This, plus he was very focused on industrializing and the workers of Russia, key communism features. Although, the Communist Manifesto states to discourage religion but encourage free speech, neither of which he did.I think he was a true believer in the cause of communism.
He wasn't exactly a mobster or Caucasus Al Capone who joined the party for opportunism in his early years. He actually rob banks of the Tsarist state because he was a communist.
I just use this as example.
Later. He was smart enough and it the right place and in the right time.
Lenin dies and he is in the 'Center', being put in a better position than the Right faction of people like Bukharin and the Left faction of people like Trotsky.
I love the idea of the Dutch lifting some of their cities, mostly because Amsterdam one meter higher would likely make the city the tallest point in most of the country, and I find that hilarious.Frivolous: Are there any big seaside, riverside or lakeside cities globally that are good candidates for Chicago-style vertical uplifting in the 20th century in some AH? I'm thinking that besides the various cities of the Netherlands, something like that could maybe happen in Houston, Manila, Miami Beach, Venice or Wuhan but that's purely because they have opportunities for financial booms.
Was it possible to create a mix of welded and cast tanks? For example a cast turret to get a complex shape like T55 or IS3 for example but hull is welded? Or are there some inherent weaknesses to this combination?
Alot of tanks that were cast were not done so in a single piece, so welding was used on a majority of cast tanks. And I do think things like cast turrets were used before cast hulls.Some versions of Sherman and Churchill were built this way.
PRC post 1976 is fine if you are not an oppositionist or a millionaire/bilionaire.Places with rule of law that aren't democracies or republics? Rule of law is typically connected to democracies or republics, but not always?
The Wehrmacht gets prosecuted more for its crimes, making the clean Wehrmacht myth much harder to back up and also removing some of the memoirs from the generals and officers that make them and the Wehrmacht look way better than they actually did.AHC: no Wehrabooism