Lenin was a counterrevolutionary that brutally suppressed any dissent and directly placed Stalin (being well aware of what a person he was) in a position that would make his later takeover possible.
Lenin placed Stalin as an enforcer to do the dirty stuff for him. It would be very naive to assume Lenin didn’t know the risk involved of putting a former mob gangster in such a position.
Without taking any of the bad stuff from Lenin, from what I’ve read I know that by the end of his life he was not very fond of Stalin, and he was a little scared of Stalin was going to do with all the power. Not that Stalin’s alternative would’ve been a great guy…
Lenin was a counterrevolutionary that brutally suppressed any dissent and directly placed Stalin (being well aware of what a person he was) in a position that would make his later takeover possible.
Lenin did not place Stalin, stalin took over. Other than that, yes.
Lenin placed Stalin as an enforcer to do the dirty stuff for him. It would be very naive to assume Lenin didn’t know the risk involved of putting a former mob gangster in such a position.
Without taking any of the bad stuff from Lenin, from what I’ve read I know that by the end of his life he was not very fond of Stalin, and he was a little scared of Stalin was going to do with all the power. Not that Stalin’s alternative would’ve been a great guy…
Germany send Lenin from Switzerland to Russia, Lenin helped Germany in WW1, he wasn’t super smart.