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[–] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml -3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

The mechaviks literally wanted to continue ww1 and have a psuedo democracy where the bourgeoisie were literally guaranteed a majority of seats, wtf are you talking about?

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I wasn't aware of that. I was under the impression they were less extreme than the Bolsheviks, and didn't want to execute everyone that wasn't a hard core Bolshevik

[–] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml -4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

They were more extreme than the bolseviks but less extreme than the monarchists, they were just on the side of capitalists so were painted with a nicer brush by capitalist historians

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Gotcha, that explains why the sources I have read, showed them as favorable to the Menchaviks