Russia-a wealthy country with a highly educated population, a country that had peacefully gotten rid of serfdom and was on a path of rapid, successful industrial development-was handed over to the Bolsheviks without a real struggle. The Russian intelligentsia, the nation’s brain, underestimated the danger and allowed a great country which had been drawn into the global slaughterhouse of World War I to descend into complete anarchy and lawlessness-until power was seized by a group of ignorant, brutal, greedy people using the Marxian idea as a cover. It’s hard to say how sincere the Bolsheviks were about building a utopia of universal equality, and whether they had the faintest idea of what it meant.”
Vladimir Rott, “In Defiance of Fate Book 1 Joy From Sadness”, 2009.
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