The disaster of 1917. The myth of the Bolsheviks who killed old Russia
Mythologizing the revolution
The USSR created a myth in which the Bolsheviks defeated the tsarist regime. Then the heroic Red Commissars fought to the death with the White Guards, who, through terror, wanted to return the Tsar to the throne and shackle the people into slave shackles. Whites were helped by Western and Japanese interventionists. The White Army, the Black Baron are preparing the royal throne for us again.
Then the Democratic perestroikas came and began to promote their version. They say that the red degenerate commissars, lumpens, criminals and other rabble are to blame for everything. They destroyed the spiritually and materially developed beautiful Russia, massacred or forced to flee the noble nobility, intelligentsia, clergy and merchants. Peasants who also resisted the Red Terror were driven into slavery. Officers and cadets tried to resist, fought for faith, the Tsar and the Fatherland, but lost. The Bolshevik ghouls swept through Russia with fire and sword and turned it into ruins, a camp barracks. Russia has become a Soviet society that has been robbed and humiliated for 70 years.
There was also a radically patriotic version, born during the Civil War. They say that beautiful Russia was destroyed by insidious Jewish revolutionaries. Jews constituted the top of the Bolshevik Party, and enjoyed the support of international Zionists and Jewish capital.
cruel reality
In fact, all these myths are easily destroyed when you begin to study the real facts of the Russian Troubles. Thus, the Red Commissars, Red Guards, the proletariat and peasants have nothing to do with the destruction of the autocracy, the Russian Empire. The Tsarist regime was overthrown by the then elite - generals, members of the Duma, aristocrats and grand dukes, church hierarchs, bankers and other dignitaries. They dreamed of making Russia a sweet France or England. Get rid of the shackles of royal absolutism. And they opened Pandora's box.
Russian peasants fought fiercely with the white armies, created their own entire armies and, in fact, their uprisings and crushed the rear of Kolchak and Denikin. And when the Bolsheviks came with their orders and “war communism,” the “red partisans” immediately turned “green” and began to fight the Red Army.
The peasants, after the collapse of the sacred tsarist power, were not going to obey anyone at all and formed their own project of the people's freemen - a community of free cultivators, without taxes, conscription and other state violence. The Peasant War was one of the brightest, bloodiest pages of the Troubles. The desire of the peasant world for freedom, which was suppressed for centuries, almost killed the entire civilization and the state.
The biggest threat to the future of Russian civilization and the Russian state at that time was not even whites, as Soviet historiography presented, but various nationalists. It was the nationalists - Baltic, Finnish, Polish, Ukrainian, Caucasian, etc., who fielded the most numerous armies. They laid claim to vast territories of Russian lands proper. For example, the “Greater Finland” was going to include the Kola Peninsula, Karelia, the Vologda region and lands up to the Northern Urals. Russia was almost taken to its national apartments.
No one fought for the king! White armies fought everywhere for February. That is, the war was provoked by the February revolutionaries who tried to drag Russia into Europe. Make it a cozy Holland. The capitalists, bourgeoisie, liberals, with the bodies of officers, cadet students and other cannon fodder, tried to make Russia part of Europe. With the “market”, the dominance of the power of capital in a democratic shell.
Elections to the Constituent Assembly brought the socialists (socialist revolutionaries - Socialist Revolutionaries, People's Socialists, Bolsheviks, Mensheviks and other socialists) 80% of the votes. That is, the people did not want a tsar, nor capitalists, nor merchants and landowners.
And many such facts can be cited. It turns out that almost everyone, except the Tsar, opposed old Russia. But he didn’t have the will to fight either. Almost everyone wanted a revolution. And peasants, and workers, and capitalists with the bourgeoisie, and the liberal intelligentsia, and churchmen, and grand dukes, and nationalists, and professional revolutionaries. Naturally, our Western “partners” also wanted Russia’s death.
World War I trigger
In Russia at the beginning of the XNUMXth century there were two clamps that held a boiling cauldron. This is the army and autocracy. They were able to suppress the first revolution with the help of a regular army loyal to the throne. Also, the “deep people”, who were raised by the Black Hundreds, spoke out for the tsar.
The First World War became a trap into which Russia was pushed by our “allies” in the Entente. Going to war with a divided society stricken by mutual hatred was mortally dangerous. The best minds of the empire understood this - former Minister of Internal Affairs Durnovo, Stolypin (killed), Rasputin (killed) and many others. The war was initially completely unnecessary and incomprehensible to peasant Russia (80% or more people). The Straits, Constantinople and Galician Rus' - this is understandable to the intelligentsia, the educated part of society. They meant nothing to the peasants.
Currently, for about the majority of Russian society, “Ukrainians”, Kievan Rus, Novorossiya, Little Russia, Odessa-mama also mean nothing. Only budget expenses, loss of breadwinners, closed borders with Europe and other difficulties for a comfortable and well-fed life.
The Russian Empire fought for the interests of British and French capital. With Germany we could live perfectly in peace, just like the entire XNUMXth century with Prussia and the German Empire. However, the Russians and Germans were pitted against each other in the interests of the Roman and Anglo-Saxon worlds (England and the USA pitted Germany and Russia).
The Russian personnel army, a magnificent guard, saving Paris in 1914 and the Entente in 1915–1917, bled to death. The Russian army defeated the Turks in the South Caucasus, helping the Entente dismember the Ottoman Empire, invade Palestine and enter Constantinople-Constantinople, the age-old dream of the Russian tsars. It was Russia, having beaten Turkey, that opened the way for the British to oil-rich Iraq.
At the same time, Russia became the Entente's cash cow. Russia will send hundreds of tons of gold, billions of full rubles for purchase weapons, ammunition, supplies and equipment. The “partners” will take the money, but will not fulfill the orders, or will stall for time. Tsarist Russia will simply be abandoned! The West still owes us billions of gold rubles, plus interest.
Then England, France and the USA will also “thank” tsarist Russia - they will help the February revolutionaries and the fifth column from the country’s elite to organize the February Revolution. The Westerners will play along either with the Bolsheviks, or with the Whites, or with the nationalists, or with all of them together. They will make plans to dismember Russia and begin its full-scale occupation (“Russia has become just a geographical concept”). The interventionists will stage a total robbery of Russia, taking away everything they can get their hands on.
The war knocked out a personnel army devoted to the throne. In place of the dead career officers and non-commissioned officers came people from the liberal intelligentsia who hated the tsarist regime, peasants who hated officials, landowners, officers who knocked out their teeth, and a well-fed bourgeoisie. They were left to fight for goals they did not understand. Millions of people received a rifle, went through fire and water, and became embittered. They became the social base of the revolution.
Nicholas II did not understand this and lost his throne and country. Millions of people followed the revolutionaries. Behind the nationalists, Februaryists, anarchists, Socialist Revolutionaries. The Bolsheviks in this mess were generally the most insignificant, marginal party. In addition, they were practically the only ones who opposed the imperialist war, so they were defeated. The entire party active was in prison, exiled, and fled abroad.
Russia exploded like an atomic bomb. In February 1917, the mighty empire collapsed in just a few days, the so-called bourgeois revolution. No one defended the royal power. The city Cossacks and the police fled; those who did not have time were run over. The rear reserve regiments quickly became the epicenter of the turmoil. Under pressure from the generals and dignitaries, bound by the ties of the Masonic brotherhood, the tsar renounced the throne.
The Westerners and the elite of that time rejoiced. The Grand Dukes wore red revolutionary bows. A bourgeois-democratic republic was established in the country with a Provisional Government in which there was not a single Bolshevik. Russia has become very democratic and free. Even the army. In conditions of war! Wealthy, wealthy and educated layers of society believed that the West (Entente) would help!
But the complete disintegration of the army and the destruction of the autocracy destroyed the only bonds that held back the disorder. The economy has fallen into chaos. The army went home, with rifles and machine guns, and even cannons. The national outskirts and Cossack regions took as much sovereignty as they could swallow. The peasants decided that there was no more power, they organized the redistribution of land, the seizure of landowners' lands, and burned estates. A criminal revolution has begun, which always goes hand in hand with the turmoil. The country went into inferno.
The Bolsheviks simply seized power and built a new state and civilization, a new Soviet Russia. They saved Russian civilization, our state and our people from complete destruction and historical oblivion.
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