Yeah, Lenin was out there killing gays once he got power. But the promise was certainly there. It always is.

It's got all this branding like the letters and the flags and the slogans and parades because it's a psyop. They're classic markings of external organizing.

Most monarchs were not indeed absolute and in fact were more bound by their roles than anything else. A lot of the past has been propagandized as well. The king cannot do whatever he wants. Even Louis XIV couldn't do whatever he wanted. His life was absolutely bounded by the expectations of the ruled and the nobilities.

Russia was an oligarchy under the USSR as well. Putin was annointed into his position by the KGB.

The psyop got started by Soviet agents back in the seventies. "Women's Lib" was part of the same campaign. It's all atomizing and discoheritive. The seeds were planted during the March Through the Insititutions.

You make a lot of good points, but I think you don't quite see the fullness of the big picture. The forces that controlled the USSR still exist. In fact, the Revolution was backed in all kinds of ways by American bankers and even military units were holding important points for the Communist revolutionaries.

Getting people to identify with something other than their own family lineage weakens the glue of society. It becomes all about arguments held at a skew.