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"The same night two prominent Kadet leaders, Professor F. Kokoshkin, and Dr. A. Shingarev, were murdered in a hospital by a group of Bolshevik sailors. When Len
by unimpressive 13y ago
"The same night two prominent Kadet leaders, Professor F. Kokoshkin, and Dr. A. Shingarev, were murdered in a hospital by a group of Bolshevik sailors. When Lenin heard of the ensuing protest meetings held by the Social Revolutionaries and the Mensheviks, he said cynically: 'Let them protest, let them bubble over with rage, let them rave some, sigh some, drink a lot of tea and talk until dawn; then they will surely soon fall asleep.'" - A history of Soviet Russia, George Von Rauch, Fifth Revised Edition, 1967
I can't help but think of that every time I read one of these threads. Especially when people ask for things like the dismissal of the prosecutors, in complete disregard that this agenda comes straight from the White House.
- mcantelon 13y agoYup. Since 9/11 the US state has been working hard to consolidate its domestic power, creating a domestic counter-insurgence force (the DHS) to circumvent the Posse Comitatus Act and a command-structure for military action within the continent (NORTHCOM), among many other complementary developments. Wherever the agenda originated, both political parties are following it and the power consolidation is unlikely to stop until completion barring some disruptive influence.