re: #92 Dark_Falcon

Stalin succeeded Lenin to power, and Kim Jong-Il succeeded his father. Chiang Kai-Shek’s Kumintang government had been badly destabilized by the Japanese invasion of China (and the KMT had no small amount of evil in it), Castro overthrew Bastista (who was fairly evil, just not horrifically so) and Hitler’s becoming chancellor in Germany was the result of political maneuvering, not a popular uprising. Only in the cases of Idi Amin, Qaddafi, and Pol Pot was a really non-evil regime overthrown and only in the first two cases was it stable (the Lon Nol government was under intense Communist pressure right from the start).

i just finished the fascinating biography Young Stalin

in 1917, the different factions, that is mostly kerensky vs the soviets vs the bolsheviks, allied themselves with and manipulated various armed military units, but in the end it was not really arms or gunplay that brought down kerensky and installed lenin