Posted on 06/10/2020 9:22:52 PM PDT by bitt
Agafangel Diomidovich had walked all over the city - Liteiny, Nevsky, and beyond - and had seen everything. People were on a rampage. There were no authortites left in all Petersburg. Go rob anyone you like. Fires, retribution, disorderly and foolish gunfire, people killed by stray bullets, too. And there was no sign of joy from what he'd seen.
"Oh, it'll be bad." And a pause: "No one is thinking about what they're doing." How, where did it start? Nelidov wanted to understand. "Just you try and not go striking," the host said. They'll poke your eyes out with a screw, even we're afraid of 'em. They're just a handful, but they're at the top of everything. The cheeky one gets the upper hand, that's how it always is. Hey, what they came up with - drove out all the authorities. As if you could live with out 'em.
Sound familiar?
...there’s no real excuse for treating the February Revolution as a footnote, let alone for allowing its opening phase to disappear from popular history, particularly since its other great contribution to the future was setting a modern precedent for violent regime change driven by popular protest. I’ll leave you to decide if that counts as an achievement.
http://poppycockww1.com/russia/8-march-1917-false-start/
Sound familiar? >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
A perfect replay.
What is happening in Seattle will not end well.
Specifically:
“Mass reinvention of memory isn’t a completely new phenomenon – I once blundered into redefining casualty figures for a Second World War battle by publishing an average of all the other figures quoted, and that was back in the 1980s – but the Net has been giving it some epidemic muscle. The seeds of this year’s ‘post-truth’ have been germinating on our devices for some time, looking like innocent mistakes of no great consequence but training us all to accept the idea that the loudest, most persistent voice is probably the one to believe.”
http://poppycockww1.com/russia/8-march-1917-false-start/
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