorship. ... To preserve Socialist Stalinism as the only ideological school of thought, Stalin not only brutally suppressed local initiative and conceptual opposition, but also crusaded ag...
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