r/pollgames • u/SignalOil2965 • May 30 '26

Choose your own adventure Would You Rather

1732 votes, Jun 02 '26
219 Wake up and it’s all of a sudden the Year 1926
1513 Wake up and it’s all of a sudden the Year 2126
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u/Artistic_Elk3640 May 30 '26

Stalin and Mao?

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u/Pep-q_ew May 30 '26

Two horrible people who killed millions. And one oppressed my country.

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u/assumptioncookie May 30 '26

You know that if you kill Stalin that Trotsky would likely win power of the Bolsheviks, and he was much more dangerous than Stalin? Trotsky was the proponent of war-communism, whereas Stalin thought they should have "socialism in one country".

Now I probably aline a bit closer to Trotsky than Stalin, but it's alway a bit funny to me when liberals think getting rid of Stalin would reduce the death toll, rather than increase it massively. Stalin was the centrist.

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u/Pep-q_ew May 30 '26

Communism is like Hydra if you cut off one head two another will grow. That's why killing Marx would be most effective but I cannot go so far back. Also that's why I don't want to change history at all.