The Soviet Union

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(The material discussed in this post can be found here: http://www.thebellforum.net/forums/view ... ?f=3&t=254)

A note on the problem of leftists studying the collapse of the USSR
No. 9/85.IX.2023

Everyone agrees that it is necessary to learn from the history of the birth, development and death of the USSR. However, there are obvious problems with understanding this experience. It can be stated that so far not a single group of leftists claiming to be communists has been able to present a deep analysis of the victories and failures of the Soviet period, and most importantly, to explore the reason for the inglorious death of the world's first proletarian state. Only we, the breakthroughists, made such an attempt and quite successfully. A significant part of the left generally refuses full-blooded research, contenting itself with vague generalizations and abstract declarations. What's the matter?

Although recently, at the instigation of individual figures, Menshevik ideas about the “prematureness of the revolution” have received a renaissance, most of the “orthodox” leftists recognize that the reasons for the death of the USSR lie in the area of ​​degradation of the CPSU. But, unfortunately, these guesses do not lead left-wing researchers to the right train of thought. There are several fundamental theoretical flaws in their methodology.

First , following the formal, descriptive method. The left believes that with the help of a diligent description of the political, economic and social processes in the USSR they will be able to reveal the essence of these processes from the point of view of their development, degradation and subsequent counter-revolution.

Without mastery of dialectical materialism, they do not understand what reason is. They are guided not by the Marxist, but by the dictionary definition of “cause” as a circumstance that serves as the basis for another phenomenon. Identification of the cause in the infinite variety of facts is a mandatory, but only the very initial stage of research. It must be understood that the relationship between cause and effect cannot be simply a direct development of the second from the first; cause must be considered in unity and struggle with its opposite; It is precisely the negation of this very opposite that is the moment of transformation of cause into effect. And the emergence of an effect from a cause is not a chronological phenomenon that occurs on its own, but the development of matter, albeit occurring in time. Some people think that everything past is the cause of everything present. And that any historical fragment can be correlated with any fragment of the more distant past and thus identify causes and consequences. In fact, the cause-and-effect chain is always strictly defined, strictly specific.

Consequently, in Marxism, the category “cause” is adopted to designate not just a historical fact that precedes an event, but a factor that has reached the necessary degree of maturity in unity and struggle with its opposite, in its negation. In other words, cause is the rate of development of opposing factors, drawn by historical circumstances into unity and struggle, into the process of negation of negation . Negation itself (i.e. the moment of the leap) is unthinkable without the accumulation of quantitative changes leading to a qualitative leap. The consequence, therefore, is a new stable state that arose as a result of the development or degradation of the previous state.

Thus, rummaging through individual facts and facts of Soviet history, trying to arbitrarily arrange them into some kind of logical chain is not yet a search for the reason for the restoration of capitalism.

Secondly , left-wing researchers focus all their attention on the economic processes of the Union, believing that it was they who determined the policy of the CPSU, guided by the principle “the base is primary, the superstructure is secondary.” They forget Lenin's words:

“Politics cannot but take precedence over economics. To argue otherwise means to forget the ABCs of Marxism” (“Once again about trade unions, about the current moment and about the mistakes of Comrades Trotsky and Bukharin”).

We should also remember Engels’s quote from a letter to Schmidt:

“Why then are we fighting for the political dictatorship of the proletariat if political power is economically powerless? Violence (that is, state power) is also an economic force!”

The problem, as usual, is the vulgar understanding of the theory of Marxism.

To begin with, we must distinguish basis and dominant relations of production. The basis is always multi-structured; it contains remnants of old production relations: patriarchal-family, small-peasant, communal production and even slavery. For example, in the Russian Federation, according to inaccurate data, there are about a million slaves, i.e. people illegally deprived of their freedom and forced to work under fear. There were also many structures in the Soviet Union: the communist structure (public sector), collective-farm (with varying degrees of generalization of the means of production: from communes, where the entire economy was common, to TOZs, where only the land was common), collective-craft, private ownership ( existing legally during the NEP period and later blossoming in the form of the so-called “shadow sector”). Plus everyone, even the tallest ones,

Further, contrary to popular opinion, not the entire spiritual life of society directly grows from the base , but only the superstructure corresponding to the prevailing relations of production - the state and its legal system, ideology, etc. The remaining elements of social consciousness are only mediated by the basis, but can be either preserved from past eras or new, revolutionary.

In an exploitative formation, i.e. in the synthesis of the basis and the corresponding superstructure, the main and main preserving element is precisely the superstructure, and not the entire social consciousness, which contains both reactionary and progressive aspects. The prevailing relations of production are gradually becoming overripe and are themselves ready to move into a new state, to give way to new relations. The peculiarity of capitalism as the last exploitative formation, its difference from feudalism and slavery, is that more progressive and complex relations of production (communism) do not spontaneously developin its depths. Therefore, the socialist revolution cannot rely on any ready-made economic ties; it relies only on people - on the proletariat, who have realized the need for a revolutionary breakdown of the “old world”.

Under communism, the superstructure presupposes the free and dynamic development of the base as an organic side of social production, and the base provides scope for the development of the superstructure. In this sense, the formation “communism” is not the opposite of the formation “capitalism,” but of all class formations together. This is why the arguments of various leftist theorists about the contradictions of socialist production with social relations are deeply erroneous. It is correct to talk about the struggle between the old exploitative ways of life and the new communist way of life.

Since in an exploitative society socio-economic processes for the most part occur spontaneously, production anarchy reigns, then in the base-superstructure pair the leading role remains with the base, and the superstructure is, as it were, a reflection of the demands of the dominant relations of the base. In a communist society, it is the superstructure, in the form of the politics of the party and the state, that becomes the leader, and the base the slave. This is a very important point that the left does not understand. That is why Lenin argued that it was enough for the working class in alliance with the peasantry to take power and on the basis of the dictatorship of the proletariat the basis of communism could be rebuilt. That is why the statements of certain well-known figures in left-wing circles that the USSR allegedly died because Russia was too economically backward are anti-Marxist. For them, the great Stalinist industrialization is not the construction of communism, but just a bourgeois modernization of the economy, the elimination of the industrial backlog. They don’t want to see that under Stalin they not only built many plants and factories, creating entire industries from scratch, but built precisely new communist relations.

So, since under communism the dominant production relations of the base are built consciously with the help of the policies of the Marxist party, the rate of withering away of bourgeois remnants in the economy and the psyche of people, the transition of society from the lower (immature) phase of communism to the higher (mature) phase is determined mainly by the quality of Marxist personnel and the party leadership .

After the death of Stalin, there was not a single savvy Marxist capable of leading the party, Khrushchev’s Trotskyist coup took place and the CPSU chose the opposite path from communism. The ideological degeneration of the party leadership is the reason for the restoration of capitalism in the USSR. First, the Khrushchevites replaced the program for the development of communism with economism, the desire to “catch up and gobble up” the United States and discredited Marxism with their demagoguery about the “cult of personality,” plowing up the public consciousness, and then the Gorbachevites finished off communism with market reforms and rabid anti-Stalinist and anti-communist propaganda. And all this happened against the backdrop of the consistent ideological and theoretical degradation of the Soviet people.

You need to understand that in the Bolshevik Party, from the very moment of its founding until the seizure of power, there was a fierce class struggle in ideological and organizational forms. In the 30s, this struggle intensified to the limit in connection with the development of ways and means for the further development of the country and from an ideological and organizational one it turned into a terrorist, sabotage and conspiratorial form, when the Trotskyists killed Bolshevik leaders and intellectuals who sympathized with them (the poisoning of M. Gorky), They staged explosions in mines, derailed trains, sabotaged local party decisions, and planned a military putsch. The Khrushchev coup is one of the episodes of the class struggle within the party after the death of Stalin. And the removal of Khrushchev in 1965 is also an act of class struggle.

The question may arise: who fought whom? Communists with opportunists. Communists objectively fought in accordance with the requirements of building communism, and opportunists (regardless of personal motives) fought for the interests of the world bourgeoisie, including also the petty-bourgeois part of the working people, who thought that the weakening of communism promised them many benefits.

They may ask: why didn’t I write that communists are fighting for the interests of the proletariat? Because the interests of the proletariat cannot be identified with the tasks of building communism. There is no such interest in “building communism.” What is interest? This is an unlimited animal instinct on a “higher” socio-psychological plane. What is the interest of the proletarian? It is profitable to sell your labor. Yes, under socialism (which is the lowest phase of communism) there is no labor market, so the Soviet worker does not sell his labor power to the socialist state, but proletarian psychology does not disappear anywhere. By the way, after the revolution, the Bolsheviks were faced with the problem of a strong drop in labor productivity: the workers were simply lazy, did not work well, or even skipped work. Because the motivating stick of fear of being fired was no longer hanging over their heads. And at first there were not so many conscientious workers who understood that they were now working not for their uncle, but for the benefit of the whole society. Therefore, the Bolsheviks had to compromise with the proletarian (essentially merchant) consciousness of the masses: introduce cost accounting in enterprises, hitting irresponsible managers, forcing them to find ways to increase labor productivity, use resources economically, and stimulate labor with cash bonuses. And also introduce strict labor discipline, up to an article for willfully leaving the workplace. Therefore, the Bolsheviks had to compromise with the proletarian (essentially merchant) consciousness of the masses: introduce cost accounting in enterprises, hitting irresponsible managers, forcing them to find ways to increase labor productivity, use resources economically, and stimulate labor with cash bonuses. And also introduce strict labor discipline, up to an article for willfully leaving the workplace. Therefore, the Bolsheviks had to compromise with the proletarian (essentially merchant) consciousness of the masses: introduce cost accounting in enterprises, hitting irresponsible managers, forcing them to find ways to increase labor productivity, use resources economically, and stimulate labor with cash bonuses. And also introduce strict labor discipline, up to an article for willfully leaving the workplace.

That is why communists fight, contrary to the belief of the left, precisely for communism, and not for the interests of the proletarian masses or even the working class. Although the first does not exclude the use of the second.

Let me summarize. It is necessary to study the history of the USSR and the cause of its death from the standpoint of dialectical materialism (diamatics). Under communism, the superstructure is the leader, and the base, within certain limits, is the slave; all historical processes should be viewed primarily through the prism of party decisions. It was the decisions of the leadership, especially the leaders, that determined the path of the USSR either towards communism, or (after the death of the last leader, Stalin) towards the restoration of capitalism. The degradation and subsequent degeneration of the CPSU is due to the fact that its ranks were littered with opportunists, careerists, opportunists and simply ignorant people.

In the brochure “ Reasons for the restoration of capitalism in the USSR ” comrade. Redin writes:

“After Stalin’s death, the CPSU forgot what opportunism is, they forgot the objective law of the revolutionary struggle about the irreconcilability of ideologies. Factionalism was thus considered to be some insignificant discrepancy in the understanding of Marxism, an originality of views.

And the CPSU forgot about opportunism solely because the CPSU itself went with its ears into the swamp of this very opportunism.

The propaganda apparatus of the CPSU (b) and the quality of personnel were always not up to par. Lenin wrote that “there is no real ‘Soviet, socialist’ cultural apparatus, or rather, the elements of such an apparatus are ridiculously few, and we must remember that to create it... we must spend many, many, many years.”

Lenin pointed out that at least half of the communists do not know how to fight, and many simply interfere with the struggle for communism.

Stalin said that the party activists do not know the theory of Marxism, they are trying to solve the problems facing the country in a directive manner, to take them on the run and with agility.”

Without mastery of the theory of building communism, the CPSU objectively lost the letter “K”, turning into a large bureaucratic apparatus that held on as if spontaneously, out of habit, due to the colossal reserve of the Stalin era. But why did this happen, why in the end there were no Marxists in the multimillion-dollar party? The reason for this is the organizational principle of the party, democratic centralism, when opportunists, voting for each other and taking advantage of the ignorance of the party masses, subjugate all commanding heights. Stalin did not have time to build an effectively working system for training party personnel, and those developments that were there were swept away by Khrushchev, flooding the party with illiterate personnel, including rehabilitated Trotskyists.

All this is described in detail in the brochure by Comrade. Redin, which, in turn, is based on the developments of V. Podguzov. If the left were diligent enough in studying Marxism, mastered dialectical materialism (diamatics), then they would, when studying the history of the USSR, come to similar conclusions. But alas, for now they prefer to just TALKabout diamatics on the next stream, and in historical questions they are guided by objectivism and positivism (including determining the scientific nature of the work by designing the text and the presence of links to “authoritative sources”). Diamatics for them is nothing more than a set of dead schemes and dogmas, such as the fact that “matter is primary”, but they do not understand what to do with this primacy. In addition, the left is under the strong influence of bourgeois ideology and willingly repeats liberal theses about “Soviet authoritarianism” and other nonsense, not understanding how deeply such views contradict Marxism.

Separately, we can only note the concepts of Popov and Balaev, who found the courage to consistently and clearly present their views on the causes of the death of the CPSU and the USSR. However, both of them suffer from serious shortcomings, which is why they cannot be considered wealthy. The fallacy of their conclusions smoothly flows into the fallacy of the lessons that need to be learned from the degradation of the CPSU, therefore they prefer to build their organizations on the principles of democracy, and by building communism they understand something that has nothing to do with the essence of communism.

R. Ogienko
09/25/2023

https://prorivists.org/85_lefts/

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Once again about Yakovlev and the destruction of the USSR
October 1, 9:27



Section "They write to us."

Once again about Yakovlev and the destruction of the USSR

Good afternoon, Colonel.

Recently you had an article on your blog “How a class is born, and why the nomenclature of the USSR was not a class” ( https://colonelcassad.livejournal.com/8652009.html ).

I won’t argue about its main content, although I don’t quite agree with it.

The eye was caught by this phrase:
“Speculation is expanding, capitalist labor relations are spreading - the “new” class is gaining strength. This is what happened in the USSR, what served as the collapse of the USSR. And not an insidious conspiracy of the nomenklatura.”

Much has been written about the reasons for the collapse of the USSR, and even more strange ideas are circulated by word of mouth.
Many see the reasons for the collapse in the economic situation. And from different sides: some because of the ineffective economic system that developed in the late USSR, where private initiative spread rot, and some, on the contrary, because they did not fight profiteering well (like the author of this article).
And some in general see the reasons for the collapse of the USSR in the Chernobyl disaster and in the “failures” in Afghanistan.
All these explanations do not explain anything, since both in world history and in the history of the USSR specifically, there were more difficult periods when the country did not collapse.

On the other hand, betrayal and specific sabotage on the part of the party nomenclature (or a significant part of it) is considered a marginal, almost conspiracy theory.
And one could argue a lot about this, if not for one fact: there is a clear and specific confession, recorded and published with one’s own hand.

Namely, Alexander Yakovlev, in the introductory article to the publication of the “Black Book of Communism” in Russian, Yakovlev said: “

After the 20th Congress, in a very narrow circle of our closest friends and like-minded people, we often discussed the problems of democratization of the country and society. We chose a propaganda method as simple as a sledgehammer "ideas" of the late Lenin. <...> A group of true, and not imaginary, reformers developed (orally, of course) the following plan: with the authority of Lenin to strike at Stalin, at Stalinism. And then, if successful, Plekhanov and Social Democracy to strike at Lenin, liberalism and “moral socialism” - according to revolutionism in general. <...>

The Soviet totalitarian regime could only be destroyed through glasnost and totalitarian party discipline, while hiding behind the interests of improving socialism. <...> Looking back, I can proudly say that the cunning, but very simple tactics - the mechanisms of totalitarianism against the system of totalitarianism - worked."

It directly says that he and his "closest friends and like-minded people" purposefully worked to destroy the "regime". And by "regime" we always mean the state, as a management apparatus.

Yakovlev, since those very 60s, has always worked in the field of agitation and propaganda.
But an interesting coincidence.
Yes, Yakovlev became the head of the propaganda department of the CPSU Central Committee in July 1985.
But here are the following dates:

* Candidate member of the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee - January 28
suspiciously coincides with a change in course from “acceleration” to the so-called “democratization and openness.”

As a conclusion, after such confessions of this functionary, we can close the question of _why_ the USSR collapsed. You can discuss _how_ it was destroyed.

(c) mentalaggressor

https://colonelcassad.livejournal.com/8673012.html

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"Summer with Hitler"
October 3, 15:00



"Summer with Hitler"

The discussion in Russian society on the topic of where the line lies between other political views and betrayal of one’s own people has intensified against the backdrop of the Northern Military District. And it’s not just about the conventional Isinbayeva and Pugacheva. The actions of figures of the past sometimes raise no less questions.
The exhibition “Confrontation and Reconciliation,” dedicated to the 150th anniversary of the writer Ivan Shmelev, opens at the House of Russian Abroad.
Shmelev, the author of such works as “The Sun of the Dead” and “The Summer of the Lord,” is considered one of the most significant writers of the Russian diaspora.

Maxim Gorky and Alexander Kuprin spoke warmly about him as a writer. Shmelev is considered perhaps the last author who managed to convey the spirit of a departing, patriarchal Russia. The writer's life was overshadowed by tragedies. In 1920, his son Sergei, an officer of the White Army, was shot by the Bolsheviks, and Ivan Sergeevich carried this pain through the rest of his life.

He left with permission, promised not to speak out against Soviet power.
But this is where some rather interesting moments begin. Shmelev, while in Soviet Russia, corresponds with Lunacharsky, Kalinin and other Soviet figures, turns to them with various requests and, interestingly, finds understanding and help from them.
The writer was not sent to the “Philosophical Steamship” - no ultimatums were given to him; Shmelev received permission to leave officially, promising at the same time not to act against the Soviet Republic in any way.

In 1927, director Yakov Protazanov staged the film “The Man from the Restaurant” in the USSR based on the pre-revolutionary story by Shmelev. And although the author, who is in exile, remained dissatisfied with this fact, something else is indicative here - at least in the late 1920s, the writer was not considered by the Bolsheviks as a sworn enemy. And this despite the fact that Shmelev’s “Sun of the Dead” became, so to speak, a bestseller of anti-Soviet agitprop. In the early 1930s, the author was even nominated twice for the Nobel Prize in Literature.


The curator of the exhibition dedicated to the 150th anniversary of the writer, Tatyana Marchenko, in an interview with Rossiyskaya Gazeta stated: “Reconciliation occurs in our minds, a hundred years later. Reconciliation is modern Russia, which accepts its spiritual and cultural heritage, its history. Accepts that emigration that was not against Russia, but was for a different path of its development. She lost then, but now we see that we cannot move on without this legacy.”

But then the controversial issues begin. Ms. Marchenko reports some “personal correspondence” on which “it is unacceptable to base accusations.” What are we talking about? Why do you have to justify Shmelev like this?

During the years of Hitler's occupation of France, the writer collaborated with the pro-Nazi publication Parisian Messenger. By the way, many people in the emigration did not forgive Shmelev for this act. But this, oddly enough, is not so bad. But that same “personal correspondence” is a much more serious thing.

We are talking about Shmelev’s letters addressed to Olga Bredius-Subbotina, a writer and artist who is called his last love.

In a letter dated June 30, 1941, Shmelev speaks about the beginning of the Great Patriotic War: “I am so illuminated by the event of June 22, the great feat of the Knight who raised his sword against the Devil. I firmly believe that strong ties of brotherhood will now bind both great nations. Great suffering purifies and uplifts. Lord, how my heart beats with unspeakable joy... Yours, Iv. Shmelev."

So, the writer experiences unspeakable delight at the Nazi attack on the USSR and goes so far as to declare Hitler a “knight.” Was it only in correspondence that Shmelev said something like that? No, representatives of the Russian emigration testify that Shmelev did not hide his sympathy for Hitler’s aggression in conversations. Moreover, he was not the only one who saw in what was happening a chance for his own revenge.

“The devil’s front has been broken, near Vyazma, in front of Moscow, the armies are surrounded... the butchering is underway.”
But in a letter dated October 9, 1941, Shmelev reveals himself even more clearly: “... I knew that there would be something important today, I left the radio open... After all, yesterday was my Serezhechka’s day, Rev. Sergius of Radonezh, patron saint of Russia. I was waiting. I was waiting for an echo, - I was waiting for the gospel - from “Kulikovo Field”! ... I was not deceived by my heart, the Reverend responded... I heard fanfares, a drum - at 2:30 - a special communiqué: the devil’s front has been broken, near Vyazma, in front of Moscow, the armies are surrounded... the butchering is underway, Reverend enters his patrimony. God is created not in our ways, but in His ways, incomprehensible to us... Yours Iv. Shmelev."

The front breakthrough, which turned into the “Vyazemsky Cauldron,” became the hardest defeat for the Red Army in the fall of 1941. It was at this moment that the fate of Moscow was in jeopardy. But those who were surrounded fought fiercely, with their tenacity buying time for those who had to defend the capital. Five Soviet armies fell into the Vyazemsky cauldron, about 500 thousand prisoners were captured, and up to a million Soviet soldiers and officers died.

Mr. Shmelev calls the death of Red Army soldiers “butchering.” And Orthodoxy, blagovest, Sergius of Radonezh are woven in here.

And all this is not a momentary emotional outburst - Shmelev also took part in a thanksgiving prayer on the occasion of the Nazi occupation of Crimea. The writer’s defenders say that he did not do it personally, but only “signed a prayerful thanksgiving.” What does it change? Absolutely nothing.

“The Germans save people from hunger by sending them to Germany to work.”
In 1942, Shmelev, in correspondence with Bredius-Subbotina, outdid himself by justifying the deportation of compatriots to work in Germany: “The Germans save people from hunger by sending them to Germany to work. You need to know everything. Olya, know: the heroes are those who are going there now, helping the liberators! Holy women write to me. Their husbands are coming and they bless them. These are Russian women, heroines..."

What kind of repentance is there - Shmelev loved the Nazis and the Fuhrer until 1945. The assessment given to him was quite unequivocal: the writer had turned into an outcast. He was not forgiven for his collaboration with the Nazi publication—in France, most emigrants and the French themselves turned their backs on him, and the American authorities refused him a visa to the United States. He ended his life in the Intercession Convent for women, dying in 1950 from a heart attack.

Shmelev’s defenders say that his books began to be published in the USSR already in 1957. But publishing books and justifying the author’s views are not the same thing.

https://aif.ru/culture/person/leto_s_gi ... _emigracii - zinc

I wrote about the revelations of this character not so long ago in relation to the opening of a memorial plaque to Shmelev in Crimea.
“Reconciliation” with such characters repeats word for word the concept of reconciliation with Bandera in Ukraine.

https://colonelcassad.livejournal.com/8678033.html

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[/b]How mental patients were saved in Samara during the famine of 1922[/b]
October 7, 12:38



Save the mentally ill.

The Samara psychiatric hospital was located 8 miles from the city, near the village of Tomashev Kolok (now within the city limits). In December 1921, with the onset of frost, local peasants tore off the locks from the hospital sheds, stole all the firewood supplies, and there was nothing to heat the hospital with. For the New Year, there are only 3 days left of firewood supplies. There were 400 patients in the hospital.



The medical staff moved their own supplies of firewood there and everyone began to live in the hospital - surviving together.
The regional health department stepped up to the plate and allocated money for the purchase of fuel. However, local peasants, seeing such a thing and the apocalypse happening around, set a price tag: 6 pounds of meat, 1.5 pounds of millet and 50,000 rubles per cubic meter of firewood.
The price is absolutely unaffordable for a hospital where rations were already severely cut.

The peasants of the Semeykino dachas, which are 18 miles from the hospital, agreed to sell the firewood for a reasonable price. But the hospital did not have its own transport. We again turned to the gubernia health department with a request to help with transport.
The provincial health department, having absolutely no funds at its disposal, proposed a simple solution: to cut down the hospital park for firewood.
The mental hospital medical staff flatly refused, but then the fuel completely ran out. In order not to waste time, being on the verge of cold death, we turned to Epidcheck.

Epidcheka also immediately proposed cutting down the park. The doctors again flatly refused, arguing that the park is therapy for the mentally ill, the same as hospital equipment. Epidemiology went into detail, but there was no money, funds or free horses at hand, and the decision had to be made right here and now - otherwise tomorrow they would start dying in a mental hospital from hypothermia.
"P. 12.
HEARD: The petition of a psychiatric hospital to release funds for the purchase of 3 horses to strengthen transport.
DECIDED: To release three horses to a psychiatric hospital. To take away the horses from the district health doctors. To allocate funds to the health doctors for the purchase of tram tickets."

They began to transport firewood from the Semeykino dachas.
But there is also hunger there - the locals began to demand payment in food. Sharing cut rations means starving ourselves. And in January-February there is a typhus hurricane, hundreds of corpses are buried in mass graves every day. Epidchek and Gubzdrav have no time for a mental hospital.



But doctors still go to Epidchek, to its chairman Antonov-Ovseyenko.
Antonov-Ovseenko, not as the Pre-Provincial Executive Committee, but as the chairman of the Epidchek, appeals to our Russian Red Cross Society and the Swedish Red Cross with a request to provide food to children's hospitals in Samara as quickly as possible.
Abroad, they initially intended to help only children - the Swedes are suspending the opening of kitchens in the Krasnoyarsk volost and throwing funds at children's hospitals. ROKK breaks out of railway traffic jams with its train.
On February 3, 1922, the ROKK and the Swedish Red Cross covered the food supply of all children's hospitals in the city of Samara with their funds. Soldiers from the Communist Epidemiological Squad have already been deployed to the hospitals, sealing them and preventing the staff from stealing products already allocated by the gubernia health department. These products are confiscated from city hospitals, which are now transferred to the Red Cross, and are sent to feed patients and staff of a psychiatric hospital.

Survived.

Photos from the site "Historical Samara". The data is from the funds of the Samara EpiCheck.

(c) Grigory Tsidenkov

https://colonelcassad.livejournal.com/8687645.html

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Pravda writes only the truth
October 14, 21:44



Pravda writes only the truth

In light of the escalation of the armed conflict in the Middle East, our editors have pulled up issues from previous years from the archives. We wanted to show young readers of Pravda on social networks how similar the events of the past are to those happening now. ( https://t.me/pravdaphotoandvideo/1394 ) For publication, we chose an article that was published exactly 40 years ago in issue 283 (23809) on October 10, 1983 under the title “The occupiers are gaining a foothold. To the events in Lebanon" ( https://t.me/pravda_gazeta/4175 ).

The material tells about the events of Operation Peace to Galilee, as it is called in Israel, or the First Lebanon War that took place in those days. Then Israel occupied Lebanese territory with the aim of destroying the bases of the Palestine Liberation Organization. In addition, the text contains an information message about a radio speech by US President Ronald Reagan, who tried to justify the presence of American troops in Lebanon, which were essentially occupation forces. The note also assessed Reagan’s “Middle East Initiative,” which in fact became a springboard for interference in the internal affairs of not only Lebanon, but also other Middle Eastern states in order to establish Washington’s dominance in the region.

Our publication received wide distribution on the Internet. In particular, the famous military observer Boris Rozhin (Colonelcassad) posted it on his channel in the Telegram messenger ( https://t.me/boris_rozhin ). About 300 thousand subscribers read the material here alone.

But the most valuable thing was the reaction of readers to a note from the past, which turned out to be relevant today:

“The party and the newspaper Pravda didn’t lie to us, but we didn’t believe it, we thought they were exaggerating... And that’s how it turned out...,” writes the user with the nickname Mvvbd.

“In the attic of my grandmother’s house, I found Soviet newspapers from the 50s and 60s. I read it and compared it with what is happening now. It turned out to be the truth,” says a reader with the nickname Mr.X.

“Who would have thought that Pravda wrote the truth…” Evgenia is amazed.

“The longer I live, the more I am surprised: Soviet propaganda did not lie to us about the bestial nature of the imperialists, but we giggled at the cliches,” admits Lyudmila.

“Everything that Soviet propaganda “lied” to us about turned out to be true,” states Kozma Cthulhu.

“Everything that the Pravda newspaper wrote turned out to be true,” Vera Kolesnikova echoes him.

“It turns out that Pravda was telling the truth,” a user with the nickname Goest makes the discovery.

This became the leitmotif of a huge number of messages left by users. We greet such sincere confessions with twofold feelings. On the one hand, it’s joyful because finally, decades later, people have learned the true price of the streams of liberal anti-Soviet lies.

On the other hand, it hurts because understanding came so slowly and came at such a high price. Not everyone survived the collapse of the USSR, the era of “shock therapy”; the present time is also difficult for many with its real “grins of capitalism”, which Soviet citizens previously learned about from articles in Pravda, the Vremya and International Panorama programs.

Everything that Soviet propaganda “lied” turned out to be true: inflation, unemployment, social insecurity, and the hegemony of imperialism with its double standards and constant wars. Everything that the country created by the communists tried to protect its citizens from, free from class struggle, wishing its citizens peace and prosperity and telling them the truth, which not everyone wanted to hear.

It took more than three decades to understand and learn the truisms long known to communists. We hope that the class approach that underlies all of Pravda’s activities will be adopted much more quickly.

This science is very expensive: to understand what is actually true and what is a lie. Take care, comrades, this knowledge, do not lose it!

Ivan Egorov

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I remember that in Soviet times, anti-Soviet propaganda in every possible way promoted the anti-Soviet joke “There is no Izvestia in Pravda, and there is no truth in Izvestia.”
As is now not difficult to notice, “everything that Soviet propaganda lied about turned out to be true,” and “the voices of truth from the Voice of America and other similar garbage dumps turned out to be a total lie of Orwellian proportions, which is confirmed on a daily basis with the incredible depths of the bottom being broken through.

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Birthday of the "Lenin cook"
October 15, 17:58



Birthday of the “Lenin cook”

Today, October 14, is the birthday of one very famous person. In our country, almost everyone knows this man and on occasion, in various discussions and disputes, he is often remembered. Today is the Cook's birthday. You, of course, ask - what other Cook has this? Yes, absolutely “Any Cook who knows how to manage the State”!!!

105 years ago, on October 14, 1917 (new style), V.I. Lenin finished work on the article “Will the Bolsheviks retain state power?” It was in it that he wrote:

“We are not utopians. We know that any unskilled worker and any cook are not capable of immediately taking over the government of the state. On this we agree with the cadets, and with Breshkovskaya, and with Tsereteli. But we differ from these citizens in that we demand an immediate break with the prejudice that only the rich or officials taken from rich families are able to govern the state, carry out the everyday, daily work of government. We demand that training in public administration be conducted by class-conscious workers and soldiers and that it begin immediately, that is, that all working people, all the poor, immediately begin to be involved in this training.”

The first few sentences indicate that Lenin not only did not say that “any cook can rule the state.” Moreover, he argued the exact opposite of this: “any laborer and any cook are not capable of immediately taking over the management of the state.” Vladimir Ilyich only insisted that conscientious workers should be trained in the business of public administration, so that this would not be the privilege of only the notorious “elite.” When they learn, then yes, they will be able to manage. As a matter of fact, the years of Soviet power clearly proved this thesis.

But who cares about that now? Until now, millions of people, including those who studied in the USSR, repeat and repeat this phrase with the tenacity of woodpeckers. “Lenin said that every cook can rule the state.” By the way, for some reason it seems to them that they are insulting the “cooks”. In fact, they spit on the history of their own family, because the overwhelming majority of the inhabitants of modern Russia have ancestors - peasants and peasant women. In most cases, illiterate. Yes, yes, those same “cooks”, and not at all countesses and princesses or at least merchants of the third guild.

However, there is also an interesting psychological phenomenon of mass consciousness. In various discussions, many Internet users like to contrast themselves with “grandmothers who only watch TV.” Like, we know more, we are smarter, we have the Internet! However, where this belief came from is a great mystery. The Internet really helps. If you doubt any facts, figures or quotes, like about the same cook, you can immediately check everything yourself. Without going to the library, without digging through encyclopedias, as happened before.

However, how many take advantage of this opportunity? After all, often there is not even such a need! That’s why there are a lot of fakes circulating on the Internet, which people immediately believe because they want to believe. And therefore, heated discussions on social networks on social and political topics often resemble conversations in the ward of a madhouse.

So who are the “cooks” here?

(c) A. Stepanov

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The number of the Red Army at the beginning of the civil war
October 15, 19:15



Real combat strength of the Red Army, Red Guards and Red partisans by May 28, 1918.

This is about the question of the balance of forces at the time of the speech of the Czechoslovak corps.
It is often forgotten that the Red Army was originally formed on a voluntary basis. At the same time, the process of demobilization of the old army was going on. Many red detachments were created spontaneously. Sometimes this is deliberately forgotten and they operate with cosmic numbers.

By the time the Czechoslovaks spoke out, the situation was as follows:

- the payroll strength of the Red Army on May 20, 1918 (with sick, wounded, non-combatants, etc.) - 263,000 people;
- in the semi-spontaneous Red Guard detachments, scattered throughout the country and often without communication with each other - 37,950 people (this includes the first internationalists);
- in the red partisan detachments there are approximately (well, very approximately) 54,000 people. The figure is given for July 1918 and in May it was, for obvious reasons, much different and downward;
- 25,000 people in food detachments and in prototypes of CHON.

Total: 380,730 people. The figure is given without taking into account the veil detachments on the demarcation line with the Germans.

A lot of? Even if we imagine them all as combat androids (forgetting about non-combatants, reserves, sick, wounded, in training, etc., etc.), then having spread all this number across the map, we get not very large groups on all fronts (in Full growth is taking place near Orenburg, in the South, in the North, Ukraine, and the Far East).

What did this figure represent in real life:

- we are taking away the food detachments and CHON - their business is in the rear;
- out of 355,000 fighters, 185,386 people are armed;
- out of 185,386 people are trained or have combat experience - 49,068 people;
- out of the same 185,386 people ready to go to the front (organized, reliable, not decayed, not sick or wounded, armed, trained, staffed with command staff, supplied with food and fodder, dressed and wearing shoes) - 17,039 fighters.

N.I. Shatagin. Organization and construction of the Soviet army in 1918-1920. Ed. Ministry of Defense of the USSR, M., 1954, p. 63. Provides a link to TsGAKA (RGVA), f.3, op.6, d.15, l.137-139, f.4, op.2, d.34, l.141,143.

(c) Grigory Tsidenkov

The mobilization measures that followed during the civil war surpassed the parallel efforts of the White Guards and made it possible to gain a decisive advantage in numbers by the middle and end of the war, although this was not the only factor that determined the victory of the Red Army.

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Remark about Soviet education
No. 10/86.X.2023

Anti-Soviet activists often use the mass popularity of TV shows with Kashpirovsky and Chumak as “proof” of the low quality of Soviet education. Not to mention the fact that the starting conditions of Soviet education in the 20s. were significantly worse than in the industrialized USA (where universal education and public schools were introduced during Marx’s lifetime), England, France, Germany (Bismarck’s classic about the Austro-Prussian war: “the war was won by a German schoolteacher”), and not to mention that in capitalist countries the degree of general madness in religiosity, mysticism and blind faith has always been orders of magnitude higher than even in the perestroika years of the dying USSR.

In the USSR, the quality of official television channels has always been at its best. Never during the 40-year existence of Soviet television, before the Chumaks and Kashpirovskys, had a scientific fake been shown on Soviet television. The skill of recognizing a scientific fake, distrust and double-checking a verified source of information do not depend on the level of mass consciousness . Mass secondary education is not designed for such an operation. this is a purely social skill . In the USSR, there was no environment in which this skill could be developed - the entire press was subject to scientific censorship, for the publication of materials ufologists were reprimanded to the utmost, even science fiction magazines , if some newspaper or magazine published a fake, then there was a major trial with punishment the culprits. Under such conditions, the population could not be critical of television programs with Chumak and Kashpirovsky, believing that they had already passed scientific censorship .

Only after a wave of fakes and all sorts of unhealthy fantasies poured out from TV channels and newspapers for several years did the population develop the skill of recognizing, verifying and countering this information. Just the fact that this wave of faith in sorcerers, psychics and others very quickly faded away, was limited to a fairly narrow layer of people and has no chance of development , says that this is not due to a lack of education, but due to a lack of skill to verify all sources in a row, and not just unverified ones. Soviet education was still sufficient to think rationally , and gave quite enough competence to recognize a fake.

If we draw an analogy, then we can all step over a gap half a meter wide. But if we close this abyss with branches and imitate a normal road, then we will fall into this abyss, since a person who does not have the specific skills of a scout and does not expect dirty tricks simply does not have the skill to check where you place your foot. A long jump athlete can also fall into such a trap; this does not depend on the ability to jump; in order to jump, you need to know where to jump. This is the kind of scoundrel that the Soviet people faced during perestroika - they became victims of a vile provocation. According to your idiotic logic, it is the victim who is to blame for the fact that the provocation was a success, and not the scoundrels who staged it? This is some kind of inverted logic of an anti-communist idiot.

I. Bortnik
10/21/2023.

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Vigilante prodrazvestrika
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October 23, 21:13



How the Bolshevik Ivan Kuritsyn solved the problems of surplus appropriation. A very educational story.

Everyday life of the food appropriation system

From the daily work of the Petrograd food detachment in the Stavropol district of the Samara province in the spring and autumn of 1919.

The detachment worked in the district immediately after the suppression of the so-called “Chapan uprising”, organized in the rear of the Red Army during Kolchak’s offensive. Petrograd residents were transferred from Simbirsk province.

Main tasks:

1. Accounting for grain collected in 1918

2. Control over threshing

3. Identification of hidden grain, its withdrawal

4. Distribution of seed loans

5. Suppression of monopolies on threshers and mills

6. Collection of grain according to surplus appropriation for 1919

7. Issuance peasants received textiles, salt, and kerosene in exchange for surplus grain

8. Explaining to the population the principles of the surplus appropriation system of 1919, collecting data on sown areas.

The detachment's headquarters is located in Stavropol. One or two food soldiers were sent to the 16 largest villages of the district for ongoing work. The pro-army soldiers are armed with revolvers and Austrian bayonets. In the event of the appearance of gangs or an armed uprising of peasants, the commissary is obliged to defend the grain at least at the cost of his life. The fight against gangs is the task of other units, primarily CHON. The headquarters sends help only when there is armed resistance from the “kulak element” to the collection of food according to food appropriation. I haven’t found a language with the poor and middle peasants - sort it out yourself, the clock is ticking, a plan must be given. Emergency commissions, including the Cheka, have the right to mobilize army soldiers to carry out emergency tasks.

You and I will live three episodes with the pro-Army Kuritsyn, the commissioner for the village of Chuvashsky Suskan, Khryashchevsky volost. Comrade Kuritsyn is alone there.

Episode one. Identification of hidden surpluses and threshing

During the briefing in Stavropol, Comrade Kuritsyn was pointed out that, according to the testimony of captured rebels, the village had significant reserves of stacked and unthreshed grain. It must be found, removed, threshed.
Arriving in the village, Comrade Kuritsyn gathered a village meeting and made a heated speech about surplus appropriation. The gathering unanimously voted for the implementation of surplus appropriation and the delivery of hidden grain.
Nothing happened, no one revealed anything hidden.
Kuritsyn began to go around all the yards and persuade them to surrender “in an amicable way.”
In all yards, Kuritsyn was presented with only registered, unthreshed grain. Having rewritten it, Comrade Kuritsyn invited the peasants to start threshing it. However, all the working threshers in the village ended up in the hands of a few kulaks, who inflated the rent for their use and took it in kind - grain.
In response, Comrade Kuritsyn again convened a meeting and, with the support of the middle peasants and the poor, pushed through a decision obliging the owners of threshing machines to rent them out without fail at fixed prices set by the village council. The kulaks complied and provided the threshing machines in disrepair. Kuritsyn arrested two kulaks, but the situation did not change - he only received an anonymous message that he would soon be spanked. Kuritsyn began to remain on the alert, but did not know what to do with the threshing. He did not release Kulakov from arrest; he decided to die according to the regulations.
Things moved unexpectedly - Kuritsyn received several anonymous messages at once: Toporkov’s fist, under stacks of unthreshed wheat, has an underground storage facility with a large supply of grain. The search immediately yielded 300 poods.
Following this, at the head of a crowd of excited poor and middle peasants, Kuritsyn conducted searches of all wealthy peasants. Almost everyone had similar storage facilities. In addition, hidden spare parts for threshing machines were found on the kulaks. Kuritsyn informed the UCHK and the security officer who quickly arrived arrested the saboteurs and took them to Stavropol. The confiscated working threshing machines were provided to the peasants for threshing on a first-come, first-served basis. The only steam mill in the village, on the advice of the head of the food detachment, Comrade Manzer, was sealed by Kuritsyn. Grinding grain on it was allowed only to those peasants who completed the surplus appropriation. This order allowed us to cope with the first task quite quickly.

Episode two. Salt riot

At the end of August, a large shipment of salt arrived in the village to exchange for bread in excess of the surplus appropriation. The chairman of the village council and the commissar Kuritsyn were appointed responsible for the distribution. For squandering, wasting and losing salt, both of them were threatened with a revolutionary tribunal.
The news of the arrival of salt exploded the village. The village council was immediately surrounded by a crowd and demanded an immediate division of salt according to the number of eaters in exchange not for bread, but for money.
An emergency meeting of the village council was convened. Despite the opposition of the chairman, it was decided to proceed with the division of salt. Kuritsyn told the meeting that he would not allow the division, since the decision of the village council contradicted the instructions of the district executive committee. Kuritsyn was saved from immediate reprisal by a volost police detachment urgently called by the chairman of the village council. At the sight of policemen armed with rifles, the crowd dispersed cursing.
The next day, in the morning, Comrade Kuritsyn sat alone in the village council and noted the delivery of food appropriations using receipts. Suddenly several men burst in and threw him out the window onto the street, where a crowd armed with axes had gathered. They lifted Kuritsyn by the scruff of the neck, raised an ax over his head and demanded an immediate division of the salt. Kuritsyn refused. They threw him to the ground and argued about who would “finish” him.
At that moment, the peasant Mushtakov, with whom Kuritsyn was lodging, ran up to the crowd and yelled heart-rendingly that the village had had enough of the uprising of “chapans” and he did not intend to disappear with his fellow villagers. Mushtakov’s cry forced the peasants to discuss the topic raised, which saved Kuritsyn from reprisals. The peasants decided to put Kuritsyn under arrest until he gave permission to share the salt. But in the evening Comrade Manzer himself arrived from Stavropol with the soldiers, everyone somehow immediately calmed down and went to exchange the surplus grain for salt. Manzer did not have to arrest anyone.

Episode three. Typhus

In October, Comrade Kuritsyn was accepted into the rural party cell, and he increased the number of communists in Chuvash Suskan by 25%.
In October, the Volga region was hit by a typhus epidemic. The district Epidcheka mobilized all communists to fight the infection. The chairman of the village council performed direct duties and was not subject to mobilization; the other two communists were helpless war invalids. Pro-army soldier Kuritsyn was mobilized.
The typhus epidemic in the Stavropol district had its own specifics. The harvest of 1919 was “good” and bagworms poured into the district, who immediately destroyed the “trash.” A railroad quarantine was introduced in the county, and village councils were ordered to “fight the epidemic with all available means.” No instructions were included with the resolution.
The mobilized Kuritsyn first of all registered all typhus patients in the village. There were a little more than 300 of them - a fifth of the population of Chuvash Suskan.
To organize the isolation ward and hospital, Kuritsyn confiscated the two best houses in the village - the priest's house and the merchant's house - by the Epidchek authorities. The residents were offered the choice of either remaining as working staff or leaving the open space. All the sick were taken to their homes, leaving behind the furnishings for the installation of bunks. Since the epidemic affected everyone, the peasants voluntarily supplied the isolation wards with bread, milk, meat and vegetables. Kuritsyn seized several bathhouses for disinfection chambers. The only thing missing was a doctor or, at worst, a paramedic.
The chairman of the village council issued an order for medical personnel from among local residents and “urban” visitors to buy bread to appear for registration. One 80-year-old grandfather appeared, who during the Crimean War was a company medical assistant. He was appointed chief physician. Grandfather dictated a list of necessary materials. According to Comrade Kuritsyn’s list, he collected soap, disinfectants, antipyretic drugs and “medical equipment” from the district health department.
In November, the patients began to freeze - there was no firewood. The peasants of the village used to heat their huts with straw, but they themselves had little of it. Kuritsyn tried to hold a subbotnik to collect firewood for the hospital, but only he and the chairman showed up. Then they confiscated the firewood that the Cheka was transporting through the village to the Volga piers for fuel procurement. A security officer who arrived from the district drew up an act and handed it over to the Revolutionary Tribunal, demanding that Kuritsyn be shot. But Epidcheka was harnessed for him and Kuritsyn was acquitted.
In the winter, Comrade Kuritsyn himself fell ill with typhus and remained semi-delirious until spring. In 1920 he was sent to Samara to study at the Soviet Party School.

If, when reading this story, you have an image of a stern and brutal Bolshevik revolutionary, then you are mistaken.
Colleagues call Comrade Kuritsyn “Vanya”.
Vanya Kuritsyn is sixteen years old.
In the photo are soldiers of the Buzuluk food detachment in 1920. Among them there are “children” like Vanya.

Vanya was remembered by the last Samara veterans of the party work of those turbulent years - he was included in the collection “Pages of Unforgettable Years”, Kuibyshev, 1988. (

c) Grigory Tsidenkov

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Riga miracle by Maxim Litvinov
October 30, 15:09



An interesting story about how diplomat Maxim Litvinov negotiated with the Americans in Riga regarding food supplies during the 1921 famine.

Riga miracle by Maxim Litvinov.

We signed the agreement with the ARA in August 1921. The hunger nightmare has already begun, the situation is desperate, we are pinned against the wall. Agreement in principle to provide and accept assistance was obtained from both sides.
Hoover sends his delegation to Riga to sign the treaty he drew up, according to which the Americans became a new independent and inviolable force in the country with all that it entails. Who in such a situation will resist the temptation to put the commies on all fours and force them to do Ku? That's right - no one. Now the Soviets will come and sign everything.

On August 10, 1922, at 2:55 p.m., in the premises of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Minister-President of Latvia, Siegfried Meerovits, introduced the authorized representative of the RSFSR to the American delegation to sign the treaty and left.
The Americans were left alone with the plump smart guy in pince-nez - Maxim Maksimych Litvinov.

The head of the American delegation, Mr. Brown, places the text of the 26-point treaty in front of this nerd and waits patiently for this funny little man to read everything.
Litvinov read it and was asked to sign everything immediately.

Once again, for a moment, Litvinov does not have a single trump card; on the contrary, he is even in the red: there is severe time pressure and we are not quickly, purely for technical reasons, releasing and deporting imprisoned American citizens (and this is an indispensable condition for negotiations in general).

Maxim Maksimych adjusted his pince-nez with his finger and asked in surprise: “Excuse me, is this an agreement or an ultimatum? Ultimatums are not discussed and in this case I am not needed here, send it directly to the All-Russian Central Executive Committee.”

The Americans looked at each other and said that this was an agreement. But what can you think - sign and be done with it!
“Excuse me,” Maxim Maksimych asked again, “how long does Mr. Hoover expect an answer?”
- "2 days".
- “It’s very good that Mr. Hoover gave us time to agree, tomorrow morning I will be ready to agree on the text.”
The Americans gnashed their teeth and prepared to say goodbye until tomorrow, but this vile little man stopped them with a new question:
“Excuse me, but where are the cargoes promised by Mr. Hoover now?”
- “In Danzig and here in Riga”
- “Please tell Mr. Hoover that we have issued an order for the unhindered departure of all American citizens. 7 people have already left, here is the list. We kindly ask you to begin the movement of goods. The agreement, without any doubt, will be signed.” .

That's where we parted.

Overnight, the Americans sent a telegram to Hoover, and Litvinov rewrote the entire agreement.
The next day, the Americans' eyes popped out of their heads from such impudence. They tried to shout at Litvinov, saying how is it possible: we started the movement of goods, and you are regulating the agreement?!
To which he shrugged his shoulders in surprise and said that we had fulfilled the preliminary conditions and were very glad that Mr. Hoover had begun sending cargo. Is there anything in the text of the draft contract about shipping dates?
Litvinov's text was sent to Hoover. Hoover, naturally, did not agree with him and demanded immediate signing on the same terms. BUT!
At the same time, Nansen announced his imminent arrival in Revel to sign an agreement with his organization. Litvinov’s text was sent to him as a carbon copy and he agreed on all points! Which Maxim Maksimych did not fail to report.

The Americans realized that they might not be the first! To be second is, according to American standards, a loser. We need to negotiate. Our people also understand that you can’t be completely principled, you have to give in. Brown and Litvinov sit down and, through disputes, bargaining and cursing, they give birth to a new text, which is signed on August 20 (and the goods have already arrived, lol).

It was and became.

paragraph 1. It was: ARA can bring any personnel and Sovpra guarantees them complete freedom and protection.
Become: Agreed without changes.

clause 2. It was: During the stay of these persons in Russia, the Sovpra will provide them with complete freedom of movement, providing them with the necessary documents and letters of safe conduct.
Became: The Soviet authorities, at the request of the ARA, will immediately provide the personnel mentioned in paragraph 1 with the opportunity to enter, leave and move around Russia on official business and will provide them with all the necessary documents, such as: safe conduct letters, open sheets, etc., in order to facilitate his movement.

clause 3. Was: When hiring personnel locally from among Russians and other persons, ARA will enjoy complete freedom of choice.
Became: In hiring local personnel from among Russians and other persons, the ARA will enjoy complete freedom of choice, and the Soviet authorities will, at the request of the ARA, assist it in this.

Item 4. Was: After ARA delivers its relief cargoes at Russian ports, Sovpra will bear expenses, such as the costs of unloading, handling, loading and transportation to the locations of inland bases where ARA will carry out its operations.
Become: Agreed without changes.

clause 5. Was: Sovpra will, at its own expense, provide the necessary warehouses for the storage of goods at the locations of the internal bases mentioned in clause 4, and provide transport processing and transportation of goods from these bases to any other points within the country that may be specified ARA.
Become: Agreed without changes.

paragraph 6. Was: In all the above-mentioned operations for the storage and transportation of relief cargo, the Soviet Authorities provide the ARA with the same advantages over any other cargo that the Soviet Authorities provide to their own relief cargo, while ensuring proper security and convoy.
Become: Agreed without changes.

clause 7. Was: The Soviet Authorities will ensure free import and re-export of all ARA cargo of any kind and will give a guarantee that these cargo will not be subject to requisition.
It became: The Soviet Authorities will ensure the free import and re-export of all ARA cargo of any kind and will provide a guarantee that these cargo will not be subject to requisition. When re-exporting cargo, ARA will pay the Soviet authorities for expenses incurred in connection with this cargo.

pp. 7-10, 13, 16, 18, 23 specialized categories of the population for feeding the ARA, conditions and maintenance of rations, payment for kitchens, stationery for headquarters, free telegraph, telephone, etc. There were no disagreements there.

paragraph 11. Was: The Soviet Authorities undertake to reimburse the ARA in dollars or in kind for the cost of any aid supplies used for other purposes.
Become: Agreed without changes.

paragraph 12. Was: ARA will have the right to create the necessary organizations to carry out its relief work without any governmental or other interference.
Became: The ARA will have the right to create the necessary organizations to carry out its relief work without any governmental or other interference. Central or local bodies of Soviet power have the right to be represented in them.

paragraph 14. Was: In those places where the ARA will conduct its operations and where epidemics are raging, the Soviet Authorities give it the right to take such measures as may be necessary to improve sanitary conditions, protect the water supply, etc.
Become: Agreed without changes.

paragraph 15. It was: The Soviet Authorities will provide the ARA with the necessary office premises, garages, warehouses, etc. free of charge. for its operations and, where possible, heating, lighting and water for these premises. In addition, they will make available to APA adequate accommodation facilities for APA personnel at all locations where APA conducts its operations. All premises mentioned above are not subject to seizure or requisition.
It became: The Soviet Authorities will provide the ARA with the necessary office premises, garages, warehouses, etc. free of charge. for its operations and, where possible, heating, lighting and water for these premises. In addition, they will make available to APA adequate accommodation facilities for APA personnel at all locations where APA conducts its operations. All premises mentioned above are not subject to seizure or requisition. Searches of the said premises may only be carried out with the knowledge and presence of the person in charge of ARA operations in Russia or his representative.

paragraph 17. It was: APA, its American representatives and couriers enjoy the right to freely cross borders.
Became: APA and its American representatives, as well as its couriers, are granted ordinary diplomatic privileges regarding border crossings.

clause 19. It was: ARA personnel are given the right of free passage with their property and cargo throughout Russia.
Became: At the request of the relevant authorities of the ARA, all ARA personnel, along with their equipment and supplies, will be provided with free transportation across Russian territory.

paragraph 20. Was: ARA will be allowed to import and export without imposition of duties and without requisition of vehicles and office equipment necessary for its personnel and administration.
Become: Agreed without changes.

21. Was: The Soviet Authorities will acquaint the Russian people with the purposes and methods of the ARA's relief work in order to facilitate the rapid and effective development thereof, and will also assist in providing the American people with reliable information regarding the existing situation and progress of the relief work, which should be accompanied by increased financial assistance from America.
Became: The Soviet Authorities will acquaint the Russian people with the purposes and methods of ARA relief work in order to facilitate the rapid and effective development of such work, and will also promote the provision to the American people of reliable and apolitical information about the existing situation and progress of relief work, which should accompanied by increased financial assistance from America.

paragraph 22. Was: The Soviet authorities assume all costs associated with relief operations.
Became: The Soviet authorities assume all costs associated with relief operations, with the exception of:
a) the cost of relief cargo in port
b) direct costs of American control and monitoring of relief work in Russia, except as stated above. The Soviet authorities will generally provide the ARA with all the assistance that is in their power, in order to assist it in carrying out its humanitarian assistance activities.

p. 24. It was: Help for the sick and children will be provided regardless of their race and religion.
Became: Help for the sick and children will be provided regardless of their race, religion or social and political status.

paragraph 25. Was: APA personnel in Russia will be strictly limited to providing assistance and will not engage in any commercial or political activities.
Became: APA personnel in Russia will be strictly limited to providing assistance and will not engage in any commercial or political activities. Having in mind paragraph 1 and the fact that American personnel in Russia are not subject to personal search, arrest and detention, any persons from among the said personnel who violate this provision will, at the request of the central Soviet Authorities, be recalled or dismissed from service. The Central Soviet Authorities will present to the head of the ARA the considerations that served as the basis for such requests and the evidence at their disposal.

paragraph 26. Was: ARA will conduct its operations where it considers that its assistance can be provided most effectively and can produce the best results. Its main task is to provide assistance to famine-stricken areas of the Volga region.
It became: we wanted to remove the restriction about the Volga region, but it didn’t work out. We'll clean it up for the New Year. Agreed without changes.

paragraph 27. He was not there, Maxim Maksimych forced him to accept: ARA will not import alcohol in its aid cargo and agrees to customs inspection of the aid cargo it imports at points established by mutual agreement.

(c) Grigory Tsidenkov

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106th anniversary of the October Revolution
November 7, 11:22



Today, all progressive humanity celebrates the 106th anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution, which changed both Russia and the rest of the world.
Against the backdrop of what is happening in the world now, one can clearly observe that capitalism cannot solve the problems facing humanity, wandering in a vicious circle and reproducing long-known vices and horrors. October and socialism were the answer to the dead end of capitalism. It was Russia that was the first to give this answer, and other countries and peoples followed suit. And this struggle for a better future for all humanity continues today.

Happy holiday, comrades! Happy Great October Day!

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