What are your plans for the Bolshevik centenary?

VladamirP

Just thought I'd throw it out there, I know it's almost a year away but what are yiz all planning for the centenary celebrations of the great Bolshevik Revolution ?


Have yiz any photo's of the 99th Bolshevik Revolution celebration yiz want to share?, post them here first.

Junkyard Tom

I'm going to acknowledge it by building a gulag and imprisoning everyone who disagrees with me.

maudgonner

Wodka?

Zaph

I think I'll have a purge, everybody loves a good purge.

maudgonner

Zaph wrote: »

I think I'll have a purge, everybody loves a good purge.

Enough about your toilet habits already.

Keplar240B

With the passing of communism into the dustbin of history as an ideological alternative to democracy it is time to do some accounting of its human costs. Few would deny any longer that communism--Marxism-Leninism and its variants--meant in practice bloody terrorism, deadly purges, lethal gulags and forced labor, fatal deportations, man-made famines, extrajudicial executions and show trials, and genocide. It is also widely known that as a result millions of innocent people have been murdered in cold blood.

Communism has been the greatest social engineering experiment we have ever seen. It failed utterly and in doing so it killed over 100,000,000 men, women, and children, not to mention the near 30,000,000 of its subjects that died in its often aggressive wars and the rebellions it provoked

VladamirP

Keplar240B wrote: »

With the passing of communism into the dustbin of history as an ideological alternative to democracy it is time to do some accounting of its human costs. Few would deny any longer that communism--Marxism-Leninism and its variants--meant in practice bloody terrorism, deadly purges, lethal gulags and forced labor, fatal deportations, man-made famines, extrajudicial executions and show trials, and genocide. It is also widely known that as a result millions of innocent people have been murdered in cold blood.

Communism has been the greatest social engineering experiment we have ever seen. It failed utterly and in doing so it killed over 100,000,000 men, women, and children, not to mention the near 30,000,000 of its subjects that died in its often aggressive wars and the rebellions it provoked

Hey did you do the count on democracy?

corner of hells

Keplar240B wrote: »

With the passing of communism into the dustbin of history as an ideological alternative to democracy it is time to do some accounting of its human costs. Few would deny any longer that communism--Marxism-Leninism and its variants--meant in practice bloody terrorism, deadly purges, lethal gulags and forced labor, fatal deportations, man-made famines, extrajudicial executions and show trials, and genocide. It is also widely known that as a result millions of innocent people have been murdered in cold blood.

Communism has been the greatest social engineering experiment we have ever seen. It failed utterly and in doing so it killed over 100,000,000 men, women, and children, not to mention the near 30,000,000 of its subjects that died in its often aggressive wars and the rebellions it provoked

So , what were ya thinking of doing ?

VladamirP

corner of hells wrote: »

So , what were ya thinking of doing ?

Exactly, that's what I was thinking, is he gonna party like it's 1999? (Prince)

Junkyard Tom

Keplar240B wrote: »

Few would deny any longer that communism--Marxism-Leninism and its variants--meant in practice bloody terrorism, deadly purges, lethal gulags and forced labor, fatal deportations, man-made famines, extrajudicial executions and show trials, and genocide. It is also widely known that as a result millions of innocent people have been murdered in cold blood.

Few too would deny that capitalism did just same.

VladamirP

Junkyard Tom wrote: »

Few too would deny that capitalism did just same.

And worse.

endacl

I'll probably commemorate it in exactly the same way as I commemorated whatever it was happened somewhere 100 years ago today.

#whateveritwashappenedsomewhere100yearsagotoday #neverforget

Arghus

A few brewskis.

padd b1975

I'll probably fashion a hat from a dead animal.

VladamirP

endacl wrote: »

I'll probably commemorate it in exactly the same way as I commemorated whatever it was happened somewhere 100 years ago today.

#whateveritwashappenedsomewhere100yearsagotoday #neverforget

Exactly.

VladamirP

Arghus wrote: »

A few brewskis.

And why not?....Победы.

padd b1975 wrote: »

I'll probably fashion a hat from a dead animal.

Да ...... ваша жена.

Great stuff.

FortySeven

I suppose I could raise the Bolshevik flag over my Facebook profile picture and leave it there for a year or so.

As early as December 1917 the Bolsheviks were light years ahead of the Anglo world in giving women equality, rights to initiate divorce and to have access to free healthcare and a minimum income.

An extraordinary woman:

Alexandra Kollontai

For all the giving out people do about communism one wonders how much of the welfare state from the late 1940s, or indeed Roosevelt's New Deal in the 1930s, would have been introduced without the ideological threat of communism/socialism.

Duckworth_Luas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CZ74m28I3E

Iwasfrozen

By metaphorically pissing on their graves.

VladamirP

Iwasfrozen wrote: »

By metaphorically pissing on their graves.

Whatever your into.

Junkyard Tom

Deleted User wrote: »

For all the giving out people do about communism...

We're not supposed to speak of the gains that the Soviet Union 'engineered'... spectacular increases in levels of literacy/education, universal health care, poverty amelioration, first class infrastructure, feudalism-to-industrialisation, women's participation in civic life, life-expectancy, child mortality etc etc.

gramar

Poppies for everyone.

Widdershins

Hiding my jewellery and Giving Out about Communism.

Actually I'll spare a thought for all of the victims. None of whom deserved any of it.
I've recently spoken to a descendant of the Romanovs.

Cool_CM

Listen to some Anastacia.
She's got a great voice for a 115 year old and she's been through quite a lot.

Widdershins

Deleted User wrote: »

As early as December 1917 the Bolsheviks were light years ahead of the Anglo world in giving women equality, rights to initiate divorce and to have access to free healthcare and a minimum income.

An extraordinary woman:

Alexandra Kollontai

For all the giving out people do about communism one wonders how much of the welfare state from the late 1940s, or indeed Roosevelt's New Deal in the 1930s, would have been introduced without the ideological threat of communism/socialism.

Every filthy grey cloud of misery has a silver lining. Shame it was bought in blood.
Life under Nazi rule was better for many people. There is always a reason why people tolerate and even participate in wickedness.

topper75

Sorry OP I'm all partied out after that WealthofNations240 do. That Adam Smith was the host with the most.

Ted111

Keplar240B wrote: »

fatal deportations,

We should be having a referendum on that next year, will hopefully
solve that.

hannible the cannible

VladamirP wrote: »

Just thought I'd throw it out there, I know it's almost a year away but what are yiz all planning for the centenary celebrations of the great Bolshevik Revolution ?


Have yiz any photo's of the 99th Bolshevik Revolution celebration yiz want to share?, post them here first.

I think we should commemorate it by sentencing anyone that uses the scum bag term "yiz" in written context to 10 years hard labour in siberia

Gatling

Going to drink plenty of Swedish Vodka and watch Rambo lll and Rocky 4 and Top Gun repeatedly for 12 months in celebration

biko

I'm planning how to kill millions of people but still be popular with journalists a hundred years later.

Your Face

I think I'll buy some land to celebrate.

BoJack Horseman

I promise to make this years tractor production the best yet!

Dohnjoe

Junkyard Tom wrote: »

We're not supposed to speak of the gains that the Soviet Union 'engineered'... spectacular increases in levels of literacy/education, universal health care, poverty amelioration, first class infrastructure, feudalism-to-industrialisation, women's participation in civic life, life-expectancy, child mortality etc etc.

We are. It's just that most people also include the all important negatives which give the whole situation context

Anything can be cherry-picked, e.g. Saddam in Iraq built up a large middle class, universities, new roads, infrastructure projects..

Like I said, context is important comrades

Tabnabs

I'll watch 1984 to remind myself what abject horror an authoritarian regime would be like.

Then I'll go shopping in a big supermarket and marvel at all the choice of fresh produce on the shelves before buying fresh bread without having to queue for it. Return to my privately owned home and be grateful for living in a free society that doesn't see the need to manipulate its citizens and control their world view from the cradle to the grave.

Yeah, communism was ****ty and lived a violent, destructive and all too long existence before the very people it sought to subjugate overthrew it in a remarkably peaceful and complete manor.

Mr. FoggPatches

I'm gonna push my lada to the levee and hope it isn't dry.

Pat Dunne

My understanding of Communism is that in its pure and theoretical form it is a worthy alternative. However the difficulties arise, when you introduce the human element into the theory.

BoJack Horseman

Pat Dunne wrote: »

However the difficulties arise, when you introduce the human element into the theory.

So it's a 100% catastrophic failure then!

FortySeven

BoJack Horseman wrote: »

So it's a 100% catastrophic failure then!

No. The 1% always seem to do well.

FortySeven

FortySeven wrote: »

No. The 1% always seem to do well.

hehe. Touché!

Winterlong

OP Banned.

Perestroika and Glasnost me arse!

Hande hoche!

Winterlong wrote: »

OP Banned.

Perestroika and Glasnost me arse!

Expect him to start disappearing from official photos.

gandalf

I'll wear a nice white shirt

KingBrian2

VladamirP wrote: »

Just thought I'd throw it out there, I know it's almost a year away but what are yiz all planning for the centenary celebrations of the great Bolshevik Revolution ?


Have yiz any photo's of the 99th Bolshevik Revolution celebration yiz want to share?, post them here first.

I'll play the Soviet and Russian foreign anthems. Look at a few Lenin videos on Youtube maybe a documentary, know the period well enough. Look up the other luminarias of the revolution familiar with Trotsky, Zinoviev & Kamenev. Interesting characters. So important to contemporary world.