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With party unity, and thus the survival of the Soviet state, depending on the Stalinist bureaucracy, Stalin was the clear victor in the struggle for control. Stalin responded to them by sending Grigory Ordzhonikidze, who physically assaulted a Georgian comrade. Clearly, antifascists have been able to successfully use a diversity of tactics to keep fascism subdued in much of the area they work in. The Left Opposition stood primarily for the internal development of industry and for the international spread of the revolution, which would act as a means by achieving this development. However, the Russian communists continue to pose no real alternative in the polls, and Putin, however unpopular he may be, remains in power with increasingly authoritarian powers. Yeltsin's group, however, wanted these spoils to go to bureaucrats controlling the republican and municipal apparatuses as well as the technical and intellectual elites. Thus the resulting dictatorship of the proletariat was actually another elite rule like under the aristocracy, and even that soon degenerated into party-rule of a mere one or two percent. Most parties have renounced Stalinism, and many have released documents against their former Soviet masters. The national leaderships of the Kazakh, Uzbek, Georgian and Armenian Soviet Socialist Republics were accused after Brezhnev? |
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