Posted on 07/18/2006 2:32:50 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
Explaining the monumental failure of the Soviet system and empire, Gen. Dmitri Volkogonov, a former official Soviet military historian, stressed that "the roots of the catastrophe lay in the ideology itself, in Leninism."
All told, the "catastrophe" of attempting to impose a Marxist-Leninist utopia in the Soviet Union resulted in the deaths of as many as 25 million people, according to recently released and hitherto inaccessible Soviet archives -- a death toll that was the direct consequence of centrally planned massacres, mass deportations, labor camps, torture and famine. ...
Within months of his rise to power, Lenin provided the definition of "revolutionary justice" to a workers' assembly: "If the masses do not rise up spontaneously, none of this will lead to anything. For as long as we fail to treat speculators the way they deserve --- with a bullet in the head --- we will not get anywhere."
The targets of this "justice" included shopkeepers, landlords, non-Bolshevik newspapers, non-Bolshevik political parties, the clergy, "counter-revolutionary" civil servants, intellectuals, "aristocrats," industrial strikers and malingering "pseudoworkers," entrepreneurs, gun owners, craftsmen, "bourgeois specialists," landowners, and, most especially, "money grubbing" kulaks, i.e., better-off peasants.
Simply stated, Lenin's "bullet in the head" form of "justice" was the officially prescribed punishment for any person "belonging to a hostile social class."
On Aug. 10, 1918, for instance, Lenin telegrammed instructions for dealing with kulaks who were expressing opposition to having their harvests confiscated by the government: "You must make an example of these people: (1) Hang (I mean hang publicly, so that people see it) at least 100 kulaks, rich bastards, and known bloodsuckers. (2) Publish their names. (3) Seize all their grain. P.S. Find tougher people."
By the time it was over, the Soviet Union's "tougher" enforcers had killed millions...
(Excerpt) Read more at pittsburghlive.com ...
And the Times would rather ignore the subject.
The paradox of Russian History. I am a general, former Supreme Commander of Russian forces, and I wanted Kerensky to execute the bolsheviki. Kerensky demoted me and because of Kerensky's incompetance, I raised an army and marched on Petrograd. WHO AM I?!
"The unabashed love expressed there for Communism can be quite sickening at times."
Communism or any other kind of totalitarianism sickening. It usually attract the most thuggish types as their foot soldiers.
General Nikolai Dukhonin?
Been awhile since I read about that.
They killed all the disciplined people and were left with a bunch of lunatics in control... Lenin being the chief of them all... what do "we" expect.
And Dems and liberals are trying to pull the same crap by destroying the traditional family and embracing the gays.
The coming wars will not compete on territorial nor on economic gains, but on who has the "religion" which will dominate in terms of discipline.
Good Guess, but, no. I'll give you a hint. There is a picture of this great Russian General hoisting Kerensky on his back. The picture was taken at the Bolshoi in July of 1917. Another hint, liberals and leftists love to heap scorn on him for his march on Petrograd. It is believed that Kerensky panicked when he heard about the generals intention and released all the bolsheviks from prison so they could help the Provisional Government defend itself. Kerensky handed the keys to the kremlin to the bolsheviks, just like that. What a maroon.
Molitov?
Socialism is founded on three sins: Lies, Coveting and Theft.
Kto?
Never pass up an opportunity to slam these facts into the face of Democrat. It's the only way, in the long run, to win America back.
Brusilov came to mind first, but I seem to recall him sitting on the sidelines.
Kornilov. Only one I can think of.
And when Kerensky let the Bolsheviks loose, they promised to help. They did help... but not Kerensky. They defended the city against Kornilov, but did not fight Kerensky. Didn't they bring about the mutiny of the troops under Kornilov?
Make that "did not fight for Kerensky"
N.Korea is the modern starving memorial to Lenin/Stalin and our presidents Clinton decided to give them nukes. Something that not even the Soviets were willing to do.
It looks like we have a winner!! Kornilov is correct.
The Kossack Kornilov. Is it any wonder that the Cossacks abandoned Kerensky after he had their "hetman" sacked as Supreme Commander and then had him arrested? That's one of the untold stories of the coup of 1917 that brought the bolsheviks to power.
What....Kto?
... Or a made-member of The Party.
It was the Mob --- on a very large scale.
What is shto and Who is kto in Russian that is.
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