Lenin wasn't particularly leftwing. In the context of the revolutionary movement as it stood in russia in 1917 he was far right. He admits it himself in this book he wrote attacking those to the left of him: http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1920/lwc/index.htm
He led the bolsheviks who hijacked the russian revolution, and was far more brutal in murdering those to the left of him than those to the right. The sailors in the song refer to the kronstadt sailors - serious revolutionaries who thought lenin wasn't communist enough and rose up against him. He had them massacred.
hmm, well there was the Soviet "Red Terror" in 1918 which Lenin was responsible for, a series of executions/massacres also there were stages of forced famine and attacks on racial and religious groups but certainly not to the scale of the Shoah during world war II.
Im curious of any other massacres?
sorry i am trying to reply to both of you.
Anyway on a different note i LOVE this song.
hmm, well there was the Soviet "Red Terror" in 1918 which Lenin was responsible for, a series of executions/massacres also there were stages of forced famine and attacks on racial and religious groups but certainly not to the scale of the Shoah during world war II.
Im curious of any other massacres?
sorry i am trying to reply to both of you.
Anyway on a different note i LOVE this song.
Lenin wasn't particularly leftwing. In the context of the revolutionary movement as it stood in russia in 1917 he was far right. He admits it himself in this book he wrote attacking those to the left of him: http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1920/lwc/index.htm
He led the bolsheviks who hijacked the russian revolution, and was far more brutal in murdering those to the left of him than those to the right. The sailors in the song refer to the kronstadt sailors - serious revolutionaries who thought lenin wasn't communist enough and rose up against him. He had them massacred.
Most of Lenins writings are online here: http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/index.htm
"The death camps during the Russian Revolution (comparable to those during the Holocaust)" You got a source for that?
hmm, well there was the Soviet "Red Terror" in 1918 which Lenin was responsible for, a series of executions/massacres also there were stages of forced famine and attacks on racial and religious groups but certainly not to the scale of the Shoah during world war II. Im curious of any other massacres? sorry i am trying to reply to both of you. Anyway on a different note i LOVE this song.
hmm, well there was the Soviet "Red Terror" in 1918 which Lenin was responsible for, a series of executions/massacres also there were stages of forced famine and attacks on racial and religious groups but certainly not to the scale of the Shoah during world war II. Im curious of any other massacres? sorry i am trying to reply to both of you. Anyway on a different note i LOVE this song.