trotsky, zinoviev, kamenev, consider them among the leninist guard, bearing in mind lenin’s fierce conflictstime, by the way, it was not zenoviev and kamenev who demanded to be expelled from the party stalin, and lenin in 1917, stalin then rather took a conciliatory position, fifth: lenin fought against great russian chauvinism, hated russians, and stalin turned his ideology towards russian sovereignty. both lenin and stalin, creating a huge centralized state, at the rhetorical level, trampled on great russian chauvinism, and, while having one elementary goal, they had to lure hundreds of spreading nations into the country. there was no time for expensive and difficult persuasion, therefore, the simplest thesis has been put forward: we will no longer allow the black hundreds, great russian chauvinists and xenophobes of all stripes to humiliate your peoples, in our soviet state everyone will be equal, there was no time for long and complex persuasion, hundreds of nations responded , they believed if lenin and stalin were short-sighted politicians, or, say, ancient jews, obsessed with the idea