Every year on November 7, Russia celebrates a memorable date - the Day of the October Revolution of 1917. Until 1991, November 7 was the main holiday of the USSR and was called the Day of the Great October Socialist Revolution.
Throughout the existence of the Soviet Union (celebrated since 1918), November 7 was the "red day of the calendar", that is, a public holiday. On this day, workers' demonstrations and military parades were held on Red Square in Moscow, as well as in the regional and regional centers of the USSR. The last military parade on Moscow's Red Square to commemorate the anniversary of the October Revolution took place in 1990. Celebration of November 7 as one of the most important public holidays remained in Russia until 2004, while since 1992 only one day was considered a holiday - November 7 (in the USSR, November 7-8 was considered a holiday).
In 1995, the Day of Military Glory was established - the Day of the military parade on Red Square in Moscow to commemorate the twenty-fourth anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution (1941). In 1996, by decree of the President of the Russian Federation "in order to soften confrontation and reconciliation of various layers of Russian society" it was renamed the Day of Accord and Reconciliation. Since 2005, in connection with the establishment of a new public holiday, National Unity Day, November 7 has ceased to be a day off.
November 7 ceased to be a holiday, but was included in the list of memorable dates. Indeed, this day cannot be deleted from the history of Russia, since the uprising in Petrograd on October 25-26 (November 7-8 according to the new style) led not only to the overthrow of the bourgeois Provisional Government, but also predetermined the entire further development of Russia, had a huge impact on the world history.
It is worth noting that the attempt to overshadow the Day of the October Revolution with the help of the Day of National Unity has failed. There is no national unity in the Russian Federation. Again, there is a split into "white" and "red". It is impossible to unite an insignificant wealthy stratum that has appropriated the fruits of the hard work of several generations and the masses of the people, to a large extent disadvantaged, whose prospects in the conditions of the global and internal Russian crisis (de facto already in the conditions of the world war) are very bleak.
In 1991-1993. a counter-revolution took place in Russia, the bourgeois, liberal-capitalist revolution triumphed. The heirs of the "Februaryists" of the 1917 model won: liberals, Westernizers, capitalists and financial speculators. Therefore, it is impossible to unite oligarchs, financial speculators and ordinary people who advocate social justice. We are frankly robbed year after year, and even during the crisis, when the bulk of the people are getting poorer, millionaires and billionaires continue to get rich and by their overconsumption (a feast during the plague) challenge the population. The speculations on the holiday on May 9 and November 4 cannot gloss over this reality. During the parade, Lenin's mausoleum is always shyly covered with plywood structures. It is obvious that the current authorities and oligarchs do not want to have anything in common with Lenin and Stalin, with a socialist state oriented towards the people.
Not surprisingly, a war of monuments began in Russia. The pro-Western part of the ruling and financial and economic elite is trying to rewrite history on its own, creating a myth about the "prosperous" Romanov empire with a "noble elite" and a hardworking, law-abiding Orthodox population, which was destroyed by the "bloody Bolsheviks." Allegedly, the Bolsheviks created an "evil empire", "enslaved the people", destroyed churches and palaces, tore Russia away from European civilization, "distorting its path."
This part of the Russian elite is trying to repeat the Petersburg-2 project in Russia, that is, it glorifies the Romanov empire in every possible way, opposing it to the “bloody” Red Empire (USSR). For this, active work is underway in the field of culture, art, cinema, architecture, etc. At the same time, the "new nobles", monarchists and Western liberals are no longer holding back. Apparently, they believe that enough time has passed and the generations of the "scoop" are a thing of the past, and pensioners do not pose a threat due to the lack of energy and financial dependence.
Hence scandal after scandal. A memorial plaque is installed in St. Petersburg to General Mannerheim, a former tsarist general who became the leader of independent Finland, which claimed vast Russian lands and started a war with Soviet Russia three times (1918-1920, 1921-1922 and 1941-1944), became an ally of Hitler and the enemy of the USSR during the Great Patriotic War. Recently it became known that the authorities of St. Petersburg intend to install a memorial plaque to Admiral Kolchak, officially recognized as a war criminal. The White Admiral acted in the interests of his Western masters (England and the USA), and when he was no longer needed, he was simply surrendered. In Krasnodar, they again started talking about perpetuating the memory of the hanged Nazi accomplice ataman Krasnov. In Kerch, the first in Russia monument to the "black baron" Pyotr Wrangel was erected, who, even within the framework of the White movement, had a very ambiguous reputation.
On the eve of November 4, the State Duma deputy N. Poklonskaya made a scandal, putting the "monsters" Lenin, Mao Zedong and Hitler in one row. However, then she conceded somewhat, saying: “We have freedom of speech. This is my purely personal opinion, my civil position. I do not represent any public opinion here”.
This is the second major scandal with her name. Poklonskaya at the Immortal Regiment, which is dedicated to the victory of the Soviet Red Army soldiers over the Wehrmacht, came out with an icon of Nicholas II, clearly causing discord on the holy holiday.
It is also worth noting that in 2016 a number of films about tsarist Russia were released - "about the crunch of a French roll." Like, everything was fine, but everything was trampled by their boots by the "lumpen-proletariat", the "damned Bolsheviks", who forced the tsar to abdicate and destroyed the empire. In particular, the film "Hero". A new wave of "white revenge" is taking place in Russia (the first was in the 1990s). A cultural center "White Heritage" will appear in the Novospassky Monastery of Moscow in 2017. News came from Rostov-on-Don that a museum of the general would open in the house where Wrangel lived.
The Yeltsin Center is actively working on this topic, pursuing a policy of de-Sovietization and reaching the point of rehabilitating the Vlasov regime. So, one of the leaders of the "EC", Nikita Sokolov, offered to rehabilitate the Vlasovites. Sokolov said that it is necessary to go beyond the narrow understanding of the repressed. We need to expand it. He said that an important social problem is the memory of groups of people "who were not rehabilitated and created real combat groups to resist the Soviet regime," including the "Vlasovites". Sokolov himself is "not sure" that modern Russia should consider them enemies of the people.
Thus, after 2015, when, on the anniversary of the Great Victory, the media and the ruling elite recalled the positive role of the USSR and even Stalin, there was again a turn towards "white revenge."The sympathies of a significant part of the ruling elite and the pro-Western near-power environment are clearly on the side of the white revanchists and their ideas, since they defend the foundations of large property. It is impossible to unite Russian society, since the current liberal-pro-Western capitalist system does not correspond to the interests of the Russian people and other peoples of our civilization.
The October Revolution saved Russia
After 1991, Russia was actively distributing the myth that "the Bolsheviks destroyed the autocracy and the Russian Empire." However, this is a deception. First, after the defeat of the revolution of 1905-1907. various socialist parties were defeated, their organizations were destroyed or went deep underground, leaders and activists fled into exile or were in prison, were in exile. Lenin spoke pessimistically that there would be no revolution in Russia during his lifetime. In general, the Bolshevik Party was a small, unpopular organization that did not have the opportunity to cause serious unrest in the Russian Empire.
Only the February Revolution opened up broad prospects for the socialists: it was possible to come to Russia, many leaders and activists were amnestied; the work of law enforcement agencies was disrupted, it was possible to strengthen agitation and propaganda, to recreate the old and create new structures; spontaneous unrest among the people intensified, radical ideas became more and more popular among workers, peasants and soldiers tired of war and recruits who did not want to go to the front and die "for the Dardanelles", which for ordinary people did not matter at all. The mediocre policy of the liberal-bourgeois Provisional Government did not restore order, but only intensified the chaos and unrest in society. All this was used by the radicals (socialists, national separatists) for their own purposes.
Secondly, the spontaneous unrest of workers, recruits, anarchist sailors and peasants, dissatisfied with their position and the growth of disasters during the war, could be suppressed by any organized state force, including the Romanov empire. There were enough forces for this - Cossacks, loyal units, guards, fired front units. All that was needed was political will. During the Civil War, both whites and reds faced this problem and generally solved it, through repression and terror, and partial concessions. What was needed was a "counter-elite" that would oppose the autocracy; it was the "Februaryists" - bourgeois revolutionaries.
Thirdly, autocracy and empire were destroyed in February-March 1917, the so-called. the Februaryists are the wealthy, prosperous and privileged elite of the Russian Empire. It was not the commissars and the Red Guards who forced Tsar Nicholas II to abdicate, but the ruling elite, large property owners, high-level Masons, ministers, Duma leaders and generals.
Discontent in society up to significant spontaneous unrest was raised by "noble", educated and well-to-do people. During the war, the rear was disorganized, food and fuel supplies to large cities were disrupted, corruption and large-scale theft flourished, the lives of ordinary people deteriorated significantly, which caused sharp discontent among the population and the beginning of natural unrest. And when the unrest in February 1917 took on a large scale, requiring strong-willed decisions, sending loyal troops to the imperial capital, the political and social, industrial, financial, military and bureaucratic elite (many of these people were at the same time Freemasons, that is, submitted to the masters of the West) pressure on the king. Nicholas II did not dare to "swim against the tide", go to the loyal troops and generals, and try to eliminate the future seas of blood with little blood. He chose to renounce.
Thus, power was seized by the Februaryists: industrial and commercial, financial capital, a degenerated aristocracy, grand dukes, generals, high officials, Duma leaders, liberal politicians and representatives of the pro-Western intelligentsia. They wanted to guide Russia along the western path of development, focused on a constitutional monarchy modeled on England or republican France. They had money, power, but no real power, control. They wanted the dominance of the market and democratic freedoms, without the restraining shackles of autocracy. In addition, Russian Westernizers, Freemasons simply liked to live in Europe (for many years they lived in it) - so “sweet and civilized”.
However, having triumphantly crushed the autocracy, the Westernized Februaryists, instead of the victory of "democracy" and the complete power of capital, received the catastrophe of "historical Russia." Old Russia, under which they generally flourished, collapsed. And to create on the place of Russia "sweet" France or England, did not work. The matrix of a Western-type society was not engrafted in Russian civilization. At the same time, the pillars that allowed the Romanov empire to exist were destroyed: the regular army was killed in the battles of the First World War, the autocracy was dared, the Cossacks began to remember about self-government. The mediocre, self-destructive policy of the liberal, bourgeois Provisional Government did not lead to prosperity, but destroyed the still existing bonds holding back the unity of the Russian state.
It must be remembered that by the fall of 1917, the liberal-bourgeois Provisional Government had brought Russian civilization and statehood to the brink of disaster. The Russian state was abandoned not only by the national outskirts, but also by the regions within Russia itself - like the Cossack autonomies. A scanty number of nationalists claimed power in Kiev and Little Russia-Ukraine. An autonomous government appeared in Siberia.
The interim government was unable to stop the collapse of the armed forces. Order No. 1 on the "democratization" of the army led to an even greater decay and decline of the armed forces. As a result, the armed forces collapsed long before the Bolshevik coup and could not continue fighting. The army and navy have themselves turned from pillars of order into sources of turmoil and anarchy. Thousands of soldiers deserted, taking away weapons (including machine guns and guns!). The front was falling apart, and there was no one to stop the German army. Russia could not fulfill its duty to its allies in the Entente.
Finances and economics were disorganized, a single economic space was falling apart. Serious problems with the supply of cities began, harbingers of famine. The government even during the time of the Russian Empire began to carry out surplus appropriation (again, the Bolsheviks were then accused of them). The amnesty freed the revolutionaries and bandits, a burst of revolutionary activity and a criminal revolution began with the complete collapse of the old police.
The peasants saw that there was no power! For the peasants, the power was the anointed of God - the king, and his support was the army. They began to seize the land, "black redistribution" and "revenge": the landowners' estates burned in hundreds. Thus, a new peasant war began in Russia, even before October and the war between the whites and the reds.
Outside open enemies and former "partners" began the division and seizure of Russian territories. At the same time, England, France and the United States claimed the most tasty morsels. In particular, the Americans, with the help of Czechoslovak bayonets, planned to stake out almost all of Siberia and the Far East. The Provisional Government, instead of proposing a goal, a program and active and decisive actions to save the state, postponed the solution of fundamental issues until the convocation of the Constituent Assembly.
The country was covered with a wave of chaos, both controlled and spontaneous. The autocracy, which was the core of the empire, was crushed by an internal “fifth column”. In return, the inhabitants of the empire received "freedom."People felt free from all taxes, duties and laws. The provisional government, whose policy was determined by figures of the liberal and leftist persuasion, could not establish an effective order, moreover, by its actions, it deepened the chaos. It turned out that the Western-oriented leaders (most of them Masons, subordinate to the "older brothers" from the West) continued to destroy Russia. In words, everything was beautiful and smooth, in deeds - they were destroyers or "impotent" who could only speak beautifully.
Thus, the policy of the Februaryists led to total disaster. Liberal-democratic Petrograd has de facto lost control of the country. Russia actually fell. Russia should not have remained on the world map. The masters of the West have erased Russia and Russians from world history.
The further power of the Februaryists led to the collapse of Russia into separate principalities and "independent republics" with a mass of "independent" presidents, hetmans, atamans, khans and princelings with their own parliaments-talking houses, micro-armies and administrative apparatus. All these "states" inevitably fell under the rule of external forces - England, France, USA, Japan, Turkey, etc. In this case, the former parts of the empire buried themselves in the Russian lands. Finnish nationalists planned to create "Greater Finland" at the expense of Russian lands (Karelia, Kola Peninsula, etc.), and, with luck, seize the lands of Northern Russia up to the Urals. The Poles dreamed of a new Rzeczpospolita from sea to sea, with the inclusion of Lithuania, White and Little Russia. England, France, USA and Japan planned the occupation of strategic points and communications. The sphere of influence of England included the Russian North, the Caucasus. Turkey planned to occupy the Caucasus, Japan - the whole of Sakhalin, the Far East, Russian possessions in China. The United States, with the help of Czechoslovak bayonets, planned the occupation of the Great Siberian Route, the main communication from the European part of Russia to the Pacific Ocean, which made it possible to control most of Russia - the Far East, Siberia and the North (together with England). Russian civilization and the people were threatened with complete destruction and disappearance from history.
However, there was a force that was able to take power and offer the people a viable project. They were the Bolsheviks. Until the summer of 1917, they were not considered a serious political force, being inferior in popularity and number to the Cadets and Socialist-Revolutionaries. But by the fall of 1917, their popularity had grown. Their program was clear and understandable to the masses. Power during this period could be taken by virtually any force that would show political will. The Bolsheviks became this force.
In August 1917, the Bolsheviks set a course for an armed uprising and a socialist revolution. This happened at the VI Congress of the RSDLP (b). However, then the Bolshevik party was actually underground. The most revolutionary regiments of the Petrograd garrison were disbanded, and the workers who sympathized with the Bolsheviks were disarmed. The ability to recreate armed structures appeared only during the Kornilov revolt. The idea of an uprising in the capital had to be postponed. Only on October 10 (23), 1917, the Central Committee adopted a resolution on the preparation of an uprising.
On October 12 (25), 1917, the Petrograd Military Revolutionary Committee was established to defend the revolution against "an openly preparing attack by military and civilian Kornilovites". The VRK included not only the Bolsheviks, but also some Left Socialist-Revolutionaries and anarchists. In fact, this body coordinated the preparation of an armed uprising. With the help of the Military Revolutionary Committee, the Bolsheviks established close ties with the soldiers' committees of the formations of the Petrograd garrison. In fact, the left forces restored dual power in the city and began to establish their control over the military forces. On October 21, a meeting of representatives of the garrison regiments was held, which recognized the Petrograd Soviet as the only legal authority in the city. From that moment on, the Military Revolutionary Committee began to appoint its commissars to military units, replacing the commissars of the Provisional Government.
On the night of October 22, the Military Revolutionary Committee demanded that the headquarters of the Petrograd Military District recognize the powers of its commissars, and on the 22nd announced the subordination of the garrison to itself. On October 23, the Military Revolutionary Committee won the right to create an advisory body at the headquarters of the Petrograd district. By October 24, the VRK had appointed its commissars to the troops, as well as to arsenals, weapons depots, railway stations and factories. In fact, by the beginning of the uprising, left-wing forces had established military control over the capital. The provisional government was incapacitated and could not decisively answer.
That's why there were no serious clashes and a lot of blood, the Bolsheviks simply took power. The guards of the Provisional Government and the units loyal to them surrendered almost everywhere and went home. Nobody wanted to shed their blood for the temporary workers. From October 24, detachments of the Petrograd Military Revolutionary Committee occupied all the key points of the city. The armed people simply occupied the key facilities of the capital, and all this was done without firing a single shot, calmly and methodically. When the head of the Provisional Government, Kerensky, ordered the arrest of the members of the All-Russian Revolutionary Committee, there was no one to carry out the arrest order. The Provisional Government surrendered the country almost without a fight, although even before the revolution it had every opportunity to deal with active members of the Bolshevik Party. The fact that they did nothing to protect their last citadel, the Winter Palace, speaks of the complete mediocrity and incapacity of the temporary workers: there were no combat-ready units, no ammunition or food was prepared. The authorities did not bring up the loyal troops in a timely manner.
By the morning of October 25 (November 7), only the Winter Palace remained with the Provisional Government in Petrograd. Soon they took him too. Most of the palace guards went home. The whole assault consisted of a sluggish firefight. Its scale can be understood from the losses: only a few people died. At 2 am on October 26 (November 8), members of the Provisional Government were arrested. Kerensky himself escaped in advance, leaving accompanied by the car of the American ambassador under the American flag (he was saved by overseas patrons).
Thus, the Bolsheviks practically defeated the "shadow" of the government. Later, a myth was created about a brilliant operation and a "heroic struggle" against the bourgeoisie. The main reason for the victory was the complete mediocrity and passivity of the Provisional Government. Almost all liberal leaders could only speak beautifully. The resolute and strong-willed Kornilov, who tried to establish at least some order, has already been eliminated. If in the place of Kerensky there was a decisive dictator of the Suvorov or Napoleon type, with several shock units from the front, he would easily disperse the decayed units of the Petrograd garrison and the red partisan formations.
On the evening of October 25, the Second All-Russian Congress of Soviets opened in Smolny, which proclaimed the transfer of all power to the Soviets. On October 26, the Council adopted the Peace Decree. All the belligerent countries were invited to start negotiations on the conclusion of a universal democratic peace. The land decree transferred the landowners' lands to the peasants. All mineral resources, forests and waters were nationalized. At the same time, a government was formed - the Council of People's Commissars, headed by Vladimir Lenin.
Simultaneously with the uprising in Petrograd, the Military Revolutionary Committee of the Moscow Soviet took control of key points of the city. Things didn't go so smoothly here. The Public Security Committee under the leadership of the chairman of the city duma Vadim Rudnev, with the support of cadets and Cossacks, began hostilities against the Soviet. Fighting continued until November 3, when the Public Security Committee surrendered. On the whole, Soviet power was established in the country easily and without much bloodshed. The revolution was immediately supported in the Central Industrial Region, where the local Soviets of Workers' Deputies were already in fact in control of the situation. In the Baltics and Belarus, Soviet power was established in October - November 1917, and in the Central Black Earth Region, the Volga region and Siberia - until the end of January 1918. These events were called "the triumphal march of Soviet power." The process of the predominantly peaceful establishment of Soviet power throughout the territory of Russia became yet another proof of the complete degradation of the Provisional Government and the need to save the country with an active and programmed force.
Subsequent events confirmed the correctness of the Bolsheviks. Russia was on the brink of death. The old project was destroyed, and only a new project could save Russia. It was given by the Bolsheviks. And the “old Russia” was destroyed by the Februaryists - the rich, prosperous and privileged elite of the Russian Empire, the liberal intelligentsia, which hated the “prison of peoples”. In general, most of the "elite" of Russia overthrew the tsar with their own hands and destroyed the empire, dreaming of building a "sweet Europe" in Russia.
The Bolsheviks did not begin to save "old Russia", she was doomed and struggled in agony. They offered the people to create a new reality, a new civilization (Soviet). A just society of creation and service, where there will be no classes parasitizing on the people. It was the Bolsheviks who displayed such basic values for the Russian "matrix" as justice, the primacy of truth over the law, the spiritual principle over the material, the general over the particular. Their victory led to the construction of a separate "Russian socialism". The Bolsheviks had all three necessary elements for the formation of a new project: image of a bright future; political will and energy, faith in one's victory (super passionarity); and iron organization and discipline.
Most of the common people liked the image of the future, since communism was originally inherent in Russian civilization and the people. It is not for nothing that, long before the revolution, many Russian, Christian-minded thinkers were simultaneously supporters of socialism. Only socialism could be an alternative to parasitic capitalism (and at present - to the neo-slaveholding, neo-feudal system). Communism stood on the basis of creation, labor. All this corresponded to the "matrix" of Russian civilization. The Bolsheviks had political will, energy and faith. They had an organization.
It is clear that not everything was smooth with the Bolsheviks. They had to act harshly, even harshly. A significant part of the top of the revolutionaries were internationalists (supporters of Trotsky and Sverdlov). Many of them were agents of Western influence, destroyers who dreamed of destroying the "old world". They were supposed to launch a "second wave" to destroy the Russian super-ethnos (Russian civilization). The "first wave" was the Februaryist Masons. They viewed Russia as a victim, a feeding trough, a base for the world revolution, which would lead to the establishment of a New World Order, the masters of which would be the “world behind the scenes”. The "world behind the scenes" unleashed a world war and organized a revolution in Russia. The masters of the United States and England planned to establish a global world order - a caste, neo-slavery society. Marxism acted in their interests. Their instruments were internationalist revolutionaries, Trotskyists.
However, our enemies miscalculated. The Trotskyist internationalists, who were the "fifth column" of the West in Russia and who were supposed to transfer power in Central Russia to their masters, were opposed by real Bolsheviks (Russian communists). For the most part, they were ordinary people without a "double bottom", they fervently believed in a "bright future" without the exploitation of the working class, without parasitic superstructures over the people. A popular leader appeared in the party itself, who was clean before the people and was not tainted by his connection with the special services and "non-governmental" structures of the West. It was Joseph Stalin.
Thus, with the October Revolution and the victory of the Bolsheviks, the revival of Russian civilization and empire began, but already through the Soviet project, in the image of the Soviet Union. The people supported the project of the Bolsheviks, their program. Therefore, the whites were defeated, as were the nationalists and outright bandits - the "green". The Anglo-American, French and Japanese invaders fled, because they could not resist the whole people. The merciless struggle within the party itself, the struggle between the agents of the West - Sverdlovtsy, Trotskyists, internationalists and real Russian communists, Bolshevik Stalinists, led by Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin - first led to the seizure of control and removal from the Soviet Olympus of the most odious figures like Trotsky. And then, from 1924 to 1939, - to the almost complete defeat of Western agents in Russia (represented by all kinds of Kamenevs, Zinovievs, Bukharins, etc.)
Modern liberals, monarchists are trying to convince the people that October has become "the curse of Russia." They say that Russia again broke away from Europe, and the history of the USSR is a complete disaster. In the reality the Bolsheviks turned out to be the only force that, after the death of "old Russia" - the project of the Romanovs, tried to save the state and the people, to create a new reality. They have created a project that will preserve the best that was in the past, and at the same time will be a breakthrough into the future, into a different, fair, solar reality, without slavery and oppression, parasitism and obscurantism. If it were not for the Bolsheviks, Russian civilization would simply have perished.
