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== Legacy == | == Legacy == | ||
Combining — in the expression of Engels — | Combining — in the expression of Engels — “Robespierre and Napoleon in one person”, Cromwell played a progressive role, overthrowing the old rotten absolutist order. In a conversation with GD Wells, Comrade Stalin said: “Remember the history of England in the 17th century. Didn't many say that the old social order had rotted away? Perhaps, nevertheless, but it took Cromwell to finish it off by force? ". The activity of Cromwell in recent years has been of a narrow-class nature, being entirely subordinated to the interests of the big bourgeoisie and the landowners associated with it. Having seized power in the form of the dictatorship of Cromwell, the English bourgeoisie attacked democracy with repressions, which in the end led it itself to an inevitable compromise with the defeated feudal aristocracy. | ||
[[Category:History of England]] | [[Category:History of England]] | ||
[[Category:Rulers of England]] | [[Category:Rulers of England]] | ||
[[Category:Military leaders during the English Civil War]] | [[Category:Military leaders during the English Civil War]] | ||
[[Category:Genocide perpetrators]] | [[Category:Genocide perpetrators]] | ||