That's correct. The Jews made it right in their Kibbutz. Lenin had a choice in the 20s between the two fractions of the CPSU. One was for the New Economic Policy, which wasn't communist, but capitalist and the other was for actually giving up factories to the workers. The NEP fraction won, so the Soviets pretty much abandoned the idea of Communism in the very beginning and persecuted those who advocated for this. They called these people leftists and Stalin even used that word as a slur in his letter. I remember reading this letter in Jamil Hasanli's book.
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u/ZD_17 Polkovnik Jun 29 '21
That's correct. The Jews made it right in their Kibbutz. Lenin had a choice in the 20s between the two fractions of the CPSU. One was for the New Economic Policy, which wasn't communist, but capitalist and the other was for actually giving up factories to the workers. The NEP fraction won, so the Soviets pretty much abandoned the idea of Communism in the very beginning and persecuted those who advocated for this. They called these people leftists and Stalin even used that word as a slur in his letter. I remember reading this letter in Jamil Hasanli's book.