--- joanna <123hop at comcast.net> wrote:
> True, he did, but when Trotsky was running around
> rallying the troops it
> wasn't for "an interim step to more efficient
> capitalist exploitation"
> -- it was for a socialist revolution -- for land,
> and bread, and peace,
> and heath, and education, and social justice. That's
> what the people
> were willing to fight for.
>
In "Red Cavalry," you get the feeling they were fighting mainly for plunder. ;)
But anyway the dichotomy of Reds as being super-progressive and Whites as being pure reactionary blackguards is wrong.
One thing one can say about Red Army operational practice is that they engaged in pogroms _less often_ than the Whites. ;)
Nu, zayats, pogodi!
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