Who was the Soviet Union's most inept leader?
Mikhail Kalinin must rank among all Soviet leaders as the most incompetent. For 24 years, including World War Two, he served as Soviet president, an office equal to that of the president in nations like Austria and Germany.
Lenin’s roster
Before the revolution, he began with Lenin. His fellow soldiers treated him similarly to how they treated Stalin: as a devoted but dimwitted subordinate. He used to be assigned a certain assignment simply because everyone else was so overworked.
One of Kalinin's greatest accomplishments was his appearance before the anti-Communist mutineers on March 1, 1921, at the navy base in Kronshdadt. He was greeted with cheers. But he was able to radically change everything in a couple of minutes. The people chanting "F*ck off to your wife, old guy!" chased him back to Petrograd (St. Petersburg).
Russian Santa
Even the enormous Soviet propaganda apparatus was unable to create a single tale of his brilliance or valour that people would remember. During the Great Purge, Kalinin's life may have really been saved by his complete incompetence. He was risk-free. Stalin was perfectly content to keep him on staff as a cheery Santa Claus for ceremonial purposes while paying him.
Stalin kidnapped his wife, the mother of his four children, and put her to a Gulag as a precaution. Kalinin made no effort to protect her. As a convicted anti-Soviet element, he refused to accept her back after she was released shortly after World War 2.
female enslavement
The thing about Kalinin that stood out the most was his "strong natural attraction to female attractiveness." It once got to the point where he sexually assaulted a 16-year-old girl at a government mansion outside of Moscow. The girl was revealed to be the daughter of a senior Soviet military officer. Stalin made the decision to have the commander put to death when given the option between Kalinin and the commander. He gave Kalinin the nickname "old goat". (Men above a certain age who speak Russian
aged goat (Men above a certain age who continue to exhibit a "strong natural attraction to feminine attractiveness" are referred to as "goats," not "pigs," in Russian.)
Military leaders like Voroshilov, Mikhail Kalinin, and Timoshenko helped establish the Soviet heritage of high-level mediocrity and incompetence. Immediately after Stalin's death, it began to spread. Rotation of Soviet elites on the basis of merit through violent purges came to an end. The murdered head of the Soviet secret service, Dzerzhinskiy, is seen in the photograph below being carried across the Red Square by Kalinin. He is the man in the front row with the glasses. Stalin and Trotsky accompany him.
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