Reply #41: A revolutionary who became a corrupt dictator.

[noonwitch]

As many communist revolutionaries have done, he found power too addictive once he achieved it, and abused it.

The main problem with communism is that once the revolution is over and the people have to get back to making their country work, the utopian philosophy that fired the revolutionary fever doesn't hold up to the realities of trying to run a free and equal country. When the economic theories of communism fail, the people start to get antsy. Then the newly appointed/elected leaders crack down on freedoms to keep the people in line, and you end up with a regime that locks up dissidents, stops it's citizens from travel and guns them down when they gather to protest.

Communist leaders then end up being as bad as the facist leaders that they overthrew.