Favorite Communist leader poll

[Byzantine Prince]

Let's see if I can fit the biggest(or most important) ones on here.


For me it's Tito(Josip Broz). Close second is Stalin, because he was so silly.

[ICantSpellDawg]

i dont know why, but i just love pol pot
hes so cuddley

[Somebody Else]

Fidel - he's kept Cuba together, despite American attempts at causing havoc. A charismatic leader that will probably be irreplacable.

[Al Khalifah]

Stalin wasn't much of a Communist ruler. He may have claimed he was, but he was not. Someone who enforces such extreme state control and militarism is hardly a great communist.
Trotsky... if only he'd suceeded...

[Lazul]

Trotsky, if he only had succeded in getting power after Lenin things might have been different. Maybe Communism wouldnt have... gone straight to hell.
And he wasnt Mad, like Stalin so clearly was.

Edit: someone actually voted Pol Pot?....

[Drisos]

Stalin, because he beat the Nazi's.

I'll be greatful to him for that always, but

HE WAS SICK IN HIS HEAD. HE KILLED HALF OF HIS OWN PEOPLE

so I'm not sure I chose the right one

[Adrian II]

Mine would be Karl Marx. You forgot to include him in your list. Somehow I think that is not a coincidence.

[Lazul]

well was Marx really a "leader"? not in a political way atleast

[Meneldil]

Yay, and I think the next poll should be "Who was your favorite nazi leader ?"

I don't know some of them, but almost all the other managed to kill a whole lot of their own people. And I don't think Trostky would have been very different from Stalin. He was as militarist as Stalin, and he liked power at least as much as everyone else.

My vote would go for Gorbatchev, thanks to who the whole eastern block crumbled in Europe.

Oh, and most of them were just as bad as Pol Pot.

[RabidGibbon]

My votes for Ho Chi Minh, for invading Cambodia and kicking Pol Pot & his Khmer Rouge out of most of the country.

Not saying he was a clean cut hero, but at least he did one nice thing.

www.mekong.net/cambodia/jan7.htm

[Beirut]

Fidel!

I love the idea that a shmuck like him can defy and completely piss off nine consecutive American Presidents.

Fight the machine!

[Adrian II]

My votes for Ho Chi Minh, for invading Cambodia and kicking Pol Pot & his Khmer Rouge out of most of the country.

Except that Ho Chi Minh had been dead since 1969.

[JAG]

Mine would be Karl Marx. You forgot to include him in your list. Somehow I think that is not a coincidence.

Ditto.

Out of the ones given though it is Mr Castro.

[IliaDN]

Let's see if I can fit the biggest(or most important) ones on here.


For me it's Tito(Josip Broz). Close second is Stalin, because he was so silly.

I just don't understand how can you judge Stalin in such way , in my opinion it only shows your incompetence in this question.

[discovery1]

voted Stalin. Just love his methods.

[Kraxis]

Tito...

In a crowd of bad and worse he seems to at least have been only partially bad. And he did choose to stand outside the normal sphere of east-west, and the society was much more open. Also he managed to keep the various groups from killing each other, with harsh rules correctly, but much less harsh than most.

[RabidGibbon]

Except that Ho Chi Minh had been dead since 1969.

Ermmm... Whoops

[Redleg]

Whats next? Who is your favorite dictator? which is really what this thread is about also - most of the names listed are actually despots - who ruled under the communist banner.

So lets all decided that a mass murder is our favorite communist leader. Pick one - several on the list are responsible for the death of at least a million of their own countrymen.

[PanzerJaeger]

Mods- Would it be acceptable to post a "Your Favorite Nazi" thread?

If not then I see no reason why this is acceptable. Communism was 10 times worse than nazism and simply because some spoiled brats who have never lived under communist rule idolize it does not take away from its brutality and offensiveness.

[Adrian II]

Mods- Would it be acceptable to post a "Your Favorite Nazi" thread?

You mean dead ones?

[Templar Knight]

Live under the ones you have voted for - you might have a change of heart

[Franconicus]

Mine would be Karl Marx. You forgot to include him in your list. Somehow I think that is not a coincidence.

He was a philosopher, not a leader.

[Adrian II]

He was a philosopher, not a leader.

He didn't lead a country, but he led a movement together with others. Marx sat on the Council of the First International.

[Shadow]

I voted Mao Zedong

[Ser Clegane]

I am currently a bit busy with real life issues so I do not have the time to give detailed comments about the meaningfulness of this poll.

For the time being I expect everybody to behave in this thread

[LittleGrizzly]

out of the options castro

[Byzantine Prince]

Mods- Would it be acceptable to post a "Your Favorite Nazi" thread?

I don't see why you think you can't. The question is, would you really want to. You have many times said that you hate Nazis.

If not then I see no reason why this is acceptable. Communism was 10 times worse than nazism and simply because some spoiled brats who have never lived under communist rule idolize it does not take away from its brutality and offensiveness.

Whaaa? Don't assume people haven't lived under those regimes. I was born 1 year after the leader died and communism fell(1985) but that doesn't mean that a year later the whole country was free like America. Hell it was 99% communist until the early 90's.

[Redleg]

Whaaa? Don't assume people haven't lived under those regimes. I was born 1 year after the leader died and communism fell(1985) but that doesn't mean that a year later the whole country was free like America. Hell it was 99% communist until the early 90's.

And during all that time you were just a child - without an understanding of the politics or the society in which you lived. And now that you are in Canada - are you dreaming of going back to those same conditions that you experienced as a child. WHere you were primarily sheltered of the harsh realities by your parents. (Because this is what all parents attempt to do in their own way.)

[PanzerJaeger]

I just want you to be aware of the true history of communism and that making this poll means the same to many Eastern Europeans as making a poll about your favorite Nazi leader.

If you understand the men you are talking about and the feelings of those who had families slaughtered by them and you are fine with that then have fun. As I had family killed in soviet prison camps I wont be participating.

[JAG]

Oh get off your high horse, you have posted equally bad, if not worse, threads / polls.