📚 Hayo just finished reading Lenin the Dictator by Victor Sebestyen

Nevermind the blurb. Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov was a horrible person. Probably on the autistic spectrum too. A man grown up in privilege, spending his mothers money in pursuit of 'the ultimate idea'. He rarely got ideas from experiences, instead everything was gleaned from books, giving him extreme tunnel vision. He came to power in a crazy sequence of events that should never have happened, and could barely cope with the weight of work when he got to create his communist state. His booksmarts killed millions, probably without him even realising. This book is well written, and does it very best to dig a few levels deeper than various propaganda sources.

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🔗 https://hayobethlehem.nl/library/book/lenin-the-dictator-cb6dac

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