Военное обозрение By Top War
Listen, worker,
The war has begun,
Quit your business,
Get ready for the hike.
We will go boldly into battle,
For the power of the Soviets
And as one we will die,
In the fight for it!
Folk words and music.
I. Vladimirov. “Interrogation in the Committee of the Poor” However, this is the name of the picture. And what is depicted on it, most likely, is the “troika” court, which was introduced in 1919
Unknown Wars. We continue the series of articles devoted to newspaper materials of the Civil War in Russia. It was interrupted for quite objective reasons – it was cold in the archive, and it was not very pleasant to work. But now it’s warm there, and work on the newspapers will continue. Our previous material, not counting the article “Colors of War,” was devoted to the events of the autumn of 1918 and the beginning of the “Red Terror,” which was a response to the assassination attempt on V.I. Lenin and the murder of Uritsky in Petrograd.
But then the 19th year came. Before us is another file of the Izvestia newspaper. We open it and turn to the yellowed, faded pages, which often tear right in your hands. And what do we see in them? A subjective, and sometimes very subjective reflection of completely objective events. Moreover, the selection of newspaper materials itself is also subjective. How could it be otherwise, because then we would have to place the entire newspaper here, which would be simply unthinkable. And, nevertheless, the general tone of the materials, their information content and the manner of presenting messages are visible quite clearly. Let’s turn to the publications of Izvestia and see what they wrote about in the winter and spring of 1919.
And even poems were published there. Poems glorifying the death of the old and the emerging new. So A. Blok was not at all alone in his work at that time!
A very interesting article about the stratification of the village. In some ways it echoes the work of V.I. Lenin “The Development of Capitalism in Russia”. The only pity is that it does not provide at least approximate data on the ratio of kulaks, middle peasants and poor peasants in the countryside. The article calls for careful treatment of the middle peasants, against whom arbitrariness is allowed. So to speak: “separate the lambs from the goats.” And this, of course, was the right approach to the matter. The only question was: “Who are the judges?”
Events abroad
Here is a very interesting material – L. Reisner whitewashes his lover. Well, yes, that same fiery revolutionary, intimate friend of Inessa Armand, who immediately after the revolution occupied an entire palace, wrapped herself in expensive furs, had servants and took a bath of five types of champagne. When her party comrades reprimanded her that this was supposedly unbecoming, she replied: “Didn’t we make the revolution for ourselves?!”
Details of the murder of Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg
As we remember, the minutes of the meeting of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee of September 2, 1918, prescribed:
“Shoot all counterrevolutionaries. Give district committees the right to execute on their own… Set up small concentration camps in the districts… Take measures to prevent corpses from falling into unwanted hands…”
Responsible comrades in the Cheka and in the regional Chekas were ordered to be present at the executions, to see everything with their own eyes and at the same time to worry that if something happened, they would not be spared in the same way. As a result, people in Russia began to be shot according to orders issued from above, guided by the principle: “If there was a person, there would be a reason to spank him!” In St. Petersburg, for example, an order was issued to shoot 500 “former” people. But the faithful son of the CPSU (b), the head of the St. Petersburg security officers, Gleb Bokiy, exceeded it by 800 people, shooting 900 people in St. Petersburg itself and another 400 in Kronstadt…
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