Opinion: The 1917 revolution of the year was not socialist, but terrorist

Exactly 100 years ago, a terrible experiment that had no analogues in world history began on our land, the consequences of which we are still overcoming today - the great October socialist revolution took place in St. Petersburg. But the revolution turned out to be not socialist, but terrorist.

The power was seized by the communist party of Vladimir Lenin, which proclaimed the power of terror as its goals, which denied all human and citizen rights, which declared a person to be state property, and denied religion, nationality and individuality of a person. The imposition of this power turned into rivers of blood and millions of victims, the terrible scrapping of the psyche of many generations, the suspension of social and social development in a vast territory.

The first victim of the October Revolution was moral:

“- So you can rob the loot?

- Aren’t you robbing?

- So you can kill innocent people?

- Don’t you kill?

- So you can shoot for praying?

- Do you believe?

- So, you can betray Russia, like Judas?

- Aren’t you betraying?

- Fine. Let be. I rob, I kill, I don’t believe, I betray. But I ask, is this possible?

She firmly says:

- Can.

- In the name of what?

“In the name of brotherhood, equality and freedom... In the name of a new world...”

Boris Savinkov, “The Black Horse”

Many of our main troubles, because of which we are extremely slow to update - the atomization of society, the complete loss of the cultural and intellectual elite, the loss of traditions and moral values, the suppression of the national spirit, contempt for human rights - all this is the result of a terrible and inhumane political experiment, the purpose of which was the political struggle of a group of inhuman and unprincipled power-hungers.

In an interview with the American journalist Steffens, Lenin spoke frankly: “Terror serves what it should serve... We must find some way to get rid of the bourgeoisie, the upper classes. They will not allow us to make any economic changes that they would not have made before the revolution, so they must be kicked out of here. I myself don’t see how we can scare them so that they get out of Russia without mass executions. Of course, they will pose the same threat while abroad, but emigrants are not as harmful. The only solution I see is for the threat of the Red Terror to spread the terror and force them to flee. No matter how it is done, it must be done...”

But after the “upper classes” were destroyed, the death scythe did not stop. At first, enemies were killed without trial. Then they killed the opposition. Then they killed the critics. Then they killed the dissatisfied. Then they killed the “bourgeois”. Then they killed the “kulaks”. And they ended up killing random people according to orders, when it was necessary to fulfill a month-long plan to catch spies who did not have time to shoot.

The regime that came to power is called communist. But it is not exactly. Ideology was, in fact, a simple screen for the Leninists, with which they tried to cover up lawlessness and lawlessness. They didn’t believe in God or the devil, and they didn’t give a damn about all the ideologies of the world either. This was a cover and justification for terror. Lenin was not a communist - he was a terrorist.

The same as Putin now. Who now calls modern Russia the “Russian world” - but this is a lie, the Russian world was destroyed by Lenin 100 years ago. And now Putin is trying to force everyone under the modern artificially invented nation of “Russians” - the Caucasus, the Far East, and Ukraine. “Putin’s ideology” is simply a screen for political technologies and the seizure of power over as large a territory as possible. Everything was done as was done by Putin’s predecessors - Lenin and Stalin.

Modern Ukraine continues to fight against Putin’s terrorism in the same way as millions of Ukrainians, declared “kulaks”, “Makhnovists”, “bandits”, “Banderists”, “fascists”, “Nazis”, fought against the Red Terror...

Everything that is happening now in Ukraine is an attempt to overcome the monstrous civilizational and cultural gap that formed as a result of the complete dehumanization of the state and terror, which paralyzed societies for many decades.

Our project - the Ukraine project - is a response to the Bolshevik and misanthropic tradition, the bearer of which is the current Russian Federation.

And we are waging war, we have made the Revolution of Dignity in order to permanently banish the October Revolution of Terror from our lives. So that the state will never again be the apparatus of mass terror and the destruction of its citizens, that the nation should develop freely, to revive an independent culture, to make human rights make sense.

It is not enough for us to defeat the Russian Federation - we need to defeat everything that lives in us and in our society, that has been implanted over the last 100 years. To return meanings and values, to turn everyone together on the path of development and evolution.

And for the sake of evolution, we will not forget what was started 100 years ago. For me, October 1917 is these poems “Civil War” by the brilliant Maximilian Voloshin:

Some rebelled from the subfields,
From references, factories, mines,
Poisoned by dark will
And the bitter smoke of cities.

Others from the military
Noble ruined nests,
Where they spent on the churchyard
Fathers and brothers slain.

In one hitherto not gone out
Hop immemorial fires,
And he lives steppe, dissolute spirit
And Razin, and Kudeyarov.

In others, devoid of all roots,
The pernicious spirit of the capital Neva:
Tolstoy and Chekhov, Dostoevsky -
Tear and unrest of our days.

Some put up on posters
Its nonsense about bourgeois evil,
About the bright proletariat,
Meshchansky paradise on earth ...

In others, all color, all rot of empires,
All the gold, all the dust of ideas,
The glitter of all the great fetishes
And all scientific superstitions.

Alone go free
Moscow and restrain Russia,
Others, unleashed the element,
They want to re-create the whole world.

In those and others, the war breathed
Anger, greed, gloomy hop binge,

And after the heroes and leaders
Stealing predator greedy pack,
To the power of Russia boundless
Unlock and sell to enemies:

To rot her wheat piles,
Dishonor her heaven
Eat wealth, burn forests
And suck the sea and ore.

And the crash of battles does not cease
Across the expanses of the southern steppe
Among the golden splendor
Horses trampled.

And here and there between the rows
The same voice sounds:
“Whoever is not for us is against us.
There is no indifferent: the truth is with us. "

And I stand alone between them
In roaring flames and smoke
And with all their strength
I pray for those and for others.

The original column is published on Facebook page Yuri Butusov.

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