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Part 3. The matriarch of all revolutions
You thought we were finished? Oh no. Bannon’s revolution is finished — except for the prison sentences. But in the Russian Revolution, the battiness continued. When I left off excerpting Victor Sebestyen’s narrative of the Russian Revolution in his biography … Continue reading
Posted in Fascism, Guns in the U.S. of A., political campaigns, Politics, Propaganda, Racism, The Facts of Life, Trumpism
Tagged Bolsheviks, Cossacks, January 6 thefts, John Reed, Petrograd, Russian Provisional Government, Russian Red Guards, Sergei Eisenstein, Shock Battalion, Steve Bannon, the Russian Revolution, Tsar Nicholas II
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Part 2. The matriarch of all revolutions
As I wrote a few days ago, the Russian Revolution — as narrated by Victor Sebestyen in his historical biography, Lenin — was a series of absurdities which remind me of Armando Iannucci’s great satirical film, The Death of Stalin. … Continue reading
Posted in Fascism, Guns in the U.S. of A., Joe Biden and his people, Politics, Propaganda, The Facts of Life, Trumpism
Tagged Bolsheviks, Congress of Soviets, Cossacks, DOJ, John Reed, Keystone Kops, Lenin, Louise Bryant, Proud Boys, Provision Government of Russia, Russian Revolution, Shock Battalion of Death, Soviet Union, St Petersburg, Steve Bannon, storming of Winter Palace, the Winter Palace, Victor Sebestyen
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Part 1: The matriarch of all insurrections
The Russian Revolution. Now, a few days after the anniversary of an attempted replication of that revolution, it might be a good thing to review what actually happened in St. Petersburg on October 25, 1917, since it seems to be … Continue reading
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Tagged Bolsheviks, January 6 2021, Kronstadt naval base, Petrograd, Red Guards, Russian Revolution, Smolny Institute, St Petersburg Russia, Trotsky, Victor Sebestyen, Vladimir Lenin
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