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   lainy (lain@lain.com)'s status on Sunday, 13-Apr-2025 05:40:47 JST lainy
   after reading through a few books on commie russia recently, i'm really puzzled by lavrentiy beria. apparently he was a comic book level pervert and monster. stalin himself feared him enough to become panicked when his daughter was alone with him.
   
   but after stalin's death, beria was the man of the hour for a few weeks. and he tried to completely dismantle communism. he tried to reestablish the market. he freed a million people from the gulags.
   
   So even if he was a monster, would he have been better than what the world actually got?
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     new me new me (lebronjames75@shitposter.world)'s status on Sunday, 13-Apr-2025 06:05:17 JST new me new me

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     @lain i consider him to be an opportunist from start to finish with his ungraceful death, killed by the very machine he helped build and maintain in a twist of irony. he imprisoned and killed million(s?), and 20 some years later released SOME who were still alive from all the purges. nothing gracious, nothing non-monstery, simply he did the worst of what was the maximum allowed and possible at whatever timeperiod. he is a representation, among hundreds of thousands, of the great machine of death, a cult follower in a cult made of the most evil and vile parts of mankind.
     
     a machine that was on a self-destruct sequence either through the death of the leader, or through over-killing its own population. any redemption of such a high-level participant could only be believed if through his own hand he had murdered stalin. even if he wasnt a cartoon level pervert nor horrible man.
     
     I think he was desperately trying to save face when he realized the old most-brutal regime's handbrake was pulled more suddenly than he expected. side note of interest: he only released people with less than 5 years of imprisonment in the gulag. most crime had a short gulag sentence, below 5 years. Political dissidence though, was usually much longer, and included permanent loss of rights as a human after release ('wolf's ticket', which is an interesting term that i like. today it's with the meaning of "bad luck charm, do not interact")
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     lainy (lain@lain.com)'s status on Sunday, 13-Apr-2025 06:07:44 JST lainy

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     @lebronjames75 that's all true, but then his fellow monsters killed him and kept on doing the monster stuff for 40 more years. i'm not doubting that he was guilty beyond redemption (well, in the human sense), but if he had won, would have freed more just out of opportunism? become a convert to the market out of opportunism?
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     new me new me (lebronjames75@shitposter.world)'s status on Sunday, 13-Apr-2025 07:14:14 JST new me new me

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     @lain i dont think the opportunity for such a twist was able to appear during his lifetime, had he lived another 20-30 years. symbolically, i think he represented evil too much already, his death as a symbol was a built in prerequisite is what i believe. to change the generation's mind, he had to die first. alongside others. stalin's death was a start to such a completion of a prerequisite, and i consider the continuation of deaths of his entire cabinet to be necessary as well to turn towards a capitalist-dictatorship of sorts.
     
     maybe i see it too much through an artsy fartsy PoV, where people's minds must be emotionally manipulated enough to believe in a new status quo's possibility before it can be enacted; maybe all it takes is just a good Stalin 2.0 to twist it into an alternate version of the dictatorship that there was.
     
     with these two contradicting beliefs of mine simultaneously in mind i give a tldr answer:
     
     tldr: doubt it's possibility greatly, rather a no. but cant rule it out to be impossible.
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