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[–] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Stalin tried to resign 3 times and wasn't allowed to. Weird thing for a dictator to not be allowed to do.

[–] Gabu@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ignoring everything else wrong about your one sentence, a dictatorship needn't be helmed by a single person. Brazil was a dictatorship from the 60s to the 90s, and had 6 different presidents during that time.

[–] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Okay, what about the whole soviets and sharing power with trade unions thing? What about their innovations in participatory democracy. The USSR were hyperdemocratic, even on war footing, at least until destalinization happened and the bureaucracy started taking hold.