| | The October Revolution and the Bolsheviks owed a lot of their acts to the [[French Revolution]], and as such, they planned on a line of statues commemorating various figures from the French Revolution, called monumental propaganda, to put into context their struggle. However, for various reasons, only Georges Danton and Robespierre actually were raised as statues, and one of the statues of Robespierre was destroyed due to inferior construction bases. | | The October Revolution and the Bolsheviks owed a lot of their acts to the [[French Revolution]], and as such, they planned on a line of statues commemorating various figures from the French Revolution, called monumental propaganda, to put into context their struggle. However, for various reasons, only Georges Danton and Robespierre actually were raised as statues, and one of the statues of Robespierre was destroyed due to inferior construction bases. |
| − | Now, it would not be fair to say that the Russian Revolution was all Jewish, though no denying that left-wing [[Jews]] were a large force (with it not helping matters that a few religious Jews such as Rabbis Harry Waton and S. Wise<ref>The American Bulletin, May 5, 1935</ref> strongly implied that Marxism is fully in line with the precepts of Rabbinic Judaism.). Patriarch Nikon of the [[Russian Orthodox Church]] did reforms to correct canonical errors to get in line with the Greek Orthodox Church, and in response was the Old Believers schism, a group that keeps dividing like Protestants do. Many Russian saints including Seraphim of Sarov and John Kronstadt warned that if Enlightenment influence continues to take advantage of this, then there will be a godless revolution. In his novel Demons, Feodor Dostoevsky also foresaw atheist revolution. [[Francis Bacon]] warned that, "The causes of atheism are: divisions in religion, if they be many; for any one main division, addeth zeal to both sides; but many divisions introduce atheism."<ref>http://www.bartleby.com/3/1/16.html</ref> Alexander Solzhenitsyn once said that if it were not for the church schism of the 17th century, the revolution of 1917 would not have happened. Some modern historians believe that the writer was correct in the literal sense and that the Russian Old Believers played a significant role in the political cataclysms of the early 20th century.<ref>https://tsarnicholas.org/2019/03/04/how-old-believers-suffered-from-the-overthrow-of-nicholas-ii/</ref> In 1920, [[Winston Churchill]] wrote Zionism vs. Bolshevism in the Illustrated Sunday Herald,<ref>https://www.scribd.com/document/197927718/Churchill-Zionism-Versus-Bolshevism</ref><ref>https://www.scribd.com/document/401493182/Winston-Churchill-zionism-Versus-Bolshevism-Illustrated-Sunday-Herald-1920</ref> in which he talks about [[atheist]] [[Jews]] being the main force. The problem is that like many followers of [[Secular Judaism]], they never cared for Jewish interests and many Jews were victims as well. The Bolsheviks did attack synagogues just as much as they did churches. When asked to identify himself as Russian or Jewish, Trotsky said that he is neither.<ref>http://www.covenant.idc.ac.il/en/vol1/issue3/jews-communists-and-jewish-communists.html</ref> Most websites containing the transcript of Churchill's article are controlled by those engaging in [[Holocaust denial]] and therefore should be avoided.
| + | Patriarch Nikon of the [[Russian Orthodox Church]] did reforms to correct canonical errors to get in line with the Greek Orthodox Church, and in response was the Old Believers schism, a group that keeps dividing like Protestants do. Many Russian saints including Seraphim of Sarov and John Kronstadt warned that if Enlightenment influence continues to take advantage of this, then there will be a godless revolution. In his novel Demons, Feodor Dostoevsky also foresaw atheist revolution. [[Francis Bacon]] warned that, "The causes of atheism are: divisions in religion, if they be many; for any one main division, addeth zeal to both sides; but many divisions introduce atheism."<ref>http://www.bartleby.com/3/1/16.html</ref> Alexander Solzhenitsyn once said that if it were not for the church schism of the 17th century, the revolution of 1917 would not have happened. Some modern historians believe that the writer was correct in the literal sense and that the Russian Old Believers played a significant role in the political cataclysms of the early 20th century.<ref>https://tsarnicholas.org/2019/03/04/how-old-believers-suffered-from-the-overthrow-of-nicholas-ii/</ref> |
| | + | Now, it would not be fair to say that the Russian Revolution was all Jewish, though no denying that left-wing [[Jews]] were a large force (with it not helping matters that a few religious Jews such as Rabbis Harry Waton and S. Wise<ref>The American Bulletin, May 5, 1935</ref> strongly implied that Marxism is fully in line with the precepts of Rabbinic Judaism.). In 1920, [[Winston Churchill]] wrote Zionism vs. Bolshevism in the Illustrated Sunday Herald,<ref>https://www.scribd.com/document/197927718/Churchill-Zionism-Versus-Bolshevism</ref><ref>https://www.scribd.com/document/401493182/Winston-Churchill-zionism-Versus-Bolshevism-Illustrated-Sunday-Herald-1920</ref> in which he talks about [[atheist]] [[Jews]] being the main force. The problem is that like many followers of [[Secular Judaism]], they never cared for Jewish interests and many Jews were victims as well. The Bolsheviks did attack synagogues just as much as they did churches. When asked to identify himself as Russian or Jewish, Trotsky said that he is neither.<ref>http://www.covenant.idc.ac.il/en/vol1/issue3/jews-communists-and-jewish-communists.html</ref> Most websites containing the transcript of Churchill's article are controlled by those engaging in [[Holocaust denial]] and therefore should be avoided. |