We expose another portion of the fakes attributed to Lenin
Veschy Oleg
June 25, 2017
The 100th anniversary of the Great October Revolution is approaching, and in connection with this, anti-Soviet hysteria is intensifying, it is impossible to justify it, remaining on the territory of the facts. But if you leave it and move to the territory of lies and interpretations, then everything becomes possible. One of the fields of these territories is the statements of VI Lenin. We watch closely the hands.
For the success of manipulation, you can:
a) pull phrases out of context;
b) chop slices of phrases and, by gluing them together, get any product-statement, attributing this product to Lenin himself.
Some of them we have already considered, but the more interesting is the resulting "cross-over" questioning of falsifiers. This "interrogation" was conducted by Henry Alexandrov.
About terror
Perhaps, most often anti-communists use Lenin's quotations about terror, or simply take some work, and tear out pieces of it in such a way that it seems that speech in it is about terror.
Here is one of these "quotes":
"The war is not for life, but for death to the rich and hangers-on, to the bourgeois intellectuals ... they must be dealt with, with the slightest violation ... In one place they will put them in jail ... In the other they will put them to clean the lavatories. In the third - they will be provided with yellow tickets upon the departure of the punishment cell ... In the fourth - they will be shot on the spot ... The more varied, the better, the richer the general experience will be ... " December 24-27, 1917 (Lenin VI Poln. T. 35. P. 200, 201, 204. - From the work "How to organize a competition?")
Here we see the old, time-tested tactics of extracting quotations from the context, and from three different places in one article. The full quotes look like this (in the bold text the author-falsifier was "pulled out" from there):
" The war is not for life, but for the death of the rich and their hangers-on, the bourgeois intellectuals War swindlers, idlers and hooligans, "
" Rich and rogues - are sides of the same coin, it is - the two main categories of parasites, nurtured by capitalism, it is - the main enemies of socialism, these enemies must be placed under special surveillance of the entire population, it is necessary to deal with them , at the slightest violation of the rules and laws of socialist society by them, mercilessly "
From the first passage the author "removed" crooks, parasites and hooligans (well, the bloody Lenin can not fight with negative characters), from the second - in general the whole semantic load, and, of course, the main thing - the passage about the violation of rules and laws, which implies the inevitability punishment. The last passage, according to the idea of the author, should clearly show how to punish poor poor people on the idea of a tyrant. But in fact, it says only about the need to develop "the right forms and ways of practical accounting and control over the rich, rogues and parasites." This is about re-education, not destruction, not only of the bourgeois elements, but also of the party members:
Obviously, if you just open that same 35th volume and read the article "How to organize a competition?" - all the works of anticommunists who spread excerpts from it in a truncated form will go to waste." In one place they will put him in jail a dozen rich men, a dozen crooks, half a dozen workers shirking their work (as hooligan as many compositors in St. Petersburg, many of them in party printing houses). In another - they will put them to clean the lavatories. In the third, they will be provided with yellow tickets, upon the departure of the punishment cell, so that all the people, before correcting them, would supervise them as if they were harmful people. In the fourth - they will shoot on the spot of one of the ten guilty of parasitism. In the fifth, combinations of different means will be invented and, for example, conditional release, they will quickly correct the correctable elements of the rich, bourgeois intellectuals, crooks and hooligans. The more diverse, the better, the richer the overall experience will be, the more true and faster will be the success of socialism, the easier it will work out practice - for only practice can work out - the best methods and means of struggle. "
*** The next quotation is adored by both liberals and nationalists:
Indeed, at first glance (and especially the philistine view, to which anti-communists appeal), this excerpt from Lenin's letter to DI Kursky, the future People's Commissar of Justice of the RSFSR, with a sketch of an additional paragraph of the Criminal Code sounds very bloodthirsty. According to the note (the same volume, p. 549), "Lenin's proposals were taken into account in the further development of the section of the Criminal Code" On counterrevolutionary crimes. " But still, we need to take into account the context, and the moment in which these lines were written. Terror was then used literally by all sides of the conflict, not only in Russia, but the young Bavarian and Hungarian Soviet republics were drowned in blood. Here is what Lenin wrote about this:"... The court must not eliminate terror; to promise this would be self-deception or deception, and to justify and legalize it in principle, clearly, without hypocrisy and without embellishment. " May 17, 1922 (Lenin VI PSS, T. 45. P. 190).
"Let the lazy accomplices of Whiteguard terror praise themselves for denying them all terror. And we will say a hard, but unquestionable truth: in countries experiencing an unprecedented crisis, the disintegration of old ties, the aggravation of the class struggle after the imperialist war of 1914-18, such are all the countries of the world-one can not do without terror, in spite of hypocrites and phrase-mongers. Either the White Guard, the bourgeois terror of the American, English (Ireland), Italian (Fascists), German, Hungarian and other styles, or red, proletarian terror. There is no middle ground, there is no "third" and can not be. " (Lenin VI, PSS, T. 43, page 234)
Could Soviet Russia, in those circumstances, abandon the terror and still survive? Obviously not. It can also be noted that Lenin believed that harsh measures are also necessary in relation to the Communists who abused their position:
" Evasion of the worst, this is the abuse of the old officials, landowners, bourgeois and other bastards who have joined the Communists, who sometimes commit disgusting excesses and disgrace, abuse of the peasantry. Here we need a terrorist purge: the court is in place and the execution is unconditional. " (Lenin VI, PSS, T. 43, pp. 235)
Another particularly frequently used by the anti-communists of Lenin's quotations is usually used as evidence of Lenin's hatred of the peasants:
Indeed, at first glance (and especially the philistine view, to which anti-communists appeal), this excerpt from Lenin's letter to DI Kursky, the future People's Commissar of Justice of the RSFSR, with a sketch of an additional paragraph of the Criminal Code sounds very bloodthirsty. According to the note (the same volume, p. 549), "Lenin's proposals were taken into account in the further development of the section of the Criminal Code" On counterrevolutionary crimes. " But still, we need to take into account the context, and the moment in which these lines were written. Terror was then used literally by all sides of the conflict, not only in Russia, but the young Bavarian and Hungarian Soviet republics were drowned in blood. Here is what Lenin wrote about this:
"Let the lazy accomplices of Whiteguard terror praise themselves for denying them all terror. And we will say a hard, but unquestionable truth: in countries experiencing an unprecedented crisis, the disintegration of old ties, the aggravation of the class struggle after the imperialist war of 1914-18, such are all the countries of the world-one can not do without terror, in spite of hypocrites and phrase-mongers. Either the White Guard, the bourgeois terror of the American, English (Ireland), Italian (Fascists), German, Hungarian and other styles, or red, proletarian terror. There is no middle ground, there is no "third" and can not be. " (Lenin VI, PSS, T. 43, page 234)Could Soviet Russia, in those circumstances, abandon the terror and still survive? Obviously not. It can also be noted that Lenin believed that harsh measures are also necessary in relation to the Communists who abused their position:
" Evasion of the worst, this is the abuse of the old officials, landowners, bourgeois and other bastards who have joined the Communists, who sometimes commit disgusting excesses and disgrace, abuse of the peasantry. Here we need a terrorist purge: the court is in place and the execution is unconditional. " (Lenin VI, PSS, T. 43, pp. 235)
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Another particularly frequently used by the anti-communists of Lenin's quotations is usually used as evidence of Lenin's hatred of the peasants:
"... peasants do not all understand that free trade in bread is a state crime. "I made bread, this is my product, and I have the right to trade with them," the peasant argues, according to habit, according to antiquity. And we say that this is a state crime. " November 19, 1919 (VI Lenin, Collected Works, Vol. 39, p. 315).
Here, I think, it will be useful to give a large passage to make the context clearer:
"The victory over Denikin will not finally destroy the capitalists. We all must understand this. We know perfectly well that they will again and again try to throw a noose around Soviet Russia. Therefore, the peasant has no choice; he must help the workers, for the slightest hesitation gives victory to the hands of the landowners and capitalists. To develop this consciousness among the peasants is our first and foremost task. A peasant who lives by his labor is a faithful ally of Soviet power; to such a peasant a worker treats as an equal, for him the working power does everything that it can do, and there is no such sacrifice before which the workers 'and peasants' power would stop for the sake of satisfying the needs of such a peasant. But the peasant who exploits due to the fact that he has surplus grain is our enemy.The duty to satisfy the basic needs of a hungry country is a public duty. But peasants far from all understand that the free trade in grain is a state crime. "I made bread, this is my product, and I have the right to trade with them," the peasant argues, according to habit, according to antiquity. And we say that this is a state crime . The free trade in grain means the enrichment of bread thanks to this - this is a return to old capitalism, we will not allow this, here we will fight at any price. "
It can be seen that this quote also refers to the hungry year 1919, a hard time for the Soviet government and for all of Russia, by the time Kollontai delivered her speech "The Tsar-Golod brazenly walks the world ...", and Mayakovsky wrote:
"Trumpet about the famine in Europe's ears!
Share and those who have little!
Peasants, dig trenches of trenches!
Shoot it with bags of tax! "
And it is directed against not against the peasants as a whole, but against scoundrels who want to cash in on hunger, who want to sell their bread at a higher price at a time when it was most necessary for all the people. Is not this a crime?
The 50th volume
Very popular among modern anti-Communists is the 50th volume of the PSS of Lenin, so much that I decided to single out it here separately. It is understandable - in this volume there are a huge number of Lenin's telegrams with instructions to Soviet military commanders and Party workers during the Civil War. Naturally, many of these directions without knowledge of the context may seem excessively bloodthirsty - and this is precisely the purpose of the publications of the haters of Lenin.
Here is a vivid example:
In this case, the citation was transmitted almost entirely (the author only "omitted" the moment about the organization of protection - as not enough bloody and uninteresting to the potential reader, most likely):
"It is necessary to organize enhanced protection from selectly reliable people, to conduct ruthless mass terror against kulaks, priests and White Guards; dubious to lock into a concentration camp outside the city . "
Only one thing is missing: the circumstances under which this telegram was sent. On August 5, 1918, a kulak revolt began in the Penza region, which can be read in the same 50th volume of the PSS in notes (p. 442). Lenin, indignant at the insufficient activity of the Penza Party leadership, sent several telegrams indicating the organization of the suppression of the insurrection (PSS VI Lenin, vol. 50, pp. 143-144, 148, 149 and 156). Lenin writes about mass terror, but, we note, against "kulaks, priests and whiteguards" in a separate Penza district.
I would also note that the insurrection was abolished on August 8 (according to other sources - on August 12), and the only information about the repressions during the suppression is the somewhat contradictory data: in one source it is stated that "the participants in the murder of five prodarmes and three members of the village council with . Piles of the Penza district and organizers of the insurgency (13 people) were arrested and shot. " In the other, there is even a list of 12 of those who were shot, of course: "provocateur and agent of the tsarist secret police Konstantin Ivanov, who extradited both the Socialist-Revolutionaries and the Social Democrats; the former leader of the nobility of the Chernigov province, Prince Musin-Pushkin, who made his way from Ukraine to Samara in peasant clothes and gathered information about the units of the Red Army, a member of the Union of the Russian People; former head of the Penza provincial gendarmerie administration Kremetsky; former officer of the second part of Penza Rodin; Protopriest Pavlin Smirnov (for anti-Soviet propaganda); the commissioner of the Latvian horse squadron S. Gladkov (for extortion, drunkenness and concealment of the criminal past); a gang of four robbers who robbed in the form of Red Guards; two counterfeiters. " Unfortunately, I can not verify these sources for reliability, however, this does not negate the fact that in the situation prevailing in Penza at the time of Lenin's telegrams (armed rebellion against the backdrop of the civil war), the actions proposed by Ilyich (point terror against the instigators of the mutiny ), look quite adequate. robbing in the form of Red Guards; two counterfeiters. " Unfortunately, I can not verify these sources for reliability, however, this does not negate the fact that in the situation prevailing in Penza at the time of Lenin's telegrams (armed rebellion against the backdrop of the civil war), the actions proposed by Ilyich (point terror against the instigators of the mutiny ), look quite adequate. robbing in the form of Red Guards; two counterfeiters. " Unfortunately, I can not verify these sources for reliability, however, this does not negate the fact that in the situation prevailing in Penza at the time of Lenin's telegrams (armed rebellion against the backdrop of the civil war), the actions proposed by Ilyich (point terror against the instigators of the mutiny ), look quite adequate.
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Here is another quote from the 50th volume of the PSS, actively disseminated by anti-communists:
"Saratov (adviser to the People's Commissariat of Food) Paikes ... I advise you to appoint your superiors and shoot conspirators and waverers, not asking anyone and not allowing idiotic red tape."
August 22, 1918. (VI Lenin, Collected Works, Collected Works, Vol. 50, p. 165).
This is a text from a telegram by V.I. Lenin AK to Paikes, authorized by the People's Commissariat of Food, who is in Saratov, slightly curtailed, but without loss of meaning:
"Now I will talk to the military on the phone about all your requirements. Temporarily I advise you to appoint your chiefs and shoot conspirators and waverers, not asking anyone and not allowing idiotic red tape. And to get a response from me, either wait on the telegraph, or set up a watch one at a time, or set the time in an hour or two. Answer "
Only here we are talking about measures against ... local party leaders responsible for poor supplies, and not" poor "White Guards, priests or kulaks (which the anti-communist author probably wanted to show). A note to this telegram on page 446 of the same fiftieth volume states:
"The authorized representative of the People's Commissariat of Food, A.K. Paikes and the political commissar of the 4th Army Zorin reported from Saratov about the poor supply of military units and asked to take emergency measures to send uniforms, ammunition and ammunition. "
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Another quote from the same volume is useful to anti-Communists in a double way, because, firstly, it may seem particularly bloodthirsty to an unfamiliar context, and secondly - it is addressed to another revolutionary "leader" - Lev Trotsky - "beloved" by our homegrown whiteguards:
"I'm surprised and alarmed at the slowing down of the operation against Kazan, especially if it is correctly informed me that you have the full opportunity to destroy the enemy with artillery. In my opinion, you can not feel sorry for the city and put it off longer, for it is necessary to ruthlessly exterminate ... ". September 10, 1918. (VI Lenin, Collected Works, Collected Works, Vol. 50, p. 178).
Well, we look at the original:
"I 'm surprised and alarmed by the slowing down of the operation against Kazan, especially if it is correctly reported to me that you have the full opportunity to destroy the enemy with artillery. In my opinion, you can not spare the city and save it longer, for it is necessary to ruthlessly exterminate, if only it is true that Kazan is in an iron ring "
The author chose to cut off the phrase about "Kazan in the Iron Ring", cutting off the telegram with an eloquent (in his opinion, dots) (probably implying "merciless extermination of all living things on the territory of Kazan with artillery fire"). If we take into account the realities of the war, especially the civil war, the extermination of the enemy surrounded by him is more a necessity than the bloodthirsty Lenin's. In any case, Kazan was taken eight hours after Trotsky received this telegram, and without special fights, the Whites simply fled.
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Another popular quote among anti-communists is taken, apparently, solely because of the word "concentration camp" in it:
"I advise you not to rush the expulsion of foreigners. Is not it better to be in a concentration camp ... "
June 3, 1919 (VI Lenin, Collected Works, Vol. 50, p. 335).
This is a quote from a letter of V.I. Lenin to I.V. Stalin on June 3, 1919. Completely the phrase sounds so:
" As for foreigners, I advise you not to rush by expulsion. Is not it better to go to the concentration camp , then exchange it. "
It is clear that this is an ordinary, and quite practical indication - indeed, why expel enemies, if you can later exchange them for your comrades? The anti-communists clearly believed that the inexperienced reader would give the impression that "the concentration camps were invented not by the Nazis at all, but by Lenin." Although it is common knowledge that concentration camps were used by the Spaniards during the War of Independence in Cuba, and by the British during the Boer War. But some fools write articles like this, under the proud title "The organizer of the first concentration camps is V.I. Lenin ".
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The last "quotation" from the 50th volume, which I will discuss here, also refers to one of Lenin's "military" telegrams:
"Decree and carry out a complete disarmament of the population, shoot mercilessly on the spot for any concealed rifle . " (Lenin VI, PSS, T. 50, pp. 324)
This is the final stage of the struggle against gangs of Ataman Grigoriev in Ukraine, in May 1919. Here's how the quote sounds completely:
" Do not miss the moment of victory over Grigoriev, do not let go of any soldiers from the fighters against Grigoriev. Decree and implement the complete disarmament of the population, shoot mercilessly on the spot for any concealed rifle . All the nail of the moment: a quick victory in the Donbass, the collection of all rifles from the villages, a meeting of a strong army. "
In the context of the almost guerrilla war against the Bolsheviks, such a decree looks logical enough. As for his "bloodthirstiness" - it's enough just to read about what members of Grigoriev's bandit groups were doing in the settlements they occupied. Of course, 148 Jewish pogroms ( Richard Pipes , "The Russian Revolution, Russia under the Bolsheviks 1918-1924" ) are unlikely to discredit Grigoriev in the eyes of the reader-Russian nationalist. However, Russians (just by nationality, as "Moskals") Grigoriev's bandits robbed and killed in the same way as Jews.
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In general, all the quotes from the 50th volume used by modern "new Whiteguards" have notes at the end of the volume (actually, as in all the other volumes), which help to better understand what was meant in this or that letter, order or telegram. Considering that in the book there are exclusively telegrams and letters from Lenin himself, but not answers to them, checking notes is just necessary for understanding the context. But the ultra-right students do not seem to need it.
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Agitki "in haste"
Probably anti-communists are lazy to comb all the 55 volumes of Lenin in search of "something hot", so they often use rather suspicious propaganda-like excerpts, such as this one found in my post "Quotations of Lenin, from which cold blood "on pics.ru:
"... I advise you to put all the theaters in a coffin.
The People's Commissar for Enlightenment should be engaged not in theater, but in literacy. "
Lenin, August 26, 1921. (Lenin VI Full text Collected Works, Vol. 53. P. 142.)
We read the original:
"I can not take it, because I'm sick.
All the theaters I advise putting in the coffin.
To be honest, I did not see anything here at all, from which the blood can" shudder. " Indeed, it would be rather strange to think about theaters in the midst of the Civil War and the famine. However, for the sake of clarification, I looked in the notes:
"This telephone message is a response to a letter from AV Lunacharsky dated August 25, 1921 with a request to accept it on the issue of the reorganization of the Moscow Art Theater; the letter ended with the words that if the proposals set forth in the letter can not be accepted, then the theater will be "put in a coffin". Lenin used this expression of Lunacharsky in his telephone message. "
In general, it is quite possible to dispense with comments, especially given that in the RSFSR, after all, there were theaters, and nobody put them into the coffin.
Here is another, no less common, distorted and completely lost its meaning quote:
It often occurs on the Internet, usually the source indicates the 49th volume of the MSS, but the page is always different: p. 150, p. 154, p. 156. It seems that the bloodthirsty and hateful intelligentsia calls on Lenin to oppress lawyers (well, how about , "Criminal" after all). But in fact, this is a distorted quote from the Ninth Volume of the PSS:
"Lawyers should be taken into the gloves of a hedge and put in a state of siege, for this intellectual scum often paskudnichaet. In advance, they must be declared: if you, the son of a bitch, allow yourself even the slightest impropriety or political opportunism (talk about underdevelopment, the infidelity of socialism, about enthusiasm, denial of social democrats of violence, the peaceful nature of their doctrine and movement, etc., or at least something like that), then I, the defendant, will tear you away in public, call a scoundrel, declare that I refuse such protection, etc. And bring these threats to execution. To take lawyers only clever, others do not . "(Lenin VI, PSS, T. 9, p. 171)
And this is about selecting the right lawyers to defend party comrades, and not about reprisals against lawyers.
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Lenin-Russophobe
Another favorite topic of anti-communists is the invented by them Russophobia of Vladimir Ilich himself. Very often they use "excerpts" from his work "On the question of nationalities or about" autonomization. " Most often, this passage is used:
"... a truly Russian person, a great Russian chauvinist, in fact, a scoundrel and a rapist." (Lenin VI, PSS, T. 45, page 359)
He has already been exposed many times, including by leading Vladimir Solovyov in the recent issue of the TV program "Duel", but just in case, I will quote completely:
"Under such conditions it is very natural that the "freedom to withdraw from the union", to which we justify ourselves, will be an empty piece of paper, incapable of protecting Russian aliens from the invasion of a truly Russian person, a great Russian chauvinist, in fact, a scoundrel and rapist, such as a typical Russian bureaucrat . "
The speech in the quote, in fact, is not about the Russian people, but about the Russian bureaucrat. Sometimes our nationalists are still indignant over the phrase "Russian assault", which occurs in this work, in the context ... Oh yes, the context for anti-communists is not important. But still:
"I think that no provocation, no insult, can not justify this Russian assault and that Comrade. Dzerzhinsky irreparably to blame for the fact that he reacted lightly to this assault. "
We are talking about a very specific case - the dispute com. Ordzhonikidze with the group of P. G. Mdivani about the political structure of Georgia, during which Ordzhonikidze, "being insulted by one of the supporters of this group, struck him" (Lenin VI, PSS, T. 45, p. 595). That is, Lenin simply calls the assault of one of the Russian features (it is justifiable, it should be noted). And exactly the same situation is with all the "Russophobic quotations" by Ilyich. Here's another:
"A Russian man is a bad worker compared to advanced nations."
We read the entire quotation - and the meaning changes immediately:
"A Russian man is a bad worker compared to advanced nations. And this could not be otherwise under the regime of tsarism and the liveliness of the remnants of serfdom. " (Lenin VI, PSS, T. 36, p.
189)
And indeed, it would be strange if the author of the article "On the National Pride of the Great Russians" suddenly turned out to be a Russophobe:
" Do not we, the Great Russian conscious proletarians, feel a sense of national pride? Of course not! We love our language and our homeland, we are working above all to raise the working masses (ie, 9/10 of its population) to the conscious life of democrats and socialists. It is most painful for us to see and feel how the tsar's executioners, the nobles and the capitalists, are subjecting our beautiful homeland to violence, oppression and mockery. We are proud that these violent attacks were repulsed from our midst, among the Great Russians, that this environment was put forward by Radishchev, the Decembrists, raznochintsy revolutionaries of the seventies, that the Great Russian working class created in 1905 a powerful revolutionary party of the masses that the Great-Russian peasant at the same time becoming a democrat, began to overthrow the priest and the landowner. " (Lenin VI, PSS, T. 26, page 107)
" We are full of feelings of national pride for the Great Russian nation also created a revolutionary class, it also proved that it is capable of giving to mankind great examples of struggle for freedom and for socialism, and not only great pogroms, rows of gallows, torture chambers, great hunger strikes and great servility to priests, kings, landowners and capitalists ". (Lenin VI, PSS, T. 26, pp. 107-108)
Could the author of such lines be a Russophobe? Obviously not.
Source
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