Is the Soviet Union a totalitarian country?

Answer 1

cause thats how they roled

he overthrew kerensky's provisional government with the bolsheviks

Answer 2

Yes. In fact, throughout the 20th century, the Soviet Union was a gruesome Dictatorship governed by a communist regime that imposed totalitarian aims. Lenin's bloody civil war from 1917-1922 was known to have brought famine and disease to the Russian people while the Bolsheviks managed to establish their secret police called the "Checka" to get rid of bouigeous sympathizers. Anti-Bolshevik rebellions such as the Green movement, the Kronstadt Rebellion, the White Russian Army, and the Revolutionary Insurrection Army of Ukraine were eventually crushed by the red Army led by Leon Trotsky while the Poles drove out the invading Russians in order to protect their independence during the Soviet-Polish War. Marx denounced private property in favor of what would become known as collectivism, in which Stalin supported in his theory of "Socialism in One Country", thereby banning landownership and replacing the New Economy Policy presented by Lenin (which asked for "state capitalism" and would have upset Marx if he lived long enough to see Lenin in Moscow) with a centralized command economy. While promising a workers' utopia that tends to be classless and moneyless, it was actually a mere dilussion that justifies the absolute control of the Soviet Union's civilian population by the Communist Party with the KGB as the secret police and the Red Army as the USSR's official war machine.

Furthermore, after Stalin seized power in 1922 as General Secretary of the Soviet Central Committee, he began to imprison millions of innocent people while industrializing the state. He eventually became a paranoid fanatic who would execute and remove anyone who opposed him and used the Communist ideology of Stalinism to achieve that end, representing itself as a form of Communism at its most hideous and carnivorous state. His Great Purge tactics brought fear into the Russian people and in time, Stalin enforced economic policies that eventually led to the Ukraine famine upon the peasantry of Russia with a total of 7.5 million deaths total. Trotsky himself became a victim when he was assassinated in Mexico in 1940. Science was under strict ideological control by Stalin and the Christians were being rounded up and killed prior to the invasion of Russia by Nazi Germany.

However, not all totalitarian states in history were communist. Examples of non-communist totalitarian states included Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, Iran, and Zimbabwe. Nevertheless, Communism is considered a totalitarian ideology. A Communist would often make a claim that the Soviet Union was not communism, declaring that "true communism" was never "implemented", while seeking to persuade the individual or a group into denying the horrors and genocide committed by the regimes that promoted the ideology. Such claims of denouncing the USSR and Maoist China as "true communist states" serve as a form of deception that denies the acceptance of communism's defeat by the United States and its Allies by the end of the Cold War in 1989. Indeed, it is most likely that no matter how they would try to change one's view about Communism, the Communists themselves would still find no place to hide from history, which reveals the truth of how the practice of the ideology and its non-existant philosophy of a "workers' utopia" have both lead to the deaths of millions.

Answer 3

yes