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Chaired the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) from 1925 to 1933 and ran for president in 1925 and 1932, aligned with Stalin. He branded the Social Democrats "social fascists". Arrested by the Nazis in 1933, he was shot at Buchenwald in 1944.
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Ernst Thälmann leans further toward irreligious than 98% of the 749 personalities in the catalog.
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On Structure, Ernst Thälmann sits close to the catalog median.
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Final stage theorized by Marx and Engels: a classless, stateless society without private ownership of the means of production, with collective production and distribution according to need, superseding capitalism and the transitional socialist phase.
Revolutionary branch of Marxism that advocates the seizure of power by a vanguard party and the dictatorship of the proletariat, with a planned economy and collectivization, serving as the foundation of the communist regimes of the 20th century.
Current of Trotsky, co-founder of the Soviet state and the Red Army, which defends permanent revolution, a vanguard party and the dictatorship of the proletariat, criticizing Stalinist bureaucracy without renouncing one-party rule.
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Anarcho-ConservatismLibertarian26%
A Bolshevik leader, Zinoviev chaired the Communist International from 1919 to 1926 and led the party in Leningrad. An ally of Stalin against Trotsky after Lenin’s death, he was later convicted in a show trial and executed during the Great Purge.
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A single-party socialist state in the Caribbean, Cuba maintains a planned economy, strong state control, and universal public services, with power centralized since the revolution led by Fidel Castro in 1959.
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Ruled by Fidel Castro from 1959 to 2008, Cuba became a one-party socialist state, with a nationalized economy, universal health and education, a Soviet alliance, repression of dissidents, mass exile and confrontation with the United States, from the embargo to the missile crisis.
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