Talk:Rasputin vs Stalin/@comment-179.208.133.13-20150820230743/@comment-99.250.36.121-20160604222917

Lenin was bad, but he's definitely a few shades above Stalin, not that such is supposed to be achievement. If nothing else, Lenin at least didn't have purges turn fatal...

I think it could be compared as Chiang-Kai Shiek (Jiang Jieshi) to Mao Zedong, with Mao being the Stalin to Chiang's Lenin. True, Chiang did some horrible things (Massacring civilians in Shanghai, having communists murdered, and putting all of Taiwan (and assorted islands) under martial law for decades, but that just doesn't compare to the horror and sheer incompetence of the Great Leap Forward, followed by the complete and utter shit that was the Cultural Revolution.

It got to the point where Mao's successor arrested Mao's wife, and his most loyal allies.