Name 1 (one) Russian leader who wasn't a complete asshole

ANDROPOV!

Nicky was most chill Tsar ever.

Stalin

He fucked up the Japanese war as well.

But not an asshole

What country that lost to Russia are you guys from, it is pitiful that you can't accept strong country with strong leadership as your opponent

the one that came after catherine the great

How exactly is Putin a complete asshole?

Cathrine II

ivan just stop they don't pay you enough to do this

>actually born in Russia

he was too pure for his time

Gorbatschow

Fuck da commeeez, Nicholas dindu nuffin' fbrisbxvr (incomprehensible sub-human noises)

Rurik

Alexander III
Putin

Gorbachev

What is Stephen Fry doing in that photo?

Gorbachew

>Peter the Great wasn't an asshole
He tortured and killed his own son and made divisions of children fight for his own amusement. He was a great guy and all, but he was an asshole.

Also, Brezjnev

Well that's just pathetic

>be a nice guy
>invades Czechoslovakia and installs hardliner
Try again.

>be a nice guy
>don't invade Czechoslovakia
Yes, you can invade other countries and not be an asshole

Not when you oust their elected officials and break up their liberal movement. They just wanted reform. Instead they got an iron fist and tanks.

Good.

In all honesty, he was a bit of an asshole, but in the grand schema of Russian leaders he wasn't the worst.

Aleksandr Suvorov was a pretty cool guy

This guy definitely does not sound like an asshole. Actually, he sounds more like a monk than a political leader.

youtube.com/watch?v=2bcmGnygysU

Gorbachev. The guy genuinely seemed to want to end the Cold War, and took huge political risks trying to work things out with Reagan.

CORN FATHER

Who /revisionist/ here

Gorbachev for sure, I dont think the Cold War would have ended so relatively peacefully were it not for him being willing to concede so much ground. His one mistake was not breaking character and shooting that drunk Yeltsin while he had a chance.
incompetent ruler but was a good guy personally

Did someone say revisionist here?

Goodboy

Forgot the pic

>Rurik
>Russian
Good meme

He was surprisingly decent and had a good plan.

Then... then Stalin came...

Lol at all these plebs who think the Communist USSR is the same thing as Russia

Get in faggot, we're killing germans and hopefully avoid getting raped by mongols

He wasn't cut out for ruling, but he was a genuinely good dude and recognized that he embodied the state and thus should think of the state first no matter what.

Indeed he was a rus'.

Literally kys if you seriously believe Stalin did anything wrong

He's the reason they're even called Russians, you cuck.

The impression I get from this pic is that it's producer was a Stalinist and thinks Gorbachev is gulag-worthy, not that Gorbachev was a good guy

Gorbachev was gulagworthy

Gulag is far too merciful a punishment for Gorby

>Gorbachev for sure
one of the most corrupt men in russian history?

I want to say krushev but he was so clueless he genuinely believed not liking communism was a mental illness

All of them are better than the limp-wristed limp-dicked western "leaders".

>but in the grand schema of Russian leaders he wasn't the worst
I can't dispute that. It's not even close. That's not saying a whole lot though. Other than the Mongols, Aztecs, and Assyrians, name one nation/country/empire that has had more asshole rulers than Russia. I'm excluding those three because they constantly try to be dicks, which puts them in a category all their own.

Not liking Stalin is literally a mental illness. The only cure is bullets.

Not to mention a faggot. Most of his court was filled with fags just like the Bourbons in pre-Revolutionary France.

This so much.

Here we go.

This guy can't be an asshole, right?

Look at this faggots stupid fucking face

T H I C C
Also, I could be wrong, not knowing much of Russian history pre 1917 though.

>forcing men who live in the snow to shave their beards
Pretty dickish, but as far as Russian rulers go, she's great.