What these stupid people don’t realize is, today it is us, tomorrow it will be them. There will always be an incident that the government will want to be supported their way. Your time will be here quicker than you think if you don’t wise up and think for yourself. This is just like Nazi Germany, and we know the Nazis were never really punished, just transplanted to continue their death and destruction worldwide
Bolshevik policy toward its detractors, and particularly toward articulate, intellectual criticism, hardened considerably. Suppression of newspapers, initially described as a temporary measure, became a permanent policy. Lenin considered the Constitutional Democrats (Kadets) the center of a conspiracy against Bolshevik rule. In 1919, he began mass arrests of professors and scientists who had been Kadets, and deported Kadets, Socialist Revolutionaries, Mensheviks, and Nationalists. The Bolshevik leadership sought rapidly to purge Russia of past leaders in order to build the future on a clean slate.
These harsh measures alienated a large number of the intellectuals who had supported the overthrow of the tsarist order. The suppression of democratic institutions evoked strong protests from academics and artists,who felt betrayed in their idealistic belief that revolution would bring a free society. Writers who had emigrated shortly after the revolution published stinging attacks on the new government from abroad. As a result, further exit permits for artists were generally denied.
The disenchantment of the majority of intellectuals did not surprise Lenin, who saw the old Russian intelligentsia as a kind of rival to his "party of a new type," which alone could bring revolutionary consciousness to the working class. In his view, artists generally served bourgeois interests, a notion that fueled the persecution of intellectuals throughout the Soviet period.
What these stupid people don’t realize is, today it is us, tomorrow it will be them. There will always be an incident that the government will want to be supported their way. Your time will be here quicker than you think if you don’t wise up and think for yourself. This is just like Nazi Germany, and we know the Nazis were never really punished, just transplanted to continue their death and destruction worldwide
And the first people killed by the dictators and commies were the intelligentsia that helped them gain power.
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The disenchantment of the majority of intellectuals did not surprise Lenin, who saw the old Russian intelligentsia as a kind of rival to his "party of a new type," which alone could bring revolutionary consciousness to the working class. In his view, artists generally served bourgeois interests, a notion that fueled the persecution of intellectuals throughout the Soviet period.