Good Lenin, Bad Stalin.
Really ???
Good Socialism, Bad Communism.
Really ??
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The Red Terror in Soviet Russia

( The term "Red Terror" came from the French Revolution and a bloody period, in 1793, known as the "Reign of Terror".
This period was referred to by none other than Karl Marx himself ,years earlier, in a letter to his buddy Fredrick Engels !
Marx wrote:
"Once we are at the helm, we shall be obliged to reenact the year 1793.”)
(Gotta love that peaceful Marx guy !)

To overcome our enemies we must have our own Socialist militarism. We must carry along with us 90 million out of the 100 million of Soviet Russia's population. As for the rest, we have nothing to say to them. They must be annihilated.
—Grigory Zinoviev, 1918

(Socialist militarism?, how nice!)

(Yep, sure seems different than Communism)
NOT !!!!
(All Communists refer to themselves, first and last, as Socialists)

Here’s the story:

In August 1918, Fanni Kaplin tried to kill Vladimir Lenin.
He failed.
This failed assassination attempt was used as a rationale for the secret police (Cheka) to round up and deal with anyone suspected of counter-revolutionary activities.
From his hospital bed Lenin himself instructed the Cheka to:
“Prepare for Terror”.

(The Cheka was created by Lenin just six weeks after the coup of October 1917 )

Felix Dzerzhinsky was the head of the Cheka. The Cheka had total control.
They answered to no agency and were guilty of nothing.
Dzerzhinsky could simply explain away anything, no matter how ruthless, with no fear of repercussions.

For example:
The arrest and execution of 800 people in St. Petersburg in 1918 was explained away as ‘enemies of the revolution’.
None of the 800 was put on trial.
They were arrested and then shot.

Dzerzhinsky himself said that the Cheka operated on a 24 hour basis.

The Cheka had the total support of Lenin and were given free rein in Russia.
With their Socialist outlook, a persons occupation or even the size of their house could be enough to label them a “suspect” or enemy of the Communist government.

Gregory Zinoviev said that the enemies of the Communist government should be “annihilated”.
Lenin himself wrote to Dzerzhinsky that the opponents of the Communists should be made “to tremble”.

And tremble they would:

“There were numerous reports that Cheka interrogators utilized torture methods which were, according to Orlando Figes, "matched only by the Spanish Inquisition."
At Odessa the Cheka tied White officers to planks and slowly fed them into furnaces or tanks of boiling water;
In Kharkiv, scalpings and hand-flayings were commonplace: the skin was peeled off victims' hands to produce "gloves";
The Voronezh Cheka rolled naked people around in barrels studded internally with nails; victims were crucified or stoned to death at Dnipropetrovsk;
The Cheka at Kremenchuk impaled members of the clergy and buried alive rebelling peasants;
In Orel, water was poured on naked prisoners bound in the winter streets until they became living ice statues;
In Kiev, Cheka detachments placed rats in iron tubes sealed at one end with wire netting and the other placed against the body of a prisoner, with the tubes being heated until the rats gnawed through the victim's body in an effort to escape.
Executions took place in prison cellars or courtyards, or occasionally on the outskirts of town…
-Wikipedia,

In every city they entered, the Lenin’s Communists committed atrocity after atrocity.
In Crimea for example:
"corpses with hands cut off, broken bones, heads ripped off, broken jaws, and genital removed."
- The Black Book of Communism

The Red Terror also resulted in the execution of thousands of men classified as “bandits”. The term never had a legal definition and it became a one-word fits all term to explain the arrest and execution of mere “suspects.”
In turn, entire families would suffer from just one family member becoming a “suspect“.

Dzerzhinsky explained in July 1918: "We stand for organized terror”

With the evidence currently available it becomes difficult to deny that Lenin was, not an idealist, but a mass murderer, a man who believed that the best way to solve problems—no matter whether real or imaginary—was to kill off the people who caused them.
-Richard Pipes

Lenin's, so-called, "Hanging Order" came on one telegram (dated 11 August 1918)
It read:

"Comrades!
The insurrection of five Kulak districts should be pitilessly suppressed. The interests of the whole revolution require this because 'the last decisive battle' with the Kulaks (landowners) is now under way everywhere.
An example must be demonstrated.
1. Hang (and make sure that the hanging takes place in full view of the people) no fewer than one hundred known landlords, rich men, bloodsuckers.
2. Publish their names.
3. Seize all their grain from them.
4. Designate hostages in accordance with yesterday's telegram.
This needs to be accomplished in such a way, that people for hundreds of miles around will see, tremble, know and scream out:
let's choke and strangle those blood-sucking Kulaks.
Telegraph us acknowledging receipt and execution of this.
Yours, Lenin
P.S. Use your toughest people for this.”

(Lenin really went after the “Kulaks”
From 1921 to 1922,
an estimated 5 million innocent citizens died of starvation.)

The beast has licked hot human blood. The man-killing machine is brought into motion
-Julius Martov

Socialism and Communism on parade !

Red Terror lasted from September 1918 to October 1918 although I believe that it actually lasted until the end of the October 1922.

Here’s a video about the “Good” Lenin and the Red Terror:
I’m sure this real history is not being taught.
Take a look ! It’s not good.
http://youtu.be/bEzejRkT78A
As I write this , it occurs to me that all these stories have so much in common.
From Pol Pot , Mao, Hitler, Mengistu Haile Mariam, Kim il Sung, Kim Jong il, Stalin or Castro .
So many things are the same.
That’s because the ideology is flawed.
It is dangerous and a threat to human life.

Good Lenin, Bad Stalin?
Good Socialism, Bad Communism?

Just a smoke screen to hide the deaths of over 180,000,000 innocent people.

“Know the History”