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The Russian Revolution was not won by spontaneous peasant uprisings
I've made several threads in the past dedicated to understanding coup d'etats, revolts, and civil wars. In general, I specialize in asymmetric politics. Or politics by any means.
In the course of my threads, one weird idea has come up again and again and I intend to debunk it. That idea is that the February and October revolutions in the Russian Empire and then in the Russian Republic were "people's revolts" and did not involve the military establishment in a critical way.
On many occasions I would be talking about the critical importance of the military establishment in successful revolutions in Iran, Venezuela, Cuba, Iraq, America, France, Thailand, etc. and someone would say "Oh yeah? Well what about the Russian Revolution?" That didn't involve the military."
This is simply preposterous and based on nothing but communist propaganda. Both the February and October revolutions involved the military establishment at every level. They were critical to the success of both revolutions to the extent that they simply would NOT have happened without the military. Yet this silly idea has come up so often that I feel the need to debunk it.
I will try to give a brief outline of the events and explain how critical to the success of the revolts the military was.
This is important for two major reasons.
1. It's the truth and the truth is always important. This retarded myth that the February and especially the October revolution were spontaneous people's revolts is absurd and based entirely on Marxist propaganda. Only the dumbest of the dumb on Zig Forums don't know this.
Why it persists on Zig Forums is because most Zig Forumsacks are not as interested in studying the works of Lenin and Trotsky and tend to focus more on the effects of the Bolshevik regime than its causes. Its mass extermination of the best and brightest and the ethnic cleansing of Ukrainians, Poles, and Germans. Thus many anons passively accept the Bolshevik narrative simply out of lack of a convincing alternative. We must stop doing this.
2. It is very important to look beyond the propaganda of the USSR and other revolutions to discern what makes a revolution succeed and what makes it fail. For are we not revolutionaries ourselves?
If we intend to transcend into the realm of revolutionary politics, it behooves us to let go of the myth of the spontaneous people's revolution and start noticing the mechanism of seizing power.
I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but no revolution in all of recorded history has succeeded without elements of the military establishment switching sides and joining the revolutionaries. The idea that random civilians can overthrow the government (and that is to say the MILITARY defending the government) without soliciting the aid and support from elements within the military is an idea completely absent from recorded history. The sooner we understand this, the better.
Another thing that I must point out is that the role of the jews in all of these events is as all encompassing as bacteria. The jews played such a pivotal role in destroying Russia that they were involved in basically every single event I will mention. However I will be focusing on the military aspect alone for sake of clarity. To get a better grasp of the jewish infection of the Russian Empire, read Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's "200 Years Together"