REDWAVE
Urban Jungle Dweller
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Regular readers of this board already know Mischka has been hounding me lately to say what country most closely conforms to my ideology. Why she would care, or bother to ask me such a silly question, is beyond me. And I'll probably regret answering at all: I still suspect she's baiting me, and will pounce on whatever answer I give.
However, I've decided to answer anyway, just for the hell of it. The nation which I admire the most, and in the military of which I would have gladly served, and been willing to kill and/or die if necessary, is the early Soviet Union under Lenin and Trotsky, from 1*** to 1923-4 (Lenin's final illness). It ousted the capitalists and landlords from power, and established the rule of the proletariat (urban working class) and the peasantry. It established full equal rights for the many different nationalities within the Soviet Union, in striking contrast to the Tsarist "prison house of nations," in which Great Russian chauvinism ran rampant. It also established equal rights for women, and in particular liberated the women of backward Central Asia (who have since been re-enslaved by the U.S.-backed "mujahadeen" and their successors.) It exposed the hypocrisy of the "Great Powers," by publishing the secret treaties in which they divided the anticipated spoils of victory from World War One. It called for workers' revolution worldwide. As a result, it faced the implacable hostility of the capitalist nations. Fourteen countries, including the U.S., sent troops and war materials in to aid the counterrevolutionary vermin, the Whites. In Churchill's memorable phrase, they sought to "strangle this infant in its cradle." But they failed: Trotsky built up the Red Army virtually from scratch into an effective fighting force, which crushed the counterrevolutionary scum.
The October Revolution and the early Soviet Union are the main beacons of hope, in all of human history, for the oppressed masses who currently groan under capitalist exploitation.
Of course, the betrayal by Stalin, the "gravedigger of the revolution," and the subsequent bureaucratic degeneration of the Soviet Union under the relentless pressure from the capitalist world, is another story entirely . . .
However, I've decided to answer anyway, just for the hell of it. The nation which I admire the most, and in the military of which I would have gladly served, and been willing to kill and/or die if necessary, is the early Soviet Union under Lenin and Trotsky, from 1*** to 1923-4 (Lenin's final illness). It ousted the capitalists and landlords from power, and established the rule of the proletariat (urban working class) and the peasantry. It established full equal rights for the many different nationalities within the Soviet Union, in striking contrast to the Tsarist "prison house of nations," in which Great Russian chauvinism ran rampant. It also established equal rights for women, and in particular liberated the women of backward Central Asia (who have since been re-enslaved by the U.S.-backed "mujahadeen" and their successors.) It exposed the hypocrisy of the "Great Powers," by publishing the secret treaties in which they divided the anticipated spoils of victory from World War One. It called for workers' revolution worldwide. As a result, it faced the implacable hostility of the capitalist nations. Fourteen countries, including the U.S., sent troops and war materials in to aid the counterrevolutionary vermin, the Whites. In Churchill's memorable phrase, they sought to "strangle this infant in its cradle." But they failed: Trotsky built up the Red Army virtually from scratch into an effective fighting force, which crushed the counterrevolutionary scum.
The October Revolution and the early Soviet Union are the main beacons of hope, in all of human history, for the oppressed masses who currently groan under capitalist exploitation.
Of course, the betrayal by Stalin, the "gravedigger of the revolution," and the subsequent bureaucratic degeneration of the Soviet Union under the relentless pressure from the capitalist world, is another story entirely . . .
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