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[–] 9 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 child)

Stalin

His death led to the discovery of the horrors of Stalinism. A part of the leftist intelligentsia in the West saw communism for what it was, which considerably weakened Western communist parties, and ultimately brought the hegemony of neoliberalism. Also, the USSR was never as brutal with their population afterwards

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