Who is the greatest leader Russia has had

[Vetalia]

No love for Khrushchev...

[Geilinor]

Peter the Great, he modernized Russia and made it an empire.

[Anglo-California]

Catherine had a nice rack according to Civilization Revolution.

[Faustin Land]

Abraham Lincoln. Oh wait, wrong country.

[OMGeverynameistaken]

No love for Khrushchev...

Hindsight and the fact that the Aral Sea is basically gone tends to cast a poor light on his "lets grow cotton and wheat in central asia" policy.

[Pandeeria]

I'm staring to realize how shitty and shitter Russia has always been, and it's leaders are another example.

[Great Kleomentia]

Peter would be it.

[Maldovania]

I'm staring to realize how shitty and shitter Russia has always been, and it's leaders are another example.

And here we have another person that known nothing about Russia.

[San Lumen]

Catherine the Great. If Russia was still a monarchy it would be a lot better off. The Anti Gay law would have probably never passed.

[The Nuclear Fist]

I'm a big Ivan the Terrible fan, though Khrushchev is my favorite Russian (though in his case Soviet) leader.

[Lyttenburg]

Catherine the Great. If Russia was still a monarchy it would be a lot better off. The Anti Gay law would have probably never passed.

Because gay rights are more important then universal literacy, improved healthcare, industrialization, space program, free health care and education, accessible housing, improved roads, abolition of privileges, etc, etc, etc? Glad to see that Westernes can set their priorities straight.

[United Marxist Nations]

Catherine had a nice rack according to Civilization Revolution.

Huehuehuehueuehuehuehue

[United States Kingdom]

http://rt.com/politics/brezhnev-stalin- ... oviet-638/

[Insaeldor]

For me it's a tie between Peter the Great and Georgy Yevgenyevich Lvov.

[Sebastianbourg]

Peter the Great in my opinion.

[Infected Mushroom]

Putin. He's been doing a great job with the Russian economy, is making Russia strong again, and seems to be very skilled at real politics and foreign relations.

[Luremurg]

Vladimir Putin

[Old Tyrannia]

Catherine the Great. If Russia was still a monarchy it would be a lot better off. The Anti Gay law would have probably never passed.

Because gay rights are more important then universal literacy, improved healthcare, industrialization, space program, free health care and education, accessible housing, improved roads, abolishon of priveleges, etc, etc, etc? Glad to see that Westernes can set their priorities straight.

None of those things required the Revolution to occur. Russia's literacy rate was already rising prior to Nicholas II's deposition, and the industrialisation that the USSR is so often praised for had already began under the Tsars. Free healthcare didn't exist in most of the world at the time, and space travel would have seemed impossibly futuristic and far off in the 1910s. There is no reason why Imperial Russia, had it survived the First World War, couldn't have gone on to accomplish all of those things, except perhaps "abolishion [sic] of privilege" which I assume is a snipe at the aristocracy.

And San Lumen isn't entirely wrong- the Imperial Government was quite tolerant of homosexuality, although male-male sodomy was technically illegal and the Imperial position of tolerance didn't quite filter down to the general population. Catherine the Great, as it happens, was an advocate of "enlightened absolutism" and homosexuality was legal under her rule, though sodomy was forbidden within the military from Peter the Great's reign onwards.

[The Sanguinian Islands]

Because gay rights are more important then universal literacy, improved healthcare, industrialization, space program, free health care and education, accessible housing, improved roads, abolishon of priveleges, etc, etc, etc? Glad to see that Westernes can set their priorities straight.

None of those things required the Revolution to occur. Russia's literacy rate was already rising prior to Nicholas II's deposition, and the industrialisation that the USSR is so often praised for had already began under the Tsars. Free healthcare didn't exist in most of the world at the time, and space travel would have seemed impossibly futuristic and far off in the 1910s. There is no reason why Imperial Russia, had it survived the First World War, couldn't have gone on to accomplish all of those things, except perhaps "abolishion [sic] of privilege" which I assume is a snipe at the aristocracy.

And San Lumen isn't entirely wrong- the Imperial Government was quite tolerant of homosexuality, although male-male sodomy was technically illegal and the Imperial position of tolerance didn't quite filter down to the general population. Catherine the Great, as it happens, was an advocate of "enlightened absolutism" and homosexuality was legal under her rule, though sodomy was forbidden within the military from Peter the Great's reign onwards.

BUT WHY DOES IT MATTER?

Without Soviets I would not be studying in America, I would be farming potatoes and would have had 5 kids by now

[Roski]

Catherine the Great. If Russia was still a monarchy it would be a lot better off. The Anti Gay law would have probably never passed.

Because gay rights are more important then universal literacy, improved healthcare, industrialization, space program, free health care and education, accessible housing, improved roads, abolition of privileges, etc, etc, etc? Glad to see that Westernes can set their priorities straight.

Lyttens got a point.

[Commonwealth of Hank the Cat]

Oh, here we go with the Vladimir Putin supporters...

But, to answer the question, it was the one that created the dissolution of the Soviet Union. I think he saved the World with that action.

[Bolnoa]

Khrushchev is always the best in my opinion.

[Austinarya]

Vladimir Putin, Russia was a powerful country before it was ruined by those Communists, Putin is making it great again

[Roski]

Oh, here we go with the Vladimir Putin supporters...

But, to answer the question, it was the one that created the dissolution of the Soviet Union. I think he saved the World with that action.

Yes, the guy who spun Russia into major economic issues and believed the SDI would be a thing is the best thing for Russia

[Old Tyrannia]

None of those things required the Revolution to occur. Russia's literacy rate was already rising prior to Nicholas II's deposition, and the industrialisation that the USSR is so often praised for had already began under the Tsars. Free healthcare didn't exist in most of the world at the time, and space travel would have seemed impossibly futuristic and far off in the 1910s. There is no reason why Imperial Russia, had it survived the First World War, couldn't have gone on to accomplish all of those things, except perhaps "abolishion [sic] of privilege" which I assume is a snipe at the aristocracy.

And San Lumen isn't entirely wrong- the Imperial Government was quite tolerant of homosexuality, although male-male sodomy was technically illegal and the Imperial position of tolerance didn't quite filter down to the general population. Catherine the Great, as it happens, was an advocate of "enlightened absolutism" and homosexuality was legal under her rule, though sodomy was forbidden within the military from Peter the Great's reign onwards.

BUT WHY DOES IT MATTER?

Without Soviets I would not be studying in America, I would be farming potatoes and would have had 5 kids by now

1) I'm pretty sure that not being sent to the gulags to freeze to death because you're gay is pretty important to, you know, gay people.
2) I'm guessing from your second comment that you never actually bothered to read my post in full before replying to it.
3) What, exactly, is wrong with farming potatoes?