just like every other country
No.
It is hard to understand for you grown up in your culture but Russian civilization and Chinese too by the way is based on long term relations...longer than century.
For example when Russian empire colonized eastern regions those nations became and still are equal citizens of Russia, a lot of schools, hospitals and others were built while those nations kept their way of living, language, traditions...
When Russians dealt to Indians in western coast of Northern America they never had conflicts to them unlike Brits and french.
When Soviet Union took territories of Azerbaijan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Georgia and others those territories were heavily donated. Infrastructure and industry was built, local population got educated and they got opportunities to study and work anywhere in the USSR.
While your culture has examples of hard exploitation and genocide - India, China, Africa, American Indians
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Stalin wasn't corrupt---he didn't murder many people
and Lenin is one of the most deadliest dictators also!! # 21
Brezhnev # 18
Nicholas II # 6!!!
Stalin #4!!!!!!!!!!!
Russia is so much better..........???!!!!????!!!!!????
equal---by murdering them...........???!!!
25 of History's Deadliest Dictators
so many Russians
sure--the US has so many problems
and where is the USSR now?
Stalin wasn't corrupt at all.
When he died all his belongings were his clothes in a small room. All his life he tried his best to make USSR better and he succeeded. Agreecultural with illiterate population ruined by 4 years of civil war country in early 1920s he industrialized it to the level of leading countries, 90% of population were learnt to read and count, science raised significantly, economy was raising until Khrushchev came.
As for those who were prisoner or executed while his time, let's remember what kind of time it was. Civil war and intervention were just over, a lot of those who wish to harm new Soviet state - both in the country and outside. Than ww2 with numerous traitors who believed Hitler would help them to get rid of bolsheviks.
Speaking about those times let's remind American history - what was done to Japanese in 1940s just for their Japanese look. How many people were prisoner and executed in 1950s in fight to communism..
Lenin was much more dictator than Stalin.
Brezhnev wasn't dictator at all.
You don't mention Khrushchev while he was the worst among them. There are many documents showing Stalin's refusal to sign prisoning or executing of lists given by Khrushchev...he even signed once "stop your sick nature idiot" at one of his lists.
Nikolai 2 wasn't dictator, he was a weak tsar who couldn't control those who opposed him and lost throne and life as a result. If he was dictator he would keep both. I blame Nikolai for his weakness and infirmity as they caused ruining of a great country which lost best people as a result and had to raise for half a century.
All your judgments are too one sided as you get information from antirussian propagandistic sources.