MY SAY: HARD LABOR DAY IN 1918- THE RED TERROR
Many historians and commentators will argue and debate about the role of Fanni Kaplan’s attempt to assassinate Lenin on august 30,2013. None, however, dispute the fact that on September 2, 1918 the “Red Terror” – a campaign of mass killings, torture, and systematic oppression was launched by the Bolsheviks against all dissidents.
Grigori Zinoviev, a Lenin acolyte put it quite plainly in September: (Zinoviev himself was executed after a forced confession in the show trials in 1936.)
“To overcome of our enemies we must have our own socialist militarism. We must carry along with us 90 million out of the 100 million of Soviet Russia’s population. As for the rest, we have nothing to say to them. They must be annihilated.”
Although the numbers vary more than fifty thousand people were executed by hangings and firing squads. Others were imprisoned and tortured.
The best account of this era is by Robert Conquest:
The Great Terror: A Reassessment by Robert Conquest (Nov 15, 2007)
The niggling question for me remains why in spite of all the known evidence of the evil ideology and methods, leftists and radicals in America flocked to the party or to organizations such as SDS and other useful idiocy on behalf of Communism. I really don’t care if they recanted. Their sins directly affected all of the culture and media and education that prevail today. Their cohorts are the so-called journalists and professors that continue to infect America. rsk
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