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My history isn't up to knowing who Alexander Kerensky is I'm afraid!
Malenkov is a huge figure in Human history. He basically singlehandedly started the civil war, and led the forces that won it in the end.
Then he pretty much single handedly destroyed the Empire that he'd just saved. Then he saved Humanity from splintering into a hundred
different factions.
He was also an absolutely unpleasant, unlikeable, rude, difficult, cast-iron bastard of a man who drove himself and his men HARD, expected
perfection, and woe unto you if you didn't deliver it.
Some day I'll write his story...
Malenkov is a huge figure in Human history. He basically singlehandedly started the civil war, and led the forces that won it in the end.
Then he pretty much single handedly destroyed the Empire that he'd just saved. Then he saved Humanity from splintering into a hundred
different factions.
He was also an absolutely unpleasant, unlikeable, rude, difficult, cast-iron bastard of a man who drove himself and his men HARD, expected
perfection, and woe unto you if you didn't deliver it.
Some day I'll write his story...
Give a man a fire, and you keep him warm for a day. SET a man on fire, and you will keep him warm for the rest of his life...
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After the fall of the tsars, and before the rise of the Marxists, Kerensky was a Russian general who stepped in, unwillingly, to fill the void in the Russian government with a rather advanced socialist model. His government only lasted a few months.
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as Bull offed Custer
I got the high gloss luster
I'll massacre your ass as fast
as Bull offed Custer
- Graham Kennedy
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Well then yeah, Malenkov was a somewhat more successful version of him. But Malenkov was never the President of the Republic; that
idea would horrify him. All he really wanted was to avoid a bloodbath.
idea would horrify him. All he really wanted was to avoid a bloodbath.
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It's interesting to me that in all great stories of this sort, whether fiction or fact, no matter what the scenario or technology involved it usually comes down to the efforts of one or more individuals to decide the matter.
I can't stand nothing dull
I got the high gloss luster
I'll massacre your ass as fast
as Bull offed Custer
I got the high gloss luster
I'll massacre your ass as fast
as Bull offed Custer
- Graham Kennedy
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There was a quote in the West Wing once, something along the lines of "Why would you think one determined person could change the world?" - "Because it's the only thing that ever has."
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The details may be different, but in terms of motivation to avoid unnecessary loss of life, and in taking command of the armed forces, Malenkov sounds more similar to George Monck than Kerensky.
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True, but that desire to form a stable government, but not lead it, is still more reminisent of Monck's role in the rRestoration - he could have used his regiment to seize power had proclaim himself Protector, but instead he invited back Charles II.
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