The Russian
revolution is now remembered for its ruthless massacre of the royal family and millions of government
servants and ordinary people who had a different thinking than the communists. Has it helped humanity or the Russians?
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revolution takes place to replace a corrupt system or thinking and to usher in a better way of life or philosophy. The Russian comrades took arms in the name of the ‘dictatorship of the proletariat.’ They established the hegemony of the workers and brought every means of
production and distribution under the state. People had to work for the state and share the produce.
Private ownership of land or capital was not allowed. The citizens had to be content with the rations the state apportioned each one of them according to its own norms.
Religions were persecuted and the belief in God banished. No other philosophy or thinking was allowed. Everyone had to program their brains in the communist thinking. The free will ingrained in each human had to be shelved.
After a few centuries many peoplether, perhaps, forgot they were humans. They simply became animals who heard what the state told them through the media and leaflets and study classes. If someone had access to free literature and tried to question the authority of the dictatorship of the proletariat, he would not probably see the next day’s light. Scientists had to think in the communist way or invent what the state wanted.
Writers had to sing halleluiah in praise of Leninism. ‘Free writing became the thing of antiquity. Naturally as the human brain was in chains whatever it produced lost the charm and beauty. It all became mechanical repetitions.
But the impact on the economy was the most perilous. As individuals lost right to private property and ownership, nobody tried to better in any way. People worked for the state and they did what was told. No significant improvement occurred in industry and food production. Everyone did what was told in a mechanical way. In the absence of drive and enthusiasm agriculture and industry regressed. Even food production got drastically reduced. Ordinary people had to queue for a piece of bread.
Apart from building the defense forces and the accompanying weaponry development (obviously to show communism had triumphed) everything else collapsed. Communism was ushered in the name of socialism. And that was blatantly absent. The ordinary masses had no access to the advanced products from the west. But the communist party leaders were rich and enjoyed every conceivable luxury. They had free access to all foreign goods. They had the right for private property. The top leaders were immensely rich owning private islands and luxury yachts while the poor were starving.
USSR was one sixth of the land area.. It had the maximum resources –like gold and diamond deposits, oil, forest wealth and endless acres of cultivable land. The wealthiest nation was reduced to penury in a little more than two or three decades. The nations which had been forcibly converted into the communist bloc had been reduced to penury too. East Germany, the east European countries, Cuba, Vietnam and so on. While the capitalist countries progressed fast these communist states-one and all- regressed! What a service the revolution has done to mankind! It made poor millions of people and took away their joy of living in a free society.
Even now there are some pockets which retain communist label: two or three states of India, countrieslike Cuba, and now Venezuela. All the others have embraced capitalist principles and free economy. Even China has. Hats off o the rulers of that communist country to accept the truth. But there is a lot yet to be desired so that man can live with freedom and dignity.