Post by cato on Dec 29, 2018 12:56:14 GMT
Between reading John Water's new book and eating and drinking to excess I have been watching a Russian language biopic series on Leon Trotsky on Netflix.
He is a figure I am going to read up on more as he was a key thinker and actor in the global revolution of 1917. He is an important influence among our far left today who are able to set a cultural/ideological agenda among a sympathetic media in Ireland.
Trotsky organised the deaths of more Russians through combat , executions and starvation than died in any previous war. He saved the revolution during the civil war by ruthless methods that included shooting every 10th man from retreating units and murdering family and friends of officers who joined the whites
In the series there is a terrible scene during the Red Terror where Trotsky's armoured train runs out of coal and they raid a graveyard to use the wooden crosses. It is a powerful symbol. They meet resistence from some mourners and shoot them all dead. The train pulls out of a desecrated cemetery littered with freshly executed men women and children. The series also depicts the widespread anti semitism in Russia that Trotsky was subject to.
Neo marxism and Trotsky is gaining in popularity among young people. This series should be shown on mainstream TV alongside the regular programmes on Hitler and Nazism to show how how one influenced the other and how totalitarian ideologies have a common love of death and unite to worship Moloch.
He is a figure I am going to read up on more as he was a key thinker and actor in the global revolution of 1917. He is an important influence among our far left today who are able to set a cultural/ideological agenda among a sympathetic media in Ireland.
Trotsky organised the deaths of more Russians through combat , executions and starvation than died in any previous war. He saved the revolution during the civil war by ruthless methods that included shooting every 10th man from retreating units and murdering family and friends of officers who joined the whites
In the series there is a terrible scene during the Red Terror where Trotsky's armoured train runs out of coal and they raid a graveyard to use the wooden crosses. It is a powerful symbol. They meet resistence from some mourners and shoot them all dead. The train pulls out of a desecrated cemetery littered with freshly executed men women and children. The series also depicts the widespread anti semitism in Russia that Trotsky was subject to.
Neo marxism and Trotsky is gaining in popularity among young people. This series should be shown on mainstream TV alongside the regular programmes on Hitler and Nazism to show how how one influenced the other and how totalitarian ideologies have a common love of death and unite to worship Moloch.
