03-02-2017, 09:14 AM
Richard Coleman Wrote:David Guyatt Wrote:the Bolsheviks (which they also financed and backed as you know).
No, I don't know that. Why would the capitalist oligarchs finance the most bitter and resolute enemies of capitalism? Have you ever read any of their program documents, major speeches, books or articles? What did they gain from this financing? The US didn't even recognize the USSR until 1933. Although they did send troops along with 12 other western countries with the intention of destroying the Bolsheviks in 1918.
I suppose this lie will be joined by the current meme that Putin hacked or otherwise interfered with the recent election. (In case you're interested, he didn't. See
http://www.gregpalast.com/election-stolen-heres/ )
Worth noting, Richard, that the best-known historian & ideologist of United Russia, Putin's own party, has written extensively & in compelling detail of British & American support for the Bolsheviks. Starikov's work on, for example, the probings of an obscure Russian economist into the unnecessary & ludicrously expensive purchase of Swedish rail stock is illuminating.
"There are three sorts of conspiracy: by the people who complain, by the people who write, by the people who take action. There is nothing to fear from the first group, the two others are more dangerous; but the police have to be part of all three,"
Joseph Fouche
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