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The Sovs were actually quite intricate in setting up blackmail, threats, hostage situations, leveraging useful idiots, making it an offense NOT to inform, etc etc etc. And the way they made Soviet society work, there wasn't the freedom of movement or association that espionage benefits from in non-totalitarian countries.
Chavez basically immediately went all-in in 1999 on hollowing out Venezuela's institutions and replacing all positions of power with his cronies.
I think you give too much credit to Trotsky and Lenin. They were both very big on the Bolshevik single-party state being run via terror.
I read up a little bit more. I think you are right and I will have to abandon my pet theory. Oh well. It was a fun theory.
It was far from an absurd thought! Allied intelligence during WW2, for example, considered that an assassination attempt against Hitler might be counterproductive because they considered Hitler more a handicap to the Nazis than a help.
Yeah it’s interesting how many people seem to think that Lenin and Trotsky were the good guys and things would have been so different if Stalin hadn’t risen to power.
Almost all of the terrible things Stalin did were started by the earlier Bolshevik leaders. They were all blood-soaked tyrants. The difference is that Stalin perfected their methods.