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There's nothing less acceptable to The Will Of The People than losing an election! (lemmy.world)

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[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 63 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Explanation: The Bolsheviks gained power through a coup in Russia to create the Soviet Union, whereas in the free elections that actually happened, they didn't even get a quarter of the vote

[–] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 36 points 1 year ago

also the governance in Ukraine that Lenin desperately wanted to crush was anarcho-communist (called by most Ukrainians anarchism because communism as a term has been so heavily associated with the real bad times)