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Pre-Lenin Russia was really fucked, but Lenin didn't end wealth inequality, just changed who had the wealth.
People insisting he was perfect and he can't be criticized will never stop reminding me of modern American neoliberals.
Like, yeah Karen. Lenin was better than the Tzar, but that doesn't mean we can't ask for any more progress over 200 fucking years.
But to get back on topic of press freedoms:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_in_the_Soviet_Union
It is unfair to lay that on Lenin, as it was Stalin that consolidated and bureaucratized soviet government against Lenin’s wishes as Lenin fell ill. While Bolsheviks most certainly did loot and pillage like bandits and barbarians during both the revolution and civil war, that was never a part of Lenin’s vision or goals. See Lenin’s Testament, which he essentially dictated from his death bed in a last ditch attempt to rescue his vision from Stalin’s dictatorial takeover. Unfortunately, Stalin suppressed the testament and it would not be seen again until years after Lenin’s death… and then only privately among party elite.
Interesting, but he did set the precedent of using state power to enforce his vision even when the people disagreed. This eventually snowballed into Stalin which was nowhere near what Lenin wanted, but when you use power like that bad actors will take over eventually and ultimately he is still to blame for that.