and long before that, they should have challenged high-level party members to ensure ideological consistency and thereby weed out opportunists like Khrushchev
They should have allowed Stalin to step down when he wanted to. So he could act as a guide and mentor for the next leaders. Instead they worked him to death and then let Khrushchev step in and start fucking everything up.
Don’t do what Gorbachev did. Do what Deng Xiaoping did.
and long before that, they should have challenged high-level party members to ensure ideological consistency and thereby weed out opportunists like Khrushchev
They should have allowed Stalin to step down when he wanted to. So he could act as a guide and mentor for the next leaders. Instead they worked him to death and then let Khrushchev step in and start fucking everything up.