Conveniently ignores all the totalitarianism of the Bolshevists.
except the Bolshevik revolution hadn't devolved into totalitarianism by 1919
Except for forcibly overthrowing an elected government, imprisoning rivals, creating the Cheka etc.
Meh, not a Lenin fan but this is a pretty dumb argument. The Provisional Government was collapsing by the October revolution, the Bolsheviks were able to take over despite being small in numbers because virtually nobody supported the Kerensky government at that point (since the election, the war that the government had decided to continue was clearly going disastrously and the economy had collapsed) and the Bolsheviks were the most organized of all the opposition forces. The latter two are true but the country was in full civil war at this point, everyone was slaughtering their opponents, which doesn't justify it necessarily but doesn't fit into this "evul bolsheviks" meme.
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