90 years of the Revolution
At 11pm November 6, 90 years ago, a tragedy, perpetuated by the few Bolsheviks funded by the Germans, occured in Petrograd. A blank shot by the cruiser "Aurora" announced that a very small number of the Bolshevik soldiers would disarm the guard at the Hermitage, arrest the ministers. The rest of Petrograd had no clue of what was happening at the moment, the trams were running as usual, Shaliapin was singing at the Narodnyi dom, John Reed, the author of the Ten Days That Shook the World, was having a nice dinner nearby.
Отношение народа к вождям и их монументам честнее всех выражают голуби.
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I like the commentary in Russian :)
ReplyDeleteWhen one thinks, however, of what this one shot led to - the bloodshed, the displacement of masses of people, the starvation which turned people into cannibals, into absolute monsters - it's quite terrifying! How can a small group of people affect the fate of so many coutries including mine (the history of Poland has been tragically affected by the bolsheviks). Mindblowing!
You're right, I overlooked the German factor. When bolshevism (by the way, I think it is still going strong in Russian politics)colluded with German isms, the results were always disastrous for Polska (Poland). I don't know how much you know about Polish history, but I could ennumerate lots of examples: Ribentropp-Molotov pact, as a result of which Nazi Germany attacked Poland on Sep. 1, (starting World War II) and bolshevik Russia attacked on Sep, 17 thus dividing the territory of Poland between themselves, the Warsaw Uprising, which levelled Warsaw and left it a heap of ruins, the postwar history, which isn't over yet etc. etc. We seometimes say that being between the two super powers is like being between the plague and cholera :)
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