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Mikhail Iosifovich Weller Andrey Mikhailovich Burovsky

"A Civil History of a Mad War": ACT MOSCOW; Moscow; 2007
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This book for the first time sets out the history of the Civil War as a terrible and amazing fairy tale that happened in reality. Fantastic destinies, extraordinary adventures, noble dreams and seas of blood. Easy colloquial language, irony and honesty on the verge of cynicism make the book an indispensable reading for anyone who has heard the word "Russia".

M. VELLER, A. BUROVSKII
Civil History of Mad War

a short course in the civil history of mad war

History is a scroll of secrets retold by a fool on a broken phone. History is usually presented as a sequence of important events. At the same time, logic and psychology internal process these events are usually not taken into account - it remains outside the scope, is outside the interests of the historian. As a result, the historian very often fails to distinguish major events from the ordinary. As a result, the reader receives the label "Horseradish in a pickle."
- This is not trifles, my dear Eisman! This is not even a trifle! - Papa Müller, the Gestapo, understood that the steel thread of motives driving human actions is sometimes attached to the most inconspicuous carnations!
History is written by the winners. And it turns into a report written down by the clerk under the dictation of the commander - for the judges-descendants and bosses: about our valor, the difficulties overcome and the vileness of enemies. The ends do not converge, but it flatters pride.
I will not talk about military intelligence analyst Vladimir Rezun, the damned traitor and famous writer Viktor Suvorov. He combined individual trifles into a mosaic, and the world gasped and historians howled from the resulting picture. Oh no: dig deeper:
The Greeks fought the Trojans, according to Homer and Schliemann. Everyone knows this. Yes? Yes? Yeah. And what? “But Paris kidnapped Elena the Beautiful, the wife of one of the Greek kings, Menelaus. And why? But because earlier the three main Greek goddesses called on the most beautiful young man to resolve their doubts. They chose Paris as the most beautiful young man. And Athena, Aphrodite and Hera gave Paris an apple: hand it to the most beautiful of us! Paris gave the apple to Aphrodite, and as a bonus for the service he was gifted: the most beautiful woman in Greece will fall in love with him. It was Helena. So? The second well-known fact: the entire Mediterranean coast of Asia Minor, first of all - the current Anatolian coast of Turkey - it was the homeland of the Greeks. And Ephesus, and Miletus, and many less famous cities stood there in those days. In general, the Greeks migrated from east to west, and the Aegean Sea was settled by them from both shores and all over the islands Thales lived in Miletus. Herostratus lived in Ephesus. And Paris lived in Troy!!! And he was the same Greek as Menelaus and other Greeks!!! And all the inhabitants of Troy were Greeks too!!! And what - the Greek goddesses to themselves barbarian p dared to judge them?! Or was Troy a barbarian enclave on Greek territory? Or some of the Greek gods did not patronize the Trojans?! For ease of distinction, Homer calls teams from a bunch of islands and storming places "Greeks", but "Trojans" are the same Greeks as all neighboring Spartans, Ithacans, Thebans, etc. It's like "Novgorodians" and all the troops of Ivan the Terrible "Russians" . Look, the "Trojans" and "Greeks" pray to the same gods and lead the same way of life, speaking the same language! And this absolutely self-evident truth is practically not taken into account by anyone. Homer said "Greeks and Trojans" - that's it, there's nothing to think about.
A person who cannot think, see and understand is not a historian. And so, an involuntary misinformer. Brainless enumerator of facts in arbitrary selections. History is meaningless to list. History must be understood.
And this is all the more difficult because, over time, the political reasons for lying are replaced by psychosocial ones. A person subconsciously needs to feel like a part of a great whole: a mighty people, great science, a brilliant football team. Just as one who looks into the mirror makes his face more significant and beautiful in order to be better, so he who looks into the mirror of history “makes himself a good face”! Oh no, little things: we’ll turn a little here, we don’t like this mole - we’ll cover it up, we’ll expose our chin - but this is our real chin!
And then the iron logic and crazy accidents of history disappear - and a meaningless archipelago remains on the surface. And the reader of such a story wonders: were all these figures fools? Why are they talking nonsense? Have you not seen what is visible and clear to me? They are not politicians and commanders, but goats! No, buddy... They just hid the motives and connections of their actions from you.
I. It would be nice for anyone who intends to take up history to make a tattoo on their arm - from the inside, neatly so, as a keepsake for themselves - a tattoo:
1. When.
2. Where.
3. What.
4. Who.
5. With whom.
6. How much.
7. Why.
8. How.
9. As a result.
10. Why.
11. With what end goal.
Without answers to these eleven questions, history does not exist. For the silence of a part of the truth is a lie. And ignorance of the system of causes is stupidity. Don't let yourself be deceived, and don't let yourself be fooled.
1. Never in world history has there been an event equal to the Russian Civil War in scale, density, diversity and swiftness of what happened. For four years, dozens of states emerged, merged, separated and collapsed on one sixth of the earth's land. Dozens of peoples gained independence, fought for it with near and distant neighbors - and lost again. Dozens of political parties organized, formed alliances, banned each other and disappeared forever. Yesterday's scum of society ascended in tens of thousands to the ruling class, and yesterday's educated and hard-working people turned into state slavery and were deprived of all rights. Millions fled, millions were destroyed, cruelty assumed an unimaginable character, execution was qualified as an "administrative measure." The gigantic empire suddenly collapsed into nothingness without any influence from external enemies and was immediately restored to its former size, but already as a social experiment that was fantastic in its plans and hopes.
As long as the Russians live on earth, they will again and again return to comprehending their bloody and finest hour - their Great Civil War, finding in it all new reasons for pride in their valor and sorrow for innocent blood.
Empires pass and peoples disappear, but the roots of greatness stretch from the past and nourish with juices, allowing descendants to hold their heads high. History is immortality.
2. The Civil War was conceived and first planned in 1914. The year ended and big war dragged on in Europe. (Soon it will be called the Great, and after the end it will be called the World War more often, and with the unfolding of World War II it will simultaneously become World War I.) It was then that Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov began to promote the thesis. Forty-four-year-old Lenin was wiry, energetic, and uncompromisingly asserted his leadership in the party company. The company drank beer in Switzerland, admiring the wonderful scenery, and the leader liked to pass a mug of light. And this thesis was like this, and a little later Lenin framed it in an article for the social democratic press: "Let's turn the imperialist war into a civil one!" The proletarian must turn away his bayonet from the proletarians of other countries in military uniform - and turn this bayonet against his own bourgeoisie! The people were given rifles and organized into the army. O! This army would be - yes, for socialist purposes!
Life in Switzerland was, of course, safe, but boring. And Lenin is already years old to hell, but not a stake or a yard, and in general nothing has been done. Revolutionaries are always dreamers, especially in the combination of security and idleness. And the leader dreamed of how the armed people would follow the course indicated by the Bolsheviks - to destroy the bourgeoisie, owners, exploiters, to socialize everything and create socialism.
- And so - for all the warring armies! Against the bourgeoisie of all European countries! It's on fire!
- It's a brilliant moment! Capitalism organizes the proletariat, gathers it together, prepares it for independent management of all production and further the state. And imperialism, as the highest stage of capitalism, gathers this proletariat into gigantic armies, disciplines and arms its gravedigger!
- Comrades. As Marx rightly pointed out, and Engels argued, and we all understand, socialism must first win in the most industrialized countries, where the most numerous and class-conscious proletariat. But general war gives another possibility. A military coup becomes at the same time a proletarian, revolutionary coup. The army today is the proletariat! The main thing is to take power! And then - flare up! Let's start with our country.
- And how nice it would be to start directly from Switzerland, comrades! ..
coup setting, civil war, the world revolution - settled in the brains of these revolutionaries, dreamers, lumpen, idlers, fanatics, losers, parasites, ambitious people, guardians of the people and justice.
“Of course, the ruling class will never give up its positions without a fight, comrades. The capitalist will never give up his property without fierce resistance. The suppression of resistance is inevitable.
3. Switzerland - brutal dear country. And professional revolutionaries did not want to work categorically. Firstly, against the bourgeoisie, and secondly, all forces are needed for the struggle. Well, there were also schizoid patrons from the capitalists with socialist sympathies (what?!), and the genius of making money out of thin air Parvus tossed on a beer. But with the beginning of the war, the streams blocked and dried up. A coat, a bicycle, a rent, dinners in “inexpensive restaurants” - didn’t you think, did the grandmother take away?
Means. Mirbach was the German ambassador to Switzerland. Yes, yes, the same Count Mirbach, who in 1918 will be the German ambassador to Soviet Russia, and who will be removed - who? Blumkin? so he was a Chekist, huh?
Ambassador to Switzerland - an important post! all nodes of European politics and intelligence! established connections, channels! war is coming! - suddenly transferred to Moscow. Yeah. To their Bolsheviks. Through Mirbach there were negotiations and money!
It was clearly and long ago written to the drunken hedgehog: the Bolsheviks need power in Russia - the Germans need to withdraw Russia from the war. The coincidence of goals is the basis for any political union.
Give us money! And we will save you from a war on two fronts! And we will return all debts! The power will be ours! - Gut. We can give you money. We will help your revolution. But after the victory, you will pay us ... now we will discuss the points of our agreement.
German money, given into Bolshevik hands, financed a policy that frankly declared the transfer of an external war into an internal, civil one.
4. What is a civil war? This is an armed internal conflict, stretched in time and space. What is a revolution? This is a more or less armed conflict, which is resolved by a change in the political and social structure of power.
I.e. It can be said. That when you start a social revolution. And anticipate the inevitable resistance of people who will lose a lot on this. And there are many such people. You start a revolution as the first stage of the process, and at the same time and thereby you start a civil war as the second stage of the process.
It all depends on your program. How many discontented will you turn against you. The more breaking the way of life and consciousness you assume, the more extensive reforms you plan and the sooner, the more violence you are ready to use to achieve your goals - the tougher and more inevitable you are programming a civil war.
The Civil War is the October Revolution, stretched out in time. A civil war is an unwillingness to obey your orders, an unwillingness to carry out your programs, an unwillingness to live according to the laws you proclaim, an unwillingness to recognize your authority as legitimate.
5. We can say that October Revolution was the first act of the civil war. Violation of civil peace. Denying the possibility of civil consent. A fundamental rejection of civil reconciliation. Refusal to go to the general civil agreement. The beginning of an armed struggle with fellow citizens who want to live differently than you. - Not counting the attempted armed coup on July 4 ...
And now, after realizing that the Bolsheviks were programmed by the Civil War, let's take a look at its main points. This look is breathtaking and jaw dropping. Detectives are resting, thrillers have dried up, it's minefield acrobatics and sex on nails.

OCTOBER COUP

1. Great mystery. On the historic October night of the coup, the brilliant leader of the proletariat, Lenin, reached Smolny - with his bald wig, bandaged cheek and false passport - through cadet patrols and Cossack patrols only at five o'clock in the morning. When everything was already over: the Winter Palace was taken, the government was arrested, the telegraph and railway stations were busy. The "political prostitute" Trotsky supervised everything.
2. The leader instantly wrote the "Decree on the Land": to divide and distribute equally to the property. “Vladimir Ilyich, but this is the agrarian program of the Socialist-Revolutionaries!” The Bolsheviks had in mind the creation of communes! “And we won’t give up the peasant to any esegs, my friend!” Lenin made a cheerful gesture.
3. Soldiers of the capital's garrison, soldiers of the rear and spare parts - did not want to go to the front! The Soviets of Soldiers' (and Sailors') Deputies decreed: "Down with the capitalist ministers!" "A world without annexations and indemnities!" (There will be "peace" for them soon ... They will have indemnities paid by Russia to Germany ...)
4. The anarchists enjoyed the greatest influence in the navy. In the army - Socialist-Revolutionaries. It was they who were the main driving force behind the coup, and the establishment of Soviet power, and the initial period of the Civil War.
5. But the detachments of the Red Guard - armed and organized worker militants, to which deserters joined - from the beginning of summer were organized under the leadership of the Bolsheviks. And through the Bolsheviks, the Red Guards received a salary - from the German treasury.
6. "The great socialist revolution, the need for which the Bolsheviks have been talking about for so long, has taken place!" Socialists - these were: socialist democrats - Bolsheviks and Mensheviks, socialist revolutionaries - "Socialist-Revolutionaries" - left and right, they were more numerous and influential than their fellow "Social Democrats", as well as anarcho-communists, anarcho-syndicalists and in general anarchists of all subspecies - they professed the people's self-government, that is, at that stage they were akin to the socialists: they denied the state in general, but the overthrown state was bourgeois, and they were all “for the common people”.

"DEMON OF REVOLUTION" TROTSKY

1. It was he who, in the battles of 1905, was the chairman of the St. Petersburg Council, and was arrested, tried, imprisoned, exiled, fled - and only then emigrated.
2. By the way, it was he who, knowing half a dozen languages, drove reports from the Balkan War of 1912, which almost became a World War, and gained fame in European journalism.
3. Esdek, almost from childhood, after the split of the RSDLP into Bolsheviks and Mensheviks, he refused to join the factions, remaining a "mezhrayontsy".
4. Arriving in Petrograd from the USA three weeks later than Lenin, after Lenin's long persuasion, he joined his group with the Bolsheviks: he was impressed by their determination and maximalism.
5. And he is elected chairman of the Petrograd Soviet of workers, peasants, soldiers, sailors and Cossacks, in the end, damn it, deputies. And does not hide the course to seize power, and does not hide the decision social issues through civil war.
6. After the failed coup on July 4 and the publication of documents on the maintenance of the Bolsheviks by the German General Staff, when Lenin and Zinoviev are hiding from arrest, Trotsky appears in court and goes to prison as the second-oldest leader of the RSDLP (b). The ingenious leader and strategist Lenin is more valuable for the party, remaining at large, - and Trotsky in court and prison personifies innocence, courage and suffering for the people of the same party of selfless fighters: we are right and pure, and the bourgeois democrats repress us so that the people have no defenders !
7. He comes out of prison after the "Kornilov rebellion" (another farce pumped up by historians) - and heads the Petrograd Soviet, and directs the specific preparations for an armed coup.
8. Guess which line was deleted in all editions of Mayakovsky's poem "Good" after Trotsky's expulsion from the USSR in 1929 (given here without the "ladder" to save space):

“Comrade Stalin is calling you,
third to the right, he is there.
“Comrades, don’t stop, why are you standing up?
To the armored cars and to the Post Office on the orders of Comrade Trotsky!”
"There is!" - turned and disappeared soon.
And only on the tape near the naval one flashed under the lamp: "Aurora".

Even at school, everyone was a little bit offended that the "naval" did not have a rhyme. Well, Lighthouse, chopped-bito, this and that ...
This - in 1927, on the 10th anniversary of Soviet Power, it was written, Trotsky was already expelled from all posts, and still Mayakovsky did not consider it right and possible not to mention him. (In vain, by the way ... Stalin absolutely hated Trotsky.)
9. The most important thing after the coup is peace with Germany. Trotsky is appointed People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs. And the treaty with the Germans “rubbers” as much as possible: it’s a pity to give them a lot, and it’s impossible not to give, and the war may soon end in the defeat of Germany, and a revolution may take place there ... Pull!!
10. It was he who in the spring of 1918 was appointed People's Commissar of the Navy. And restores the system of military registration and enlistment offices that was destroyed. And creates the Red Army! And he personally writes the text of the Military Oath: “I, the son of the working people ...” This oath, almost unchanged, is taken by young people in Russian Army and today!
11. He is absolutely pragmatic. Absolutely cynical. Absolutely ruthless. He is a brilliant organizer and tough administrator. He is the first speaker of this era, so rich in fiery speakers. Arrogant, ambitious and incredibly energetic. From such material the leaders of the bloody times are made.
12. He introduced the repression of the families of conscripted soldiers and military experts for their desertion! Millions served in the Red Army: otherwise the family would be shot. He managed to attract (under fear!) officers to the R.K.K.A.
13. It was he who invented the symbol of power: the hammer and sickle. It was he who established the Order of the Red Banner and corrected the sketch and model. It was his portraits that hung in the Red corners of all military units and divisions.
14. He lived in his famous super special train: salon, bathhouse, headquarters, armored platforms, anti-aircraft guns and machine guns, cars in cars and guards from sailors with formidable special emblems on the sleeves of pea jackets: “Train of the Pre-revolutionary Military Council”. This was more feared by the Cheka.
15. He had a fantastically anecdotal romantic indulgence from Lenin: “Everything done by Comrade Trotsky is unconditionally supported by me, and all his orders must be unquestioningly carried out, as if they were personally mine. Presovnarkom Ulyanov (Lenin). That's it.
16. He enjoyed practical activities, creating the World Revolution with his own hands. Intra-Party squabbles, intra-apparatus struggles, the sharing of crumbs from the pie of power - were uninteresting to him, petty, boring, he despised them. He and Lenin made up a brilliant tandem: Lenin had the strategic leadership of the party, the course of the country, top cadres, internal and foreign policy. Trotsky, on the other hand, specifically directed the victory of the Civil War, the creation of armies, the gathering of territories, and the pushing of enemies head-on. Two faces of God: with a suit and tie in the Kremlin, the Almighty - and with a leather jacket and a revolver at the fronts, the Almighty.
17. With the end of the Civil War - Lenin died (left power in insanity), and at the same time the dazzling star of Trotsky went down: the business where he was a genius disappeared, the partner in which he was omnipotent disappeared, the party was reborn, which no longer needed talent , competitor, leader. Fine. The apparatus always eats the conquistadors.

THE FIRST STEPS OF YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN

So, they took power. Well?
1. So, yes. The provisional government was the legitimate state power. And the Soviets were self-governing bodies of civil society. And civil society shackled the state. It would be correct to say so. (So that liberal idiots don’t think that “civil society” is the protection of green spaces and the planting of corrupt officials based on complaints from workers.)
2. The new government begins to hastily consolidate: detachments of the Red Guard occupy post offices, locomotive depots, and arsenals. The resisting officers and policemen are shot on the spot. And even without resistance: the law is resting, prisons are open, and criminals inspire fear in wealthy neighborhoods. And here is the slogan of the new government: "Rob the loot"!
On October 26, the Supreme Ataman of the Don Cossack Army, General Kaledin, disperses all the soviets on his territory, which is his answer to a telegram from Petrograd to recognize the new government. Do not recognize! Declares allegiance to the legitimate Provisional Government and calls everyone who has remained true to honor and oath to come to the Don. Let's get stronger, let's go and kick the impostors to hell! Insolent German spies!
3. In fact, all moderate parties were indignant. What the heck? There was a month left before the meeting of the All-Russian Constituent Assembly: that is, all over the country, the people elected deputies, they went to the capital, and there they voted, electing a parliament among themselves, which formed a new government, adopted a new constitution, and in general everything is extremely fair, democratic and reasonable. Well?!
October 27 - instantly! - 20 newspapers that criticized the Bolsheviks were banned. This is the "Decree on the Press", issued by the urgently formed Council of People's Commissars. Lenin remembered his article "Where to Begin" about the role of the newspaper as a propagandist and organizer.
4. On November 2, the "Declaration of the Rights of the Peoples of Russia" was adopted - on the equality of all nations and the right of each to self-determination. Russian empire declared a prison of nations, the doors are wide open: an invitation to collapse. The new government is the defender of the independence of each and every one from each other and from the center. That immediately attracts all the nationalists of the empire to the side of the Soviet government and encourages them to enter sovereignty. The state is falling apart - as if the braces were knocked out.
After that - on the same day - the senior chief of staff of the Headquarters Western Front in Mogilev, General Dukhonin declares himself commander-in-chief of all troops and gives the order to prepare for a campaign against Petrograd: to eliminate the usurpers and restore legitimate power. Well... the soldiers, corrupted by the tri-power of the era of the Provisional Government (commander - government commissar - chairman of the soldiers' council), do not want to go anywhere. Fuck the difficulty.
At the same time, Kornilov, Denikin, Alekseev and others, who were sitting there after the "Kornilov rebellion", were released from the Bykhov garrison prison - and they made skis to Novocherkassk to Kaledin.
5. No one believes that the Bolsheviks will sit for a long time! They are a minority both in the Soviets, and in the army, and everywhere. No institutions want to cooperate with them! Their orders are not carried out: neither railroad workers, nor telegraph operators, nor bank clerks, nor printers, nor merchants. Yes? So?! And then - in the very first few weeks: the Council of People's Commissars introduces a state monopoly on all trade in everything. Give everything only to their “state”, and it already disposes of all the good: to whom to sell, to whom to distribute, to whom a fig and at what price in what volumes. Moreover, a program is being implemented by emergency, fire measures: purchase and sale, comrades, are reactionary-bourgeois relations, but it is necessary - the state expropriates all products and goods for free, and itself distributes them - distributes - to those who deem it necessary. And “trading by hand” is speculation for the purpose of private gain: this is a violation of the law, and this is a crime! - AND? - Red Guard patrols shoot "speculators", all goods instantly disappear from circulation, in a matter of weeks hunger and cold begin in the cities.
6. And at the same time - a ban on any real estate transactions. If someone decides to sell their housing (and even more so the building of the company) and dump - fuck you. All buildings and premises, palaces and huts - are declared under the control of the "state". (Which does not exist, which is just a bunch of desperate impostors, and they outlawed the real Russian state! Non-existent!) - And? - In an instant, “settlements” and “seals” begin: class-wise, their proletarians are moved into the apartments of the “bourgeois”. And the bourgeois, comrades, are doctors, and teachers, and lawyers, and employees, everyone who has an apartment of several rooms. "House committees" are formed urgently by order, and these house committees, under the control of a commissioner appointed by the district council, issue warrants for "housing". Based on: one family - one room. And it's okay. Commune, brother! And the apartments are communal. And the kitchen, and the toilet - one for all. (This has never been heard before... A new life!)
7. And grandmother? Is the money expensive? Lave where? Cabbage, redhead, tugriks? Firstly, we ourselves desperately need them - to pay the Red Guards, the commissars, the commissioners. Secondly, the Germans must be paid astronomically according to the agreements. Thirdly, everything is evil from money - it is the source of bourgeois relations as opposed to the state distribution of everything according to the communist model. With money, a person does what he wants! But it is necessary - so that he does what we need, otherwise we will not let him eat.
And "organize" the expropriation of currency, jewelry, etc. from the "exploiting classes" - from everyone who is not a proletarian. And the Red Guard patrols with a bunch of search warrants issued in the Soviets gut the apartments according to the lists. And in that Red Guard, not only workers, soldiers and sailors (of any political sympathies so far), but also pure criminals, all the more so since they were all released from prison: they enroll in the Red Guard to fill their pockets.
- Steal the loot! - a cheerful robber whistle is carried from Smolny.
- The main thing for us now, my friend, is paramount to break the resistance of the exploiting classes, to deprive them of their livelihood!
8. And then the new government nationalizes all banks, bank deposits, assets and liabilities, deposits and the contents of bank safes and cells. Order. Mauser!!! Seizure of all valuables.
And why were sailors planted as bank directors? And because the bank staff in full force to issue money and generally refused to cooperate. What's the money for? Why? For what? On what basis? But there are legitimate owners, comrades! - Revolution, bourgeois bastards! Where are the keys?!
9. Vikzhel is the All-Russian Executive Committee of Railway Communications. In vast Russia - the most necessary and powerful organization. Tracks, locomotives, rolling stock, depots, coal depots and railway stations. Vikzhel refused to cooperate with the new "authority". Vikzhel dispersed to hell. This gigantic “trade union” mainly consisted of: machinists with stokers, loaders with linemen, repairmen with dispatchers. Do you want to work for us?! Nothing, let's do it.
10. That's why on December 7, 1917, the Council of People's Commissars creates an Extraordinary Commission to Combat Counter-Revolution and Sabotage. And she is given unlimited powers up to execution on the spot. Without any trials and consequences. The trial is a hypocritical and senseless bourgeois procedure. And for us, the execution of class alien elements and counter-revolutionaries is simply an administrative measure. And the term is introduced: "Administrative execution."
And the Cheka begins to bring the people into obedience with terror and horror. They are shot for selling a loaf of bread and a golden ring. For the fact that there is no coal for the locomotive: "Sabotage!" For refusing to open a bank vault. For failure to appear for "labor service": the workers scattered, and the "bourgeois" rewritten by the house committees were driven in formation to unload firewood, clear the streets from snow and, in general, like fifteen-day workers. Yes, in general, slapping a person becomes a pair of empty ones.

URITSKY AND THE HOSTAGES

During the October upheaval in Moscow, the cadets with officers and in general the high school students with students resisted the Red Guard and the soldiers. Well, if possible, this counter-revolutionary bastard was shot, of course.
Among others, retired staff captain Vilenkin, who refused to take off his epaulettes and crosses, was slapped. And Vilenkin was the chairman of the society of retired Jewish officers St. George Knights. (The times were new, military, and the Jews received the right to serve in junior officer ranks - Vilenkin was the senior in rank.)
The Jew and revolutionary, Social Revolutionary Leonid Kanegisser, as a revolutionary revenge for this brutal murder of an innocent person and a Jew, shot another Jew and revolutionary, Social Democrat Moisei Uritsky, chairman of the Petrograd Cheka. The Cheka declared this an unheard-of atrocity of the counter-revolution, which now in general must tremble under the punishing sword of the revolution. And in retaliation, like terror, she shot a thousand inhabitants snatched from the mass.

TO DUKHONIN HEADQUARTERS

And at this very time! - in the first weeks after October! - everything rushed and twisted in parallel, simultaneously, quickly, flaky, mixed up! - everything was superimposed on one another!
On the military side, this is what happened:
1. The Bolsheviks continued to take money from the Germans - for the salaries of the Red Guard, for newspapers, for the apparatus, this and that. The Germans were already kicking their feet: where is peace? where are the reparations? where is the promise?
2. And on November 7, having made sure that the troops under the command of Dukhonin were not in any hurry to go to Petrograd, to fight with someone there and to participate in something not very clear and goepod-revolutionary, - making sure that the decomposition of the troops by agitators and anarchy continues , - Lenin sends an order to Dukhonin !! Well done Lenin! This is how a revolutionary should behave with trash - firmly, commandingly, with an ultimatum! You didn't recognize me? Dog... And I order you! Do it! - and maybe I will forget your disobedience and include you in the circle actors. Feel the atmosphere, feel the rhythm of the relationship!
Order: immediately begin negotiations with the command of the Austro-German troops on a general truce. Dukhonin, sitting at the Headquarters headquarters among his troops, refuses. Categorically, briefly, contemptuously. Fuck there freaks in St. Petersburg ... Refuses.
3. Dukhonin is given a day to change his mind. After that, the new government announces to him: you are displaced! Removed! Suspended, lol!
Well, well ... Dukhonin remains where he is. Not removed. He was appointed by the legitimate government, took command according to the Charter, and they are rebels and mercenaries.
You understand: Germany is already going crazy, suffocating, not today or tomorrow it will capitulate - so why were all the sacrifices and efforts for the sake of it? We are winners! Peace with the enemy on the eve of his inevitable surrender is a mixture of idiocy and betrayal! This is in the interests of Germany - against the interests of Russia! Even if we simply hold the front, without movements, without battles, we will chain the German troops to us, we will be among the winners together with England and France, we will withdraw money from the Boches and Magyars to lick the exhausted economy, etc.
4. Yeah. Dreaming. Balda in stripes. The next day, November 10, 1917, the Council of People's Commissars issues a Decree on the demobilization of the army. (!!!)
All. There is no reception against scrap. Now all the soldiers are for the new government. The whole army abandons the front, wraps around the trains and goes home.
The front is not exactly naked. The front ceases to exist.
(And at the same time! With one blow! "The victorious march of Soviet power"! The soldiers coming home - mostly peasants, less workers in the cities - instantly establish the power of the soviets in unison with the Petrograd ones. Take the land, death to the bourgeoisie, no war! business.) So pigeons with wicks on their tails fly under the eaves in their nests - and the city blazes at once.
This is how big politics is done, gentlemen, frail intellectuals.
So at the same time they took money from Germany for this! Completed the contract and received gratitude. Is the mechanic's hitch understandable?
5. They have been looking for a candidate for a new commander-in-chief for a week and they cannot find it! The generals have disappeared, the officers are in the cracks, there is no one! In desperation, they appoint the commander-in-chief of the armed forces of Russia ... an ensign. Revolution and Civil War are always a hybrid of a bloody tragedy and a cretin joke, it is full of black humor.
We note right away that wartime warrant officer Krylenko does not last long in the commanders-in-chief, Comrade Trotsky will establish a way to attract colonels and generals to the cause. And Krylenka will go out, he will be needed in another matter.
But for now - he arrives in Mogilev with a detachment of Baltic sailors and Latvian riflemen, arrests the headquarters, shoots at the headquarters, Dukhonin is pinned with bayonets right in the office.
So the whole Civil characteristic phrase goes around: "Send to Dukhonin's headquarters." It is "to the Mogilev province." It's "to the left". "To the expense." To the wall. And already rare: "To the Moon." So the first moons are ours.

CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY

And what is the trick, what is the catch of Lenin's famous phrase about the uprising: "Yesterday it was early, tomorrow it will be late"? And the fact that yesterday Kornilov approached the walls with troops, and the rebellion would have been crushed to the root, one must play up and be humble with Kerensky. And tomorrow - there will be elections to the Constituent Assembly, that is, a legitimate parliament, and the Bolsheviks will have an insignificant minority there, and to throw off such a parliament will all instantly unite to bite your neck, this is already an impudent usurpation of truly popular lawful power. And the Cadets with the Socialist-Revolutionaries and Mensheviks will lead Russia along the path of parliamentary democracy and Western civilized socialism. And the chance will be missed! So in addition, Austria-Hungary, bursting at the seams, was ready on October 25 to sign a separate peace with the Provisional Government!
1. Everything was ready for the elections! And they took place on the previously appointed date: November 12, 1917! Two weeks after the October coup. And the Bolsheviks and the Soviets had no reason to cancel them. And there was no way to cancel. They would dare the stranglers of people's freedom. Soviets are Soviets, and parliament is parliament.
And the Bolsheviks, together with all the parties, went to the polls. And they didn't do well...
First place - Socialist-Revolutionaries. On average - 40% of the votes.
In second place in the cities are the Constitutional Democrats, the Cadets.
In the national provinces, local nationalist parties that have recently emerged are in the lead everywhere.
The Bolsheviks won 23% of the vote. There can be no talk of any parliamentary majority.
2. On November 28, two weeks after the elections, the Constituent Assembly should solemnly open! This date has been set a long time ago. A new era of freedom, democracy and democracy begins.
The new Petrograd authorities are postponing the opening ... to next year - to January! Under the pretext of a small number of delegates gathered.
Demonstrations in support of the Constituent Assembly are taking place along the streets of St. Petersburg! Banners are carried by employees, workers, servants and attendants - everything! .. (But there is no organization! But the Provisional Government is no more! And the newspapers were all covered up! And in the entrances and at the crossroads - Red Guard patrols: lumpen with revolvers, soldiers peeling seeds with rifles , sailors in bell-bottoms, hung with bombs and crossed with machine-gun belts.)
3. On the same day, November 28, the Council of People's Commissars issues a decree declaring the Kadet Party "enemies of the people." Their leaders are subject to arrest and tribunal. And do not fucking protest, resting against the new government!
(Socialist-Revolutionaries and Mensheviks were also in the Soviets, you can’t ban them. And the anarchists deny all these parliaments-republics of the state in principle - and they themselves are also fellow travelers for the Bolsheviks for the time being. But the Cadets can be arrested - they interfere with us, and we have to forces.) A place is being cleared in parliament! Influential dissenters are physically removed from political life!
4. January 3, 1918. The grand opening and start of work of the popularly elected Russian parliament is getting closer. And the All-Russian Central Executive Committee, the working body of the Soviets, adopts an amiable resolution. By this resolution, the Constituent Assembly is deprived of all power in advance. He is assigned a place like our current (2007) State. Duma.
“... All power belongs to the Soviets and Soviet institutions. Any attempt by any other institution to appropriate any functions state power- there is a counter-revolution, and will be suppressed by all means, including armed force. The tasks of the Constituent Assembly are exhausted by the general development of the fundamental foundations for the socialist reorganization of society.
Like this. Root foundations can be developed. And we'll look at them ... But it's not!
5. January 4, 1918 - on the eve of the opening of the Constituent Assembly - martial law is introduced in Petrograd. All rallies and demonstrations are prohibited.
6. On the morning of January 5, demonstrations begin to march around the city in support of the Constituent Assembly - its opening, free activity, immunity of deputies, compliance with previous agreements and universal mutual promises to do everything in fairness, equality of all parties, estates and individuals, etc.
Moreover, the official and the layman are cautious and cowardly. Work columns are marching along the pavements! The proletarians know that the revolution belongs to them, that the working class is in charge of it! The class of new masters, in the consciousness of their hegemony, marches in the middle of the streets.
The Red Guards shoot and disperse these demonstrations. "Provocateurs, hirelings of the bourgeoisie, accomplices, enemies, traitors to the revolutionary proletarian cause! .." There were a lot of speakers, neurosis was an epidemic.
7. January 5, 4 p.m. The Constituent Assembly opens. He, of course, has a prepared agenda. And it refuses to break its agenda and first of all discuss and adopt the “Declaration of the Rights of the Working and Exploited People” prepared by the Bolsheviks. In the declaration of that, the "dictatorship of the proletariat" was framed. So representatives of all parties and estates were offered legally, legitimately, that is, to introduce it. They don't want, bitches, to introduce the dictatorship of the proletariat themselves!
Little of. The Assembly is invited to swear allegiance to the Soviet government! This is a fine move on the part of the Bolsheviks. An assembly that is completely legitimate from any point of view, with such an oath, will make the Soviet government even more legitimate than itself! It would, as it were, sanctify the legitimacy of the October Revolution. (And having become more legitimate than the Assembly, the Council of People's Commissars will do whatever it wants with the Assembly a little later, this is quite understandable. Or - the Assembly will be offered to legitimize all the actions of the Council of People's Commissars: and where will it go, it swore itself!)
Armed men roam the hall. From the balconies, the Bolsheviks openly make fun of the helpless intellectuals. Shouts, threats and swearing from the seats.
At night, by order of the chairman of the Central Balt, Dybenko, the head of the guard sent by the Petrograd Soviet to protect the Constituent Assembly, the anarchist sailor of the second article, Zheleznyak, orders the Assembly to disperse: "The guard is tired."
8. On the morning of January 6, the Council of People's Commissars closes the Constituent Assembly. And no shooting with tank guns. Frightened, dispersed and closed.
... Is it so surprising that the supporters of the Constituent Assembly as the legitimate All-Russian power, overthrown by force contrary to law, were in the ranks of the Resistance throughout the Civil War? ...
(But the phrase “Constituent Assembly” is not good: it’s not simple, it’s not short, it’s not expressive, it doesn’t magnetize and doesn’t inspire. There is something bureaucratic, teacher-like, clerical, chicanery in it ... re-read it. Tyagomotin, rows of clerical chairs, thick protocols ", formalism. There is no emphasis! "Sovnarkom"! "Revolutionary Military Council"! All-Russian Central Executive Committee! And you know what? ... The lack of energy of names always finds expression in the lack of energy of those who call themselves them. Lethargy, narrow-mindedness, routine. Not eagles, not tigers! Oh, no they were destined to win with such a name. Still cavemen - they understood the power and meaning of the word. The vein was frail among the Russian liberal democrats ...
So do not laugh down at the naive expression of self-names: "International Flying Deadly Sailor Detachment of Proletarian Wrath!!!" While you are laughing, they will spank you like seeds peel. And alcohol with cocaine will be grabbed for the World Revolution.)

BREST SURRENDER

1. Remember? - November 10, 1917 Council of People's Commissars demobilizes the army. In a month it spread completely to homes, and Soviet power was proclaimed in distant villages and everywhere in general.
2. And so, on December 12, the Bolshevik delegation in Brest-Litovsk, a frontier city as long as the Russians had a front, begins negotiations with the German and Austrian command.
3. What is the meaning of the slogan put forward by Trotsky, the People's Commissariat of Foreign Affairs and the head of the Soviet delegation: "Neither peace nor war"? It means: pull the rubber as far as possible. What for? And then, that Germany is already dying in an unequal war. The United States entered the war with all its economic potential. The Germans have bandages made of paper, rutabaga jam, seventeen-year-old boys in the trenches. Another month - and the end of the Fritz! And then all the agreements about giving the Germans mountains of this and that for the services rendered to the Bolsheviks - the agreements will be invalid! And now - there is nothing to keep them in case of a conflict! ..
Did we promise them to disband the army and withdraw from the war? Get it - please: the army is disbanded, there is no war, what else do you need? Then you can play the fool: and so the world is with us, what other agreements and concessions do you need?
The normal intention is to outsmart and deceive a partner who has already been taken advantage of, but who is still dangerous in anger - yet.
4. Trotsky makes a proposal: but the world without any annexations, indemnities and claims! BUT? This is even now.
But. Germany is suffocating without raw materials, without food, without money. America-England-France will strangle it very soon - if you do not suck bread, coal, iron, gold from Russia: after all, you and I envisaged peace and an economic union! But why are you spinning and yulite, gentlemen? ... Romanians and Magyars -. those still warriors, the Czechs are fleeing, Austria-Hungary is not that assistant ... Well?
And the Germans make a response proposal: we will make peace without annexations and indemnities with you, if the rest of the countries also agree to it. All at once - then we please.
Okay. The Council of People's Commissars makes such a proposal to all the warring powers: but our working people have a peace initiative - universal peace without annexations and indemnities. Great gesture !! It is clear: England-France-USA will not agree to this, because what the hell? we have already won, the enemy has been defeated, all the advantages are in your pocket, it remains only to be patient a little and put the squeeze on the situation. But we will pull the time! And we will show our peacefulness! .
Such a peace would be a miracle salvation for Germany, so you can try, but what are we risking, the Germans, that is?
Of course, this proposal is rejected by the Entente. But we are running out of time!
5. January 15 Council of People's Commissars adopts a decree "On the organization of the Workers 'and Peasants' Red Army."
Eh? Aha! The old one is broken. Are you dissatisfied with something, gentlemen Germans? So we will create an army again and close the front. Well, have you become more accommodating? Entente is finishing you off!
In general, the Germans are in despair. They already understand that they are being thrown cynically. They need to remove all troops from Eastern Front and throw them at the Western, where the disaster ends! And how will you remove the troops if they even refuse to make peace with you here? And the Bolsheviks demonstratively create an army - what, threatening to hit us when we expose the front? We are familiar with their theory of tomorrow's world revolution. They will carry Bolshevik happiness on Russian bayonets to a German house. Oh, sly Asians!
6. On January 27, the Bolsheviks receive a strong blow in Brest-Litovsk, and the position of Germany is greatly improved.
On November 7, the Ukrainian Socialist Rada announced the Ukrainian People's Republic not recognizing the Petrograd Soviet power. On January 24, the Rada declared the independence of Ukraine. On January 26, the Reds entered Kyiv and executions began. The Rada, which has fled from Kyiv, hastily sends its independent delegation to Brest. Germany instantly recognizes the independence of Ukraine. And the Rada signs peace with the Germans on their terms. At the same time!
We give you bread, ore, coal, oil, lard, canvas. You - enter your garrisons and provide support for our independence from the bloody Muscovites. Deal?
7. From such diplomacy, obscene abuse flies even from the lips of angels. In the camp of the Bolsheviks there is an ardent squabble. Trotsky insists that we must continue to pull: all the same, Germany will soon collapse and leave everywhere. Kolya-balabolka Bukharin preaches a revolutionary war: the Germans will be saturated with proletarian propaganda and will carry the revolution home. The fastest thinking and reorganizing Lenin hysterically demands to accept the world: any of their conditions, but at least we save what we can, there is no one to rely on, we cannot defend ourselves! They yell at Lenin that this is his ultimatum to Ukraine about giving up independence and recognizing it as the Council of People's Commissars, plus the subsequent red punishers - they pushed Ukraine into the arms of the Germans! (A terrible Soviet historical secret!) Balabolka Bukharin convinces us that by accepting humiliation from the Germans, we will lose the trust of the masses and we will have the revolutionary impulse fading, and this is the end of everything: the psychology of the masses is a material factor in the revolutionary struggle.
8. On February 18, 1918, having prepared the rear for the march, understanding the calculation of the Bolsheviks and having an agreement with Ukraine in their pocket, the German and Austrian units go on the offensive along the entire front from the Baltic to the Danube.
Strictly speaking, this is not an offensive. Offensive is a type of military action. And here the Germans are just marching, occupying vast territories. No regular units oppose them. And in general, no parts oppose. Echelons are moving, infantry columns and horse carts are moving. In some places, garrisons are left to provide communications.
I.e. On February 18, the Germans set in motion, spreading their military presence and power to the east along the entire width of the Russian Empire.
9. On February 23, the Germans occupy a vast territory, including Pskov, Minsk, etc. And they stop expectantly. They have very few people and forces. The main thing is not to borrow, but to use it wisely.
(A detachment of Red Guards and Red Army men under the command of Dybenko, after a single skirmish with the Germans, runs far and fast. Dybenko was afraid of execution for his exploits for a long time and hid far away.)
There is hysteria in the Soviet leadership. Lenin shouts that the head of the party has degenerated into blockheads, he will come out from everywhere and address the people directly if we do not make peace. This is a strong argument. Everyone sees that the people categorically do not want to fight with anyone. And he will follow anyone, just to stay at home and farm on his own land.
10. On February 24, the Council of People's Commissars and the All-Russian Central Executive Committee accept all the conditions of the ultimatum that the German-Austrians rolled out to them yesterday. These conditions are much harder than those that the Germans wanted to get in Brest ... The barrel under the nose is a strong argument.
They hang dogs on Trotsky: it was he who convinced that the Germans would soon not have the strength and reason to attack, so that negotiations could be dragged out calmly. They hang dogs on Lenin: it was he who ruined Ukraine with his categoricalness. They give Bukharin on the back of the head: it was he who yelled about pathos revolutionary war: admire how they drape! ..
11. March 3, 1918. Best deal day. The Bolsheviks arranged the affairs of the country in the best possible way. Peace treaty signed between Soviet Russia on the one hand - and Germany, Austria-Hungary, Turkey, Bulgaria on the other.
Russia gives Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia to the Germans. This is no longer Russia, this is a German sphere of interest, a kind of fleeting post-war protectorate.
Russia recognizes the independence and borders of Ukraine and Finland.
In Transcaucasia, Turkey receives most of Georgia with the cities of Kare, Ardagan and Batum. Turkey also gets two-thirds of Armenia. (All the Soviet people did not know that Mount Ararat and the Ararat valley - the heart and symbol of Armenia! - are actually in Turkey ...)
The Red Army is subject to immediate liquidation.
The fleet is to be transferred to the German side.
Captives - 3 million Russians and 2 million from the other side, mostly Austrian-Hungarian teams - Czechs, Magyars and other Serbs are returning to their homeland.
Russia is losing: 800 thousand square meters. kilometers (2 France!!!) with a population of 56 million people (a third of the total population of the Empire). Half of all cultivated areas. Lost 80% of coal and iron production. And six billion gold marks - monetary contribution.
12. This is equal to the crushing defeat. This is tantamount to an unprecedented betrayal of one's country and people. Did they promise peace? Get your world. Without annexations and indemnities? Here are annexations and indemnities.
It is not difficult to understand how “civil society” treated the new government after this capitulation - even in the summer Russia was in the position of a winner with quick benefits, and the Germans did not even make any efforts for their “victory”! .. Almost all educated, thinking, patriotic-minded part of the population had a new power for a gang of bandits, inept and mediocre in foreign policy, cruel and stupid in the inner.
"Civil Society" was wrong. The new government consisted of serious people who knew how to learn quickly and did not stop at absolutely nothing.

GOLD ECHELON

Expensive. Everyone remembers the old movie about the "Golden Echelon"? Cross-cutting motif of the Soviet epic about the Civil War. Russia's gold reserves, now young Soviet Republic. Two-axle wooden wagons of that time, boxes with gold bars, Siberian snow, guards, partisans, Kolchak, White Czechs, Cheka ... Several thousand pounds, that is, tens of tons. Feats, disinterestedness, the good of the people ...
Question! How did the gold of the state bank end up in the wagons in the middle of Siberia?! It lay in the basement vaults in the city of Petrograd. There were no whites in St. Petersburg, there were their own, the reds, the government. Who loaded the country's gold into wagons and drove it east?! And why?!
On March 8, 1918, the Council of People's Commissars and other All-Russian Central Executive Committee moved to Moscow. Away from sin. Petersburg is close to Pskov (Germans), Vyborg (Finns), Narva (Yudenich and Estonians). The situation is unsteady, unclear, fraught.
And in Moscow, it was uncomfortable! Differences were with the Germans! Power hung by a thread! There is nothing to eat, the country is ungovernable, the people are frantic. It would be nice to drain the gold over the hillock. Calm down. You never know. (Well, our times are no different from other times! ..)
Push it through the Black Sea port? There are independents, Germans and whites. Through Murmansk-Arkhangelsk?
The Finns sit next to the railway line, have a bite to eat - a couple of empty ones, and Western intelligence in Petrograd, by all the logic of things, should work hard! Well, Siberia, far from foreigners - yes, to Vladik? Or along the Chinese Eastern Railway to Harbin, and there we will deal with

Mikhail Veller, Andrey Burovsky

Civil History of Mad War

A short course in the civil history of mad war

History is a scroll of secrets retold by a fool on a broken phone. History is usually presented as a sequence of important events. At the same time, the logic and psychology of the internal process of these events is usually not taken into account - it remains outside the framework, is outside the interests of the historian. As a result, the historian often fails to distinguish the most important events from the ordinary ones. As a result, the reader receives the label "Horseradish in a pickle."

All this is not trifles, my dear Eisman! This is not even a trifle! - Papa Müller, the Gestapo, understood that the steel thread of motives driving human actions is sometimes attached to the most inconspicuous carnations!

History is written by the winners. And it turns into a report written down by the clerk under the dictation of the commander - for the judges-descendants and bosses: about our valor, the difficulties overcome and the vileness of enemies. The ends do not converge, but it flatters pride.

I will not talk about military intelligence analyst Vladimir Rezun, the damned traitor and famous writer Viktor Suvorov. He combined individual trifles into a mosaic, and the world gasped and historians howled from the resulting picture. Oh no: dig deeper:

The Greeks fought the Trojans, according to Homer and Schliemann. Everyone knows this. Yes? Yes? Yeah. And what? And Paris kidnapped Elena the Beautiful, the wife of one of the Greek kings, Menelaus. And why? But because earlier the three main Greek goddesses called on the most beautiful young man to resolve their doubts. They chose Paris as the most beautiful young man. And Athena, Aphrodite and Hera gave Paris an apple: give it to the most beautiful of us! Paris gave the apple to Aphrodite, and as a bonus for the service, he was gifted: the most beautiful woman in Greece will love him. It was Elena. So? The second well-known fact: the entire Mediterranean coast of Asia Minor, in the first place - the current Anatolian coast of Turkey - was the homeland of the Greeks. And Ephesus, and Miletus, and many less famous cities stood there in those days. In general, the Greeks migrated from east to west, and the Aegean Sea was inhabited by them from both coasts and throughout all the islands. Thales lived in Miletus. Herostratus lived in Ephesus. And Paris lived in Troy!!! And there was the same Greek as Menelaus and other Greeks!!! And all the inhabitants of Troy were also Greeks!!! And what - the Greek goddesses called on the barbarian to judge them ?! Or was Troy a barbarian enclave on Greek territory? Or some of the Greek gods did not patronize the Trojans?! For ease of distinction, Homer calls teams from a bunch of islands and storming places "Greeks", but "Trojans" are the same Greeks as all neighboring Spartans, Ithacans, Thebans, etc. It's like "Novgorodians" and all the troops of Ivan the Terrible "Russians" . Look, the "Trojans" and "Greeks" pray to the same gods and lead the same way of life, speaking the same language! And this absolutely self-evident truth is practically not taken into account by anyone. Homer said "Greeks and Trojans" - that's it, there's nothing to think about.

A person who cannot think, see and understand is not a historian. And so, an involuntary misinformer. Brainless enumerator of facts in arbitrary selections. History is meaningless to list. History must be understood.

And this is all the more difficult because, over time, the political reasons for lying are replaced by psychosocial ones. A person subconsciously needs to feel like a part of a great whole: a mighty people, great science, a brilliant football team. Just as one who looks into the mirror makes his face more significant and beautiful in order to be better, so he who looks into the mirror of history “makes himself a good face”! Oh no, little things: we’ll turn a little here, we don’t like this mole - we’ll cover it up, we’ll expose our chin - but this is our real chin!

And then the iron logic and crazy accidents of history disappear - and a meaningless archipelago remains on the surface. And the reader of such a story wonders: were all these figures fools? Why are they talking nonsense? Have you not seen what is visible and clear to me? They are not politicians and commanders, but goats! No, buddy... They just hid the motives and connections of their actions from you.

I. It would be nice for anyone who intends to take up history to make a tattoo on their arm - from the inside, neatly so, as a keepsake for themselves - a tattoo:

When.
With whom.
How much.
Why.
As a result of what.
What for.
What is the end goal.

Without answers to these eleven questions, history does not exist. For the silence of a part of the truth is a lie. And ignorance of the system of causes is stupidity. Don't let yourself be deceived, and don't let yourself be fooled.

Never in world history has there been an event equal to the Russian Civil War in scale, density, diversity and swiftness of what happened. For four years, dozens of states emerged, merged, separated and collapsed on one sixth of the earth's land. Dozens of peoples gained independence, fought for it with near and distant neighbors - and lost again. Dozens of political parties organized, formed alliances, banned each other and disappeared forever. Yesterday's scum of society ascended in tens of thousands to the ruling class, and yesterday's educated and hard-working people turned into state slavery and were deprived of all rights. Millions fled, millions were destroyed, cruelty assumed an unimaginable character, execution was qualified as an "administrative measure." The gigantic empire suddenly collapsed into nothingness without any influence from external enemies and was immediately restored to its former size, but already as a social experiment that was fantastic in its plans and hopes.

As long as the Russians live on earth, they will again and again return to comprehending their bloody and finest hour - their Great Civil War, finding in it all new reasons for pride in their valor and sorrow for innocent blood.

Mikhail Veller, Andrey Burovsky

Civil History of Mad War

I. It would be good for anyone who intends to study history to make a tattoo on their arm - from the inside, neatly so, as a keepsake for themselves.

M. VELLER, A. BUROVSKII

Civil History of Mad War

The Greeks fought the Trojans, according to Homer and Schliemann. Everyone knows this. Yes? Yes? Yeah. And what? “But Paris kidnapped Elena the Beautiful, the wife of one of the Greek kings, Menelaus. And why? But because earlier the three main Greek goddesses called on the most beautiful young man to resolve their doubts. They chose Paris as the most beautiful young man. And Athena, Aphrodite and Hera gave Paris an apple: hand it to the most beautiful of us! Paris gave the apple to Aphrodite, and as a bonus for the service he was gifted: the most beautiful woman in Greece will fall in love with him. It was Helena. So? The second well-known fact: the entire Mediterranean coast of Asia Minor, first of all - the current Anatolian coast of Turkey - it was the homeland of the Greeks. And Ephesus, and Miletus, and many less famous cities stood there in those days. In general, the Greeks migrated from east to west, and the Aegean Sea was settled by them from both shores and all over the islands Thales lived in Miletus. Herostratus lived in Ephesus. And Paris lived in Troy!!! And he was the same Greek as Menelaus and other Greeks!!! And all the inhabitants of Troy were Greeks too!!! And what - the Greek goddesses to themselves barbarian p dared to judge them?! Or was Troy a barbarian enclave on Greek territory? Or some of the Greek gods did not patronize the Trojans?! For ease of distinction, Homer calls teams from a bunch of islands and storming places "Greeks", but "Trojans" are the same Greeks as all neighboring Spartans, Ithacans, Thebans, etc. It's like "Novgorodians" and all the troops of Ivan the Terrible "Russians" . Look, the "Trojans" and "Greeks" pray to the same gods and lead the same way of life, speaking the same language! And this absolutely self-evident truth is practically not taken into account by anyone. Homer said "Greeks and Trojans" - that's it, there's nothing to think about.

I. It would be nice for anyone who intends to take up history to make a tattoo on their arm - from the inside, neatly so, as a keepsake for themselves - a tattoo:

6. How much.

7. Why.

9. As a result.

11. With what end goal.

1. Never in world history has there been an event equal to the Russian Civil War in scale, density, diversity and swiftness of what happened. For four years, dozens of states emerged, merged, separated and collapsed on one sixth of the earth's land. Dozens of peoples gained independence, fought for it with near and distant neighbors - and lost again. Dozens of political parties organized, formed alliances, banned each other and disappeared forever. Yesterday's scum of society ascended in tens of thousands to the ruling class, and yesterday's educated and hard-working people turned into state slavery and were deprived of all rights. Millions fled, millions were destroyed, cruelty assumed an unimaginable character, execution was qualified as an "administrative measure." The gigantic empire suddenly collapsed into nothingness without any influence from external enemies and was immediately restored to its former size, but already as a social experiment that was fantastic in its plans and hopes.

Empires pass and peoples disappear, but the roots of greatness stretch from the past and nourish with juices, allowing descendants to hold their heads high. History is immortality.

2. The Civil War was conceived and first planned in 1914. The year was drawing to a close, and the great war in Europe dragged on. (Soon it will be called the Great, and after the end it will be called the World War more often, and with the unfolding of World War II it will simultaneously become World War I.) It was then that Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov began to promote the thesis. Forty-four-year-old Lenin was wiry, energetic, and uncompromisingly asserted his leadership in the party company. The company drank beer in Switzerland, admiring the wonderful scenery, and the leader liked to pass a mug of light. And this thesis was like this, and a little later Lenin framed it in an article for the social democratic press: "Let's turn the imperialist war into a civil one!" The proletarian must turn away his bayonet from the proletarians of other countries in military uniform - and turn this bayonet against his own bourgeoisie! The people were given rifles and organized into the army. O! This army would be - yes, for socialist purposes!

M. VELLER, A. BUROVSKII

Civil History of Mad War

I. It would be nice for anyone who intends to take up history to make a tattoo on their arm - from the inside, neatly so, as a keepsake for themselves - a tattoo:

6. How much.

7. Why.

9. As a result.

11. With what end goal.

Empires pass and peoples disappear, but the roots of greatness stretch from the past and nourish with juices, allowing descendants to hold their heads high. History is immortality.

Life in Switzerland was, of course, safe, but boring. And Lenin is already years old to hell, but not a stake or a yard, and in general nothing has been done. Revolutionaries are always dreamers, especially in the combination of security and idleness. And the leader dreamed of how the armed people would follow the course indicated by the Bolsheviks - to destroy the bourgeoisie, owners, exploiters, to socialize everything and create socialism.

And so - for all the warring armies! Against the bourgeoisie of all European countries! It's on fire!

This is a brilliant moment! Capitalism organizes the proletariat, gathers it together, prepares it for independent management of all production and further the state. And imperialism, as the highest stage of capitalism, gathers this proletariat into gigantic armies, disciplines and arms its gravedigger!

Comrades. As Marx rightly pointed out, and Engels argued, and we all understand, socialism must first win in the most industrialized countries, where the most numerous and class-conscious proletariat. But the general war provides another possibility. A military coup becomes at the same time a proletarian, revolutionary coup. The army today is the proletariat! The main thing is to take power! And then - flare up! Let's start with our country.

And how nice it would be to start directly from Switzerland, comrades!...

The setting for a coup, a civil war, a world revolution - settled in the brains of these revolutionaries, dreamers, lumpen, idlers, fanatics, losers, parasites, ambitious people, guardians of the people and justice.

Of course, the ruling class will never give up its positions without a struggle, comrades. The capitalist will never give up his property without fierce resistance. The suppression of resistance is inevitable.