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chiefly, i believe, because of the rabid hatred of the ruling plutocracy for the fundamental premise of communism. western media were relentlessly aghast at the barbarian antics of the communists.
it's worth remembering that the soviet union began under attack from the west and were always conscious of the need for military parity to survive.
considering the abrogations of citizen rights that bush/cheney pushed under the relatively exiguous threat of angry islam, it is not amazing that lenin accepted dictatorship as necessary to survival.
