Stupid... It's what's for dinner.
Posted on 01/01/2018 12:31:58 AM PST by a little elbow grease
As America begins preparations for Sunday’s New Year’s Eve festivities, some might be celebrating another holiday — that of the formation of the Soviet Union. The USSR, established Dec. 30, 1922, by Vladimir Lenin, was born out of the same needless bloodshed that would later define it.
Five years prior in 1917, the Bolshevik Revolution began, sparking a civil war that would leave millions dead, many by sheer acts of murder committed by competing factions.
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“With a rising number of Americans (and a large plurality of millennials) looking at socialism favorably, an annual history lesson can hopefully convince them otherwise.”
Then the Soviet Union became NON-communist.
However China did not. China is now communist.
So Russia isn’t, yet we are here wailing about Russia, while China becomes ever stronger, we buy everything from them, and they become ever, ever stronger.
While they are communist.
Who should be pay attention to?
For all their talk about the amoral, soulless West, Russia has done very little to repudiate their Soviet past. It is no longer a socialist state, but it is nostalgic for the “great power” stature the Soviet auspices lent them.
They will still defend the “good intent” behind the communist vision. It has been to their great detriment as a country and a disservice to our world.
The USSR, established Dec. 30, 1922, by Vladimir Lenin, was born out of the same needless bloodshed that would later define it.
Five years prior in 1917, the Bolshevik Revolution began, sparking a civil war that would leave millions dead, many by sheer acts of murder committed by competing factions.
Things didn’t get much better once the Soviet republic was finally established.
Cba, Russia may not be socialist...but it is less economically free and much poorer/less dynamic than China because it expends so much money and energy trying to re create the “great power” stature of the Soviet Union. Look at the energy they’ve spent solidifying their grip on the Middle East via alliance with Syria, Turkey, and of course Iran...
Putin has called the collapse of the Soviet Union the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the 20th century.
He has also said that Josef Stalin is excessively demonized by the West as a way to weaken Russia.
Today’s pigressive would call that a program to make every citizen a loved and wanted citizen.
The big lie among socialist sympathizers in the West is that the “initial vision was betrayed”...Trotsky died to soon...Stalin failed the movement etc...
The root and heart of the communist ideology as laid out by Marx/Engels et al. is precisely the problem though:
It is a vision of reality without God and without acknowledgment of the reality of human sinfulness and man’s debt and accountability to the divine.
For the American founders, original sin was precisely the basis for why human governments exist in the first place. And the fallenness of man precludes the possibility of utopia on earth.
We have governments because we are imperfect people in an imperfect world. Power therefore corrupts and must be checked and balanced.
There is a theological grounding in Adam Smith’s views on capitalism also. The phrase “Wealth of Nations” is itself taken from the Old Testament book of Isaiah.
Capitalism takes into account the reality of human nature. But it must be tempered by human virtue and charity. Smith did not advocate for social Darwinism, which is based on godless premise of evolution as Marxism is.
“” “The big lie among socialist sympathizers in the West is that the “initial vision was betrayed”...Trotsky died to soon...Stalin failed the movement etc...” “”
Trotskites are alive and well in the West. They are called Democrats now.
I think you are sleeping about things.
Russia is NOT the Soviet Union.
China however, is becoming more threatening by the day. Every day. Yet we as a country are COMPLETELY sold out to them.
The Soviets went away. The Chinese communists, are still there. Getting ever stronger.
Stupid... It's what's for dinner.
Freedom is stronger. As is shown by our great President and by the likes of the protesters in Iran...eventually, something’s gotta give. And though it may take awhile, good will win out.
Plus China is still more dependent on us than vice versa.
Stalin alone ordered the deaths of over 69,000,000 during his rein.
I really do not agree with you, on that claim.
At all.
China makes everything, anymore.
L8r
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great analysis
We have chosen to kill 60,000,000+ American children in the womb.
“A nation that kills its own children is a nation without hope.”
Saint Pope John II
As a result of reading about George Orwell who was supporting the communists in Spain until he was labeled a Trotskyist and rejected causing him to write Animal Farm, 1984 and several other books examining the communist betrayal, I have developed an interest in the history of the Russian Revolution.
I find it interesting that in 1917 Lenin embraced the Jews, including Leon Trotsky to defeat the the Tsarist autocracy, and then turned on the Jews and betrayed them under Stalin a few years later.
Vladimir Lenin and Trotsky were close both ideologically and personally during the Russian Revolution and its aftermath and some call Trotsky its “co-leader”. Trotsky was the paramount leader of the Soviet Red Army in the direct aftermath of the Revolutionary period. Trotsky originally opposed some aspects of Leninism, but he concluded that unity between the Mensheviks and Bolsheviks was impossible and joined the Bolsheviks. Trotsky played a leading role with Lenin in the revolution. Assessing Trotsky, Lenin wrote: “Trotsky long ago said that unification is impossible. Trotsky understood this and from that time on there has been no better Bolshevik”.
Then along came Stalin. Unlike Trotsky who was Jewish, Stalin was anti-religion.
Trotsky was critical of Stalin, as he oppose Stalin’s theory of socialism in one country in favor of the Trotsky’s theory of permanent revolution. Trotskyists also criticize the bureaucracy that developed in the Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin.
Under Stalin’s orders, Trotsky was removed from power (October 1927), expelled from the Communist Party (November 1927), exiled first to Alma-Ata (January 1928), then from the Soviet Union (February 1929). As the head of the Fourth International, Trotsky continued from exile to oppose the Stalinist bureaucracy in the Soviet Union. On 20 August 1940, Trotsky was assassinated by Ramón Mercader, a Spanish-born NKVD agent in Mexico.
In 1940, “Jacques Mornard” was convicted of murder and sentenced to 20 years in prison by the Sixth Criminal Court of Mexico. His true identity as Ramón Mercader was eventually confirmed by the Venona project. Shortly after the assassination, Joseph Stalin presented Mercader’s mother Caridad with the Order of Lenin for her part in the operation.
After the first few years in prison, Mercader requested to be released on parole, but the request was denied by the Mexican authorities, represented by Dr. Jesús Siordia and the criminologist Alfonso Quiroz Cuarón. After almost 20 years in prison, he was released from Mexico City’s Palacio de Lecumberri prison on 6 May 1960 and he moved to Havana, Cuba, where Fidel Castro’s new revolutionary government welcomed him.
In 1961, Mercader moved to the Soviet Union and was subsequently presented with the country’s highest decoration, Hero of the Soviet Union, by the head of the KGB Alexander Shelepin personally. He divided his time between Cuba and the Soviet Union for the rest of his life.
True history is far better than fiction.
What I find most interesting is that in today’s environment, the Jews are for the most part very liberal and do not see how they were betrayed by attachment to this ideology in the past.
The Jews today as liberal Democrats are repeating the same mistakes they made during the Russian Revolution. History is repeating itself.
Trotsky’s betrayal is a lesson the Jews should learn from.
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