• poVoq@slrpnk.net
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    2 hours ago

    More historical inaccuracies. The first people the Bolshevik purged were people that naively thought they were on the same side.

    And no, the original Soviets wanted to create self-administered communities and work-places. Taking over centralized state power makes no sense with that goal in mind.

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      1 hour ago

      Nothing I have said is historically inaccurate. The Bolsheviks opposed cadets, mensheviks, and other groups that wished to retain the Tsar’s colonies, wanted to prolong the war, and opposed Soviet power. The Soviets were a connected system, itself a state. Overthrowing the provisional government and solidifying the Soviet state as the only state does not oppose their purpose in the slightest, and it was a decision democratically approved.

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        1 hour ago

        More fan-fiction and post-hoc justifications. You seriously need to read some historically accurate accounts of what happened at the time.

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          1 hour ago

          I have read historically accurate accounts, though you define historical accuracy by it not being written by anyone succeeding. I’ve also asked for sources, and you haven’t brought any beyond linking the anarchist library.

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            24 minutes ago

            History written by the winners is ok according to you as long as you agree with it. That is really funny.

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              10 minutes ago

              Nah, history is written by both winners and losers. What’s important is historical accuracy, and which class’s perspective and outlook is being presented. Equating socialist historiography with bourgeois historiography is a false equivalence.