Bolshevik forces marching on the Red Square.
Owen Matthews, The Spectator: Why Putin’s Russia will be keeping quiet about 1917
The autocratic president reveres the USSR, but abhors the kind of popular uprising that created it.
How to celebrate the centenary of the Russian revolutions of 1917? Modern Russians are deeply divided over the legacy of that tumultuous year. Russia’s few remaining liberals remember that the overthrow of the tsar in February 1917 ushered in a flowering of the artistic avant-garde, a brief period of feminism, liberal values and democracy. Putin supporters, on the other hand, have been convinced by years of state television propaganda that popular revolutions are by definition dangerous and anarchic, and usually orchestrated by dark outside forces. Whether in Maidan Square in Kiev in 2013, Tahrir Square in Cairo in 2011 or Palace Square in Petrograd in 1917, the very idea of the people taking power into their hands is anathema to the Kremlin’s ideologues.
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WNU Editor: There are a number of mistakes in this post. One .... Putin is nostalgic about the power that the Soviet Union had when it was a Union (and in a way so am I) .... but the Soviet Union was a construct built on a philosophy that was just not sustainable due to cultural/social and a long list of other reasons. Putin knows that .... as well as almost everyone else in Russia. Two .... the history books are not being rewritten that paint Stalin as a glorified leader during the Second World War .... on the contrary .... what I have seen is the exact opposite. And three .... today’s Russia does not live in a cloud of nostalgia for a lost Soviet past. Every family has a story on the suffering and lost of loved ones because of the Bolshevik Revolution and its aftermath .... returning to the age of the Gulag is not what 99% of Russia wants.
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