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What Lenin and his crew did was Leninism. It included absolute authoritarian domination of mind and spirit. That is shared with many régimes before it and some since. Stalinism took over from Leninism and went ever further into absolute corruption. Not every dehumanizing sociopath who has acted similarly to these two men are associated with a collective societies. They and their acts are, nonetheless, always the product of collective effort. There is no organization much more communal than military service. All great destroyers enjoyed the total efforts of countless young men, working together for a common goal and often with little recompense. It is armed young men throughout history that have made history. This part of the population, in every age and almost every generation, is the one that imposes a government's will where it is not willingly embraced, and sometimes even where it is.