In post-revolutionary Russia, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) is established, comprising a confederation of Russia, Belorussia, Ukraine, and the Transcaucasian Federation (divided in 1936 into the Georgian, Azerbaijan, and Armenian republics). Also known as the Soviet Union, the new communist state was the successor to the Russian Empire and the first country in the world to be based on Marxist socialism.
During the Russian Revolution of 1917 and subsequent three-year Russian Civil War, the Bolshevik Party under Vladimir Lenin dominated the soviet forces, a coalition of workers’ and soldiers’ committees that called for the establishment of a socialist state in the former Russian Empire. In the USSR, all levels of government were controlled by the Communist Party, and the party’s politburo, with its increasingly powerful general secretary, effectively ruled the country. Soviet industry was owned and managed by the state, and agricultural land was divided into state-run collective farms.
In the decades after it was established, the Russian-dominated Soviet Union grew into one of the world’s most powerful and influential states and eventually encompassed 15 republics–Russia, Ukraine, Georgia, Belorussia, Uzbekistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia. In 1991, the Soviet Union was dissolved following the collapse of its communist government.
It is interesting to note, that when communism was imposed on the Russian people, not one synagogue was destroyed or “repurposed”, unlike Christian and Orthodox churches, all of which were destroyed or “repurposed” as stables or put to other secular uses by the inventors and promoters of communism.
Sorta tells you who these communists were…
Needs correction.
Slightly OT, but a delightful tactic by Putin played out today. The Russian foreign ministry, very early in the day, made a press statement suggesting they would expel 35 diplomats from Moscow in retaliation to Obama.
The mainstream media launched immediate postings with titles such as ‘Putin steps up heat in the cold war’. He gave them a few hours to make sure the tale was well established then made his announcement of no retaliation.
Egg meet msm face.
the only commie is our own gov’t
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Germans_in_Russia,_Ukraine_and_the_Soviet_Union
Russian Germans were disproportionately represented among Russia’s engineers, technical tradesmen, industrialists, financiers and large land owners.
Small wonder the “Russian” communists worked so hard to expel or exterminate them. It’s not genocide if it happens in Siberia, apparently.
You have to wonder if the NSDAP saw the same plan being carried forward in Germany itself by “German” communists, in the 1930s – and acted accordingly to protect their people. I have come to realize that most of what I was taught of history in school, was intentionally biased, and intentionally incomplete.