Was Lenin a liberator or oppressor in the Russian Revolution?

Answer 1

An oppressor, absolutely and flatly. The difficulties of life and the limits of political expression under the Tsarist regime were as nothing to the horrors of communism. Consider the fact that Adolph Hitler was a great admirer of the way Lenin got things done and modeled much of the Third Reich's terror apparatus after what Lenin and Stalin had created in Russia. A liberator, undoubtedly. He freed the people of Russia from a cruel and unpopular regime and replaced it with a state on its way to the freest society ever conceived by man, communism. A liberator because when he came to power he took Russia out of WW1 and spread the wealth of the kingdom and other rich people Although the majority of Russians was still starving this new country gave people hope and sometimes that is all you need