Russian Revolution

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If Trotsky had won, his insistence on spreading the revolution would probably have led to the Societ War being pushed into more wars they were unable to cope with. That plus his aggressive stance against the peasantry, could have lead to far more instability within the USSR and less chance of WWII being won.

I think Trotsky was a more interesting mind than Stalin, but he couldn't have held the USSR together.

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WI: Whites

Reactionary.

Why is saying "reactionary" meant to carry the weight of an insult? It's no more objectively good or bad than "conservative", "radical", or "liberal".

A conservative wants to keep things as they are while reactionaries want to return to a past that rarely is as good as they imagine it to have been and even more rarely is the actual past.

So in other words, the Republican Party is not in any way a conservative party.

Reagan and Thatcher rather corrupted the term "conservative".