think about it tho. stalin castro lenin trotsky ho chin mihn mao kim il sung

Naw, Monarchies were even more powerful, and they remained for a much longer time than Communist dictatorships. The USSR fell apart after only 69 years, while the Russian Empire lasted for 196 years.

they were more oppressive tho

No they weren't

The Soviet Union under Stalin killed more people than Hitler did.

still they were undeveloped and would often have famines

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excess_mortality_in_the_Soviet_Union_under_Joseph_Stalin#:~:text=In%202011%2C%20after%20assessing%20twenty,American%20historian%20William%20D.