User blog comment:IndigoOnIceCream/What Would They Think/@comment-1630894-20120331040751/@comment-1630894-20120404235756

There is no definite reason to think that Lenin and Trotsky would, as often proclaimed, have been "true" communists. Better than Stalin? Most likely. But unoppressive and totally Marxist in their actions as well as words? We cannot know. If Mao had died right before assuming power, and someone else had taken over from him, people would probably blame the successor for ruining Chinese communism.