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<div>Chris Doss has long left no doubt about his preference for
the</div>
<div>"February Revolutionaries" Miliukov and Kerensky as
against</div>
<div>the "October Revolutionaries," those "assholes,"
those</div>
<div>"irresponsible adventurists," Lenin and Trotsky.
Soit. But he</div>
<div>should not be allowed to get away with blatant
falsifications:</div>
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<div>1.) "land to the peasants" could not have taken
place at all</div>
<div> without the "October"
overthrow of his "February" favorites;</div>
<div> peasant landownership was
absolutely untouched until 1929-1930;</div>
<div> the miltarized forced
collectivization was not the work of</div>
<div> the "October"
Bolsheviks but that of their murderer.</div>
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<div>2.) There was nothing "hypothetical" about
"revolution in</div>
<div> Germany," as the Kaiser found
out in less than a year.</div>
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<div>3.) The Bolsheviks took power under conditions of
*imperialist*</div>
<div> war, not of civil war.
"October" ended the imperialist war</div>
<div> in the East.
"February" regrouped and began the civil war</div>
<div> that bled "October"
white and, in the absence of successful</div>
<div> European socialist
revolutions, led to the Imperial</div>
<div> restoration under
Yusef.</div>
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<div>Shane Mage<br>
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"Thunderbolt steers all
things." <span
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<div>Herakleitos of Ephesos, fr. 64</div>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>Yeah, that "Land to the Peasants!"
thing didn't last very long.</blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>I am not a fan of the Bolshies by any
means, who I think at bottom were irresponsible adventurists, gambling
the fate of 200 million or so people on a hypothetical revolution in
Germany as they did, but to be fair they _were_ operating under
conditions of civil war. There's no way to know how much of what they
did was out of ideological fervor and how much out of being
backed into a corner.<br>
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