Bravenak is so boring. And he's not a racist. Islam and illegal immigrants are not races, and he admires and works with black people and all other races.. He's from NYC for God's sake.
Facts are racist. Racist! RACIST!
From "Ken Burch":
Before Stalin, there was at least the possibility of the Soviet Union NOT being a police state.
KB, unsurprisingly, doesn't know much about Soviet history (not that I'm anything like a scholar). The only reason the USSR went full Gulag under Stalin was that Lenin died in January, 1924. But the purges of the Socialist Revolutionary and Menshevik Parties (Marxian Socialist competitors of the Bolsheviks) happened under Lenin, and
the first Gulag, Solovki, was opened by Lenin's decree. That Lenin wasn't as much of a monster as Stalin turned out to be was lack of opportunity, not that Lenin was any less brutal. KB would have known better than to post that silly remark had he bothered to read Solzhenitsyn (specifically,
Gulag Archipelago).