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Originally Posted by daswig
So the Soviet Union didn't hold "elections"? Really? Are you SURE you want to say that? How about Iraq? They periodically held elections. Last election, I heard Saddam got 103% of the vote.
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Yes I am sure. And no, the Soviet Union did not hold democratic elections.
In 1919 Stalin was appointmented a full member of the Politburo. The same year he was nominated people's commissar for state control and then in 1920 served as people's commissar for workers' and peasants' inspection. In 1922 he was appointed as the party secretariat in the capacity of General Secretary. Initially he allied himself with Bukharin and Zinoviev these were sidelined and eventually executed during the great purges of the 1930's
Trotsky, his other great rival, was also murdered.
Elections paid no part in it.
If you want to quote historical precendents from Russia and Cambodia (or Kampuchea) at least get your facts straight.
Mr Mephisto