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For everyone out there in the comments who claims that the October Revolution was pointless since it resulted in Stalinism, you might as well say the abolition of slavery was pointless since it didn't get rid of every single form of oppression. Through the October Revolution, Lenin, Trotsky and the Bolsheviks paved the way for the creation of the world's first workers' state. Annihilating illiteracy, raising life expectancy and the advances in science and gender equality are only soms of the many amazing results of the Bolshevik Revolution. And this might never have happened if Trotsky hadn't led the Red Army to victory and crushed the White Army. As Trotsky himself stated in his book, 'Revolution Betrayed':
"Even if the Soviet Union, as a result of internal difficulties, external blows and the mistakes of leadership, were to collapse - which we firmly hope will not happen - there would remain an earnest of the future this indestructible fact, that thanks solely to a proletarian revolution, a backwards country has achieved in less than ten years successes unexampled in history."
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Ronald Crump Let me explain it to you this way: more OF the Republican Party voted for the Civil Rights Act, but that doesn't mean that more Republicans voted for it than Democrats. In both the House and Senate, 189 out of 198 northern Democrats voted for the act and only 9 out of 112 southern Democrats voted for it. Meanwhile, 164 out of 193 northern Republicans voted for it while 0 out of 12 southern Republicans did. Of course, the majority of the Republican Party voted for it, unlike the Democratic Party, but that was 'cause the majority of the Democratic Party at the time came from the south. It still doesn't change the fact that more Democrats voted for it overall, and none of this changes the fact that Martin Luther King said that he voted for Lyndon Johnson, the Democratic nominee, in 1964. Do you think he was wrong to have done that? Do you think he should have voted for Goldwater, Johnson's Republican opponent who was in favour of segregation?
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@sasho_b. Pretty good points there. Yeah, I actually agree that Joseph Stalin is very likely hated more since he remained in power and lived for so long, while Trotsky died so early. It is worth noting, though, that, during the 1920s, after the revolution and civil war, Trotsky was reviled and obsessed over by the western powers nearly as much as Lenin, having been the commander of the Red Army who had overseen the defeat of the Whites and the invading imperialist armies. Winston Churchill and Joseph Goebbels even fixated on Trotsky's Jewish background as supposed evidence that communism was an international Jewish conspiracy. To my understanding, western anti-communists at the time saw Trotsky very much like they would later see Stalin decades later. Now, though, I think it's likely that the folks nowadays who say good things about Trotsky despite not being communists themselves simply are not very literate. I mean, if they don't think communism is good, why are they praising someone who defended Soviet Russia in its infancy from counter-revolution and imperialist attack?
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@SymphonyBrahms Sverdlov said that to Trotsky, not Lenin. And according to Pavel Bykov, Chairman of the Ural Soviet, the local Bolsheviks were the ones who actually gave the order. He recounts this in his book, 'The Last Days of Czardom' (which is available online by the way). Yakov Yurovsky, who oversaw the killings, also stated in his memoirs (published in 1922 and also available online) that it was an initiative of the Ural Soviet. After the killings, the local Bolsheviks informed the central government in Moscow, including Lenin and Sverdlov, who then approved the decision. That must have been what Sverdlov was referring to when he told Trotsky, "We decided it here".
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@hulkhogansuperfan Wow, I made those comments like three years ago. Lol. I don't support the Democratic Party or the Republican Party. Yes, you're right about the Democratic Party supporting segregation. However, in the 60s, that was all changing. Hence, in 1964 the Democrats nominated LBJ, who ran on a platform of civil rights and opposition to segregation. The Republicans, meanwhile, nominated Barry Goldwater, who opposed the Civil Rights Act. No getting around it. In 1964, the Democrats were clearly more supportive of civil rights. Not that either party currently cares about civil rights!
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