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Title: American Pravda: The Bolshevik Revolution and Its Aftermath
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URL Source: http://www.unz.com/runz/american-pr ... -revolution-and-its-aftermath/
Published: Jul 23, 2018
Author: Ron Unz
Post Date: 2018-09-29 08:58:53 by BTP Holdings
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American Pravda: The Bolshevik Revolution and Its Aftermath

Ron Unz • July 23, 2018 • 6,900 Words

Leon Trotsky-Lev Davidovich Bronstein (1879-1940), 100 anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution, 1917-2017

Although I always had a great interest in history, I naively believed what I read in my textbooks, and therefore regarded American history as just too bland and boring to study.

By contrast, one land I found especially fascinating was China, the world’s most populous country and its oldest continuous civilization, with a tangled modern history of revolutionary upheaval, then suddenly reopened to the West during the Nixon Administration and under Deng’s economic reforms starting to reverse decades of Maoist economic failure.

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When the Bolsheviks executed the Royal Family, they found the rifle bullets would not penetrate since they had stitched all of their jewelry into their clothing. So they shot them all in the head.

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The Bolsheviks were brought from New York City to Moscow. First there was a revolution between the Reds and Whites. The Whites were the loyalists. The Reds won and the rest is history. ;)

"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke

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