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Putin sits at a long, long table…
…Far away from potential assassins. Russia once had another leader who commanded violence and death but stayed well away from it himself — Lenin. This, from Victor Sebestyen’s biography: As usual, where the violence was, Lenin wasn’t…In his circle of … Continue reading
Posted in Fascism, Politics, Propaganda, Trumpism
Tagged Bolsheviks, Cossacks, January 6 assault, Kyiv, Lenin, Lenin cowardice, Nikolai Valentinov, Putin, St Petersburg, Tatiana Alexinsky, Trump, Ukraine, Victor Sebestyen
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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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