880 (Part 5 of 10 Series) Relook at Bolshevik Revolution- Mr. Putin cannot justify his present mistakes by zooming the mistakes of Lenin

A friend of mine, who has great affinity and appreciation towards Indian Nationalism of 2014-17 Brand, and who for reasons known only to him, probably because he loves Indian Nationalism extremely to the extent that Communism/Marxism/Total true Socialism may appear to him as somewhat forget-worthy ghosts, has emailed to me a link, to a news Guardian report titled: "Vladimir Putin accuses Lenin of placing a 'time bomb' under Russia ". This report was dated 25th Jan. 2016. Both video version and the news version are available for the Putin's speech. It is a common characteristic in world history, that present dictators finding fault with past dictators (if my readers do not relish my adventurism of using the word 'dictators' for my reference to Putin, and Lenin, my Readers shall be free to amend and read as "leaders" instead of "dictators", and wherever possible trying to pass on their own guilt(s) and lapses to the past dictators. With due respect to the 1999-2017 ruler of the World's geographically the largest country, I am tempted to say that Mr. Putin Remarks accusing Lenin of placing time bomb under Russia, can also be placed under this 'pass-on-the-buck category.

First: links to the news reports: Guardian Video-- Click to go Guardian, and see the video.

Second: Guardian news, text, with link to video: Click to go to Guardian, and study the text.

MORNING STAR उदय तारा వేగు చుక్క

One heartening quality of the speech of Mr. Putin is, low-voice, whispering manner and style, unlike the SHOUTING HOARSE, DRAMATIC, SARCASTIC STYLES OF INDIAN POLITICIANS.

ybrao-a-donkey's observations which are not intended to be imposed on others

If as pointed out by Mr. Putin, in case Lenin had supported Federalism, with a right to Constituents secede , and Stalin had supported a 'Unitary State', then it only shows a democratic and liberal philosophical outlook of Lenin, as against a sterner dictatorial style of Stalin. Even if we assume that Lenin error-ed in his decision of un-restricting the freedoms of the Constituent States of the erstwhile Soviet Union, yet, that error , does not deserve a comment of placing a Nation under a 'time bomb'. Lenin might have made an indiscretion in drawing the boundaries of parts of U.S.S.R. at that time. Yet, he does not deserve the comment of being 'whimsical', and "delirious". The comment for the information of our readers:

"...Lenin’s government had whimsically drawn borders between parts of the USSR, placing Donbass under the Ukrainian jurisdiction in order to increase the percentage of proletariat in a move Putin called “delirious..."

yb-a-donkey's view:

There is no need for anybody to be 'delirious' or 'whimsical' to classify a particular place as 'proletariat'. Every sq.meter under the sky, not a forest, is proletariat. We can find proletariat everywhere. Even Buckingham Palace will have proletariat; the Queen's guards and servants can be classified as proletariat, in spite of their being paid sizable wages. Of course, the Queen's guards and servants may not accept it, because they may be too proud of their jobs, to such an extent, that they may feel superior to the guards of car factory or a ketchup factory or a soda ash factory. Such mis-perceptions are natural concomitants of Capitalist Systems, sets-up and structures.

MISPERCEPTIONS OF SELF-UPGRADED UPPER-PROLETARIAT

It is like this: A pet with a gold-belt and bound with a gold-chain in British Royal Palace, may feel superior to a dog wearing a silver-belt and bound with a silver-chain in a business-magnet's flat. The silver-bound dog, in turn, may feel superior to an unbound belt-less, chain-less, stray-street dog in London or Delhi.

SOFTWARE ENGINEERS WHO HAVE STUDIED M.TECH, AND MIDDLE AND SENIOR MANAGERS, WHETHER MBA, OR NOT, AND HOWSOEVER POMPOUS THEIR DESIGNATIONS MAY BE, ALSO FALL UNDER PROLETARIAT.

Though they may not admit, but it is still a fact that, the software engineers of India may also be classified as proletariat. Working full time for a wage/salary can be one ingredient, to get admitted to proletariat, inter alia , there are other basic requirements to belong to the genre of proletariat.

Every Nation, and every Province-state-prefectures forming parts of Nature, are also proletariats. There is no need to place 'red vermilion' on the face of each province-state-prefecture-district-county and call it 'proletariat'.

SOME LIP-SYMPATHY PONTIFICATIONS OF MR. PUTIN, WHICH LACK SINCERITY

"...My attitude to Communist ideas have never wavered. To this day I keep my party membership ticket at home. ..."

"...You know that I, like millions of Soviet citizens, over 20 million, was a member of the Communist Party of the USSR and not only was I a member of the party but I worked for almost 20 years for an organization called the Committee for State Security (KGB) ..."

"...I was not, as you know, a party member by necessity, I liked Communist and socialist ideas very much and I like them still”.

"...I was never just a 'functionary' when it came to party matters. 'The Moral Code of the Builder of Communism—a set of rules to be followed by all party members— ', resembles the Bible a lot. ..."

"...The code revolved around key concepts such as brotherhood, equality and happiness. ..."

"...These ideas were not implemented fully in the USSR. The Soviet Union began with repressions—something the Communists accused the tsar of...".

yb-a-donkey's view:

Mr. Putin is just canny, and worldly wise. If he does not reiterate and confirm that he still holds the Communist Party's membership Ticket, he may lose some votes, some crowds. Why take risk? Accept that "I support Communism/Marxism", and do the opposite! A true Communist-Marxist-Socialist Leader cannot rule a State for 16 long years. People are bound to get dissatisfied, and throw long-standing rulers. Reason: Communist/Marxist/truly Socialist Nations are yet to evolve solutions for hundreds of problems which a newly-Socialist State is likely to face.

This is a thousand page subject. To continue. सशेष. ఇంకా ఉంది.

862 (1st of 10 series) No need to celebrate or mourn Bolshevik Revolution in Russia,Oct. 1917. We need to analyse where we have gone wrong!

Once bitten, twice shy. Thus says the traditional English idiom. 100 years have passed since Bolshevik Revolution took place in Czarist Russia of 1917. The Bolshevik Revolution was violent, and in the upheaval, the last Tsar Emperor of Russia Nicholas II or Nikolai I, was killed by Bolshevik Troup led by Yakov Yurovsky. The advent of U.S.S.R. (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) took place, and Lenin became the undisputed Leader of the geographically the most expansive Nation of the World.

In 1991, when Gorbachev was at the helm of U.S.S.R., it broke into splinters. About the 74 years existence (1917 to 1991) of U.S.S.R., superficially as a Communist / Socialist Nation, there are divergent opinions. According to the Capitalist Press, Communism was a total failure. According to them, it is beyond redemption. They say that, we, should now, mourn, the Bolshevik Revolution and the Communism. Lenin might have implemented his brand of Communism, rather boorishly and with procacity. It may be true, that erstwhile USSR went through harrowing and gruesome tales of mass-killings, ferocious persecution, in the hands of succeeding cruel dictators. Their oppression might have, really been brutal.

Here is a link to one article in Spectator.co.u.k., titled: "The centenary of the Russian revolution should be mourned, not celebrated"., dated 10th Dec. 2016, by Max Hastings Click to go to http://www.spectator.co.uk/2016/12/the-centenary-of-the-russian-revolution-should-be-mourned-not-celebrated/. The article has collected all the negative sides of the Soviety History 1917-2017. In reality, Soviet Communism might not have been so sepulchral dark and despicable with ghastly shrieks and charnel smells. We shall have a sample from this article:

"...In the West, the gullibility of the Webbs, Bernard Shaw and the rest of the ‘true believers’ was fed by a desperation to suppose the Soviet example viable. ‘Looking around us at our own hells,’ wrote the historian Philip Toynbee, who became a communist at Cambridge, ‘we had to invent an earthly paradise somewhere else’. As late as 1945, the leftist publisher Victor Gollancz brought posterity’s contempt upon himself by declining to publish Animal Farm, George Orwell’s great satire on Bolshevism. ..."

"...President Putin has made unlawful all published mention of the unspeakable cruelties the Soviet regime inflicted on its own citizens — shooting an estimated 300,000 soldiers for alleged desertion or cowardice — in order to prevail. Antony Beevor’s books, and for that matter my own, are nowadays banned because they describe the Red Army’s 1945 campaign of rape and pillage in Germany. ..."

The defunct Soviet Union might not have been either a paradise or, - a hell as is made out now, from hindsight.

Capitalist writers forget the hells created by Imperialism, Colonialism, and Corporate Multi Nationalism. Of course, two wrongs may not make one 'right'. Like slow poison, industrial and agricultural exploitation too took its toll, making people undeclared slaves, before the pulpit of "CASH".

INDIAN WRITER SHRI MOHAN GURUSWAMY, in DECCAN CHRONICLE.COM.

Here is a link to the renowned Indian Writer's article, Shri Mohan Guruswamy, in DeccanChronicle.Com, dated 24th Dec. 2016, when the whole world was celebrating Christmas. Click to go to http://www.deccanchronicle.com/opinion/op-ed/241216/will-russian-spring-return.html. The title of the article is Will the Russian Spring return?

Every sentence written by Shri Guruswamy is worth discussing and analysing. To start with we shall take one paragraph:

The second time I stayed in a small Moscow apartment belonging to an old Russian widow, who for a small dollar price agreed to part with her state-allotted home for a few days. The flat, a few kilometres away from the Indian embassy at Ulitza Obhuka, was as tiny as they come. The bedroom had enough place for just a single bed. The living room was of the same size and had a sofa-cum-bed. The kitchen was tiny and bare. The bathroom was not much bigger than a train toilet. Food was not available for love or money but there was a lot of love available for food or money. In the small store that stood outside the Indian embassy the shelves were bare, as were the shelves in Moscow’s famous GUM store facing the Kremlin. I wanted to experience typical Russian life and got plenty of it. The ruble was officially on par with the US dollar, but on the street the dollar fetched a dozen rubles at least. And for a carton of Marlboro cigarettes (then $8 in Delhi’s duty-free) cabbies would drive you all over Moscow for as long as one wanted. Such was the plight of the other superpower.

yb-a-donkey's observations

With due respect to Shri Mohan Guruswamy, who says "Will the Russian Spring return?", we can also say "Will the American Spring return? Will the British / French / German / Italian / Portuguese / Spanish Springs return?

To continue. सशेष. ఇంకా ఉంది.