Yeah, Lenin seized power by having all the soviets assassinated by bolsheviks after he lost an election to them. Then the USSR descended into widespread famine, surveillance, and state-sponsored massacres.

It's wild how many people still swear by marxist-leninism, as if "just try it one more time, this time it'll work, I swear!" Or even wilder "actually, widespread famine, surveillance, and monopolized violence in the USSR was good!"

And then they just smugly tell you to "read theory" because they assume you haven't already, because they can't imagine anyone would actually read it and think critically about it, since they sure as hell didn't...