It didn’t happen all at once. It took a series of missteps by the provisional Kerensky government, and the war by the Czar, before the Communist Bolsheviks, lead by Lenin, seized the reins of power in the then capital of Russia, Petrograd, 100 years ago today.
Instead of dressing up as WWI era revolutionaries and reenacting the storming of the Winter Palace, they dressed up as WWII era Russian soldiers. That was when the Red Army paraded through the streets of Moscow in 1941 to celebrate the October Revolution, then marched right out of the city to defend it from the Nazis.
It almost happened here in 2016.
Interesting sidelight, all of Lenin’s financing came from Germany.
So it was communism?
Why do the progressives want communism here?
They must be insane
Well, that’s what they get for Russian into a revolution like that.
Socialism in ALL its forms is pure Evil. I pray to God that American Progressives will never again take power.
Looking back, every single Democrat president in the last 120 years was bad for our country – like Woodrow Wilson, Frank Roosevelt, Truman, the pill-popping womanizing Kennedy, Democrat Plantation slavemaster Lyndon Johnson, Iran-appeaser Jim Carter, the head of the Clinton Crime Family, and culminating in the Kenyan-born Manchurian Candidate B Hussein Obama.
What a waste of a huge Western nation.
A parade with no spectators!
Lenin and Molotov made a deal with Hitler so they could take power. Filthy scum of the earth. I’m certain both are burning in hell right now.
And the world owes it all to Kaiser Wilhelm, who financed it all & sent Lenin & Co in to make trouble for Cousin Nikolai.
Taking the 20th Century as a whole, I’ll argue with that the foolish war mongering Kaiser wrought far more sheer long term destruction than even Hitler. Whose emergence he also made possible.
Communism works, the Russians just got it wrong. See how well it is working in Cuba and Venezuela.
It was the Full Catastrophe! Hard to believe that any educated person would aspire to try this horrible system of government again. It’s a reflection of our failed public schools and universities that anyone seriously believes that Communism has ever improved things for anybody but the ruling elite.