But what he's saying may be what people need to hear so I didn't object
Lenin gives up and someone else takes his place - there was a whole cohesive band there ready for someone to use it to take power - someone would have.
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Germany was on the brink of going commie in that period and it didn't. The bolsheviks had this as their plan. It was an unstable period, an unstable state where things could have gone either way.
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If the Bolsheviks had been replaced with a different group with slightly different ideology and tactics it's possible that Russia would have been like Germany. Small changes can have huge impacts.
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Sometimes I wish we had insight into history's data generating process. It's tough to make calls when we're missing all the counterfactuals.
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