[vkou]

> Solzhenitsyn claims that a little resistance would have completely disabled the Russian Communists.

The Russian civil war lasted six years, was a bit more than 'a little resistance', killed ten million people, and it didn't quite achieve the desired effect.

If anything, it grew and encouraged the winners' paranoia, and put them on a permanent war footing.

[andy_ppp]

Unlike other autocracies who I find tend to be pretty chill?

[vkou]

Inter-war Russia was its own insane level of purges and paranoia, that put most run-of-the-mill autocrats to shame.