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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Poster Comment:
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.