Large Bullfrog

One was an Anti-Stalin liberal, the other was a real OG revolutionary.

Well one reason a lot of the most ideologically dedicated communists were the first to die fighting the Nazis and the USSR was forced to lower their standards of who was let in order to win the war. China today by contrast has a massive population it can easily afford to cherry pick from. Another is the very chaotic manner in which the USSR emerged, trying to remove every impure individual and faction would of meant a longer civil war which couldn’t be afforded with Western powers on the doorstep, things needed to start getting rebuilt asap and to do that you eventually need to make peace and confederate with some less desirables, which there were plenty of given that the USSR had just emerged out of the reactionary remains of the Russian Empire.

Had me going “Oh for fucks sake, another color revolution? Really?” until I searched Laos in the news and didn’t see anything.

I’ll be real, I’m not really sure it’s appropriate to be asking people if their parties are “working to overthrow the government”. A newbie could theoretically come along, start giving out a bunch of specific information about their political party and then go on about how they have bombs stashed in their basements. I’m sure it doesn’t take much thinking to see why that would be a problem.