History Repeats Itself: Lenin’s Actions to Steal the 1917 Election in Russia Are Eerily Similar to the Democrats Steal Today
A reminder…the first “free election” in Russia was held in 1917.
The energy of the Bolsheviks and the promises of Lenin were insufficient to win the election (they only garnered 23%) of the vote.
But Lenin’s cunning campaign continued after the sunset on the election day.
There was corruption in the balloting. There were “extensions” to allow more ballots.
There was a long and strong public propaganda messaging to the public that the Bolsheviks had won when they had lost.
The agenda to “transform” Russia into the first Marxist governed nation did not cease after the polls closed on the “election day.”
Violence, manipulation of the news, vociferous protests, armed vandals, and an attack upon the Russian governing structure increased. Eventually the Russian Provisional Government was absolved and the tyranny of 70 years slavery to Marxist dogmas resulted.
The Russian population was well armed ....
...(probably more weapons were in Russia than any other nation at that time) and many of the Russians had military experience having faced the Kaiser’s army on the eastern front. So, the presence of weaponry and veterans was not a factor in opposing the Bolsheviks. The civil war that was inevitable between Red and White Russians attest to the fact that weaponry was accessible. No, contrary to many opinions today, Lenin’s success was not because “guns were outlawed.”
The success of Lenin’s transformation of Russia can be laid at the feet of the Russian population.
The nation assented to and conformed complacently with the dictates of a vocal and violent minority.
The nation resigned its “free election” and surrendered to the prevailing propaganda!
The actual facts did not influence the population. They accepted what they were told and complied without any question.
An unanswered question haunts the history of this event: “What would have happened IF the general population had not surrendered to the violence and vocal minority?”
However, history shows that often the vocal minority becomes the governing especially if violence is threatened.
It does not matter how many guns there are and how many millions of rounds of ammunition are bought, the population generally complies with and coalesces around the presented politicians who promise “peace, land and bread.”
Following the Bolsheviks’ takeover, a number of events unfolded:
The Tsar was arrested and eventually executed.
The nation entered into a bloody civil war.
- The political opposition forces were systematically eliminated if they did not capitulate to the Bolsheviks.
- The leaders of the transformed nation devolved into greater savagery and left a legacy of evil.
And now we turn history forward to 2020…
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