Memes

According to the journalist Sennen Andriamirado, who wrote two early books on Sankara, the Burkinabè leader believed that “Stalin killed Leninism by stifling the soviets and making all-powerful the Cheka [secret police], the military,” and other repressive bodies.

Hmm, I wonder if protecting the socialist leadership was a factor in this. Too bad he got assassinated, proving that using state power to oppose the reactionary forces is critically important in a nascent socialist state.

Why don't you just come out and admit you only like leftist leaders who get killed before they can do much, that's clearly what you think

The majority of people who lived in Eastern European socialism regret its fall.

For example, Thomas Sankara was an actual decent person

That's cool that being nice is the ceiling of revolutionary possibility in your brutally constrained mind, but the Chinese Communists did this: