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Memoirs of a KornilovÂ’s Regiment Soldier (Excerpted) by Alexandr Trushnovitch The issue of marriage and sex The Bolsheviks declared as their ultimate goal a society without families. The man or woman who are married, could terminate it at any time. The procedure of creating a marriage entry in the registry office was identical to the interim trade agreement without mutual guarantees. And since, according to the Bolshevik slogan of those years everyone had to work, the question of compensation in a divorce was dropped. For a child who often stayed with the mother, the father had to pay child support...

On Monday, President Obama will preside over the grand reopening of his administration. It would be altogether fitting if he stepped to the microphone, looked down the mall, and let out a sigh... There's no indication that the president's clashes with House Republicans will end soon... The challenge for President Obama’s speech is the challenge of his second term: how to be great when the environment stinks...The president who came into office speaking in lofty terms about bipartisanship and cooperation can only cement his legacy if he destroys the GOP... How should the president proceed then, if he wants to...

Robert Service chronicles the West’s early failure to take action against Bolshevism. Spies and Commissars: The Early Years of the Russian Revolution, by Robert Service (PublicAffairs, 480 pp., $32.99) “Russia, my lords and gentlemen, is the decisive factor in the history of the world at the present time,” observed Britain’s then-Secretary of State for War Winston Churchill in 1919. In his new book, Spies and Commissars: The Early Years of the Russian Revolution, Oxford historian Robert Service shows that not only Churchill, but also most of the West, were aware of the emerging Soviet presence. For a crucial five years,...

I recently read the new biography of Trotsky by Oxford don Robert Service, published in 2009 by Pan Books. It is well-written and surprisingly interesting. The book does a great public service in describing the life of the actual Trotsky, whose previous “biographies” were little more than hagiographies written by his toady worshippers (people like Isaac Deutscher). The last time that I had taken any interest in Trotsky was when I was a teenager and had fleeting delusions of believing in “socialism.” Reading the new book as an adult and as an economist, I found it a useful opportunity to...

As regular readers in this column know, my reporting senior and lawful sovereign is His Imperial Majesty Kaiser Wilhelm II. When I finally report in to that great Oberste Heeresleitung in the sky, I expect to do so as the Kaiser’s last soldier. Why? Well, beyond Bestimmung, the unhappy fact is that Western civilization’s last chance of survival was probably a victory by the Central Powers in World War I. Their defeat let all the poisons of the French Revolution loose unchecked, which is the main reason that we now live in a moral and cultural cesspool.

... I was floored to see just how bad it was when I was researching Dupes, and, specifically, digging into the Soviet Comintern Archives on Communist Party USA, where TNR frequents the files.... here are just a few examples from those opening decades, smack in the middle of Lenin’s and Stalin’s unholy rampage: From the outset, TNR peddled gibberish on Bolshevism.... it's no surprise that numerous TNR editors, regulars, and contributors did pilgrimage to the Soviet Motherland, where they were paraded from Potemkin village to Potemkin village by master manipulators. From the likes of Lincoln Steffens to John Dewey, they...

I can't begin to explain how hard I laughed watching this kid. What is he, some unemployed weirdo making videos in his mommy's basement? Take into consideration he admires one of the worst mass-murderers of the 20th century. Let's watch and have a laugh.

I'm reading Aaron Klein and Brenda Elliott's newly released book "The Manchurian President" in preparation for Thursday night's interview, and it is a scorcher. It takes the authors 271 pages (not including another 54 pages of footnotes) to tie together a plethora of people and organizations that evolved out of the radical '60's to form the movement that produced the communist Barack Obama. Who now occupies the White House. (Victoria Jackson's song "There's a Communist living in the White House" comes to mind...) Be warned -- if you're reading The Manchurian President, you'll need a pen and notepad beside you...

Joe Biden's weekend statement that the administration misread how bad the economy really was, had been celebrated as just another gaffe by Obama's "Minister of LOL." Fact is that it was not another screw-up by Joe six-pack, it was part of a clearly orchestrated campaign by the Obama administration to make an excuse for the failure of the President's economic policy of high taxes, government control of major industry, and over spending. The basic contention of the administration is that the estimates were made before they knew the economy was contracting at a annual rate of 6%. Not only were...

I wrote recently about the hostility that the Nazis had for Christians and wrote again about Christian opposition to Nazism. My point was to demonstrate that people of the Judeo-Christian faith are fundamentally different from people outside the Judeo-Christian faith. It was important to demonstrate that the supposed Christian influence on the rise of Nazism was not just a myth, but a conscious rewriting of history by those who hate Christians. The same is true about the rise of Bolshevism. It has become an article of faith for some people who hate the Judeo-Christian faith to accuse Jews of causing...

Barbarians at the Gates!A Parable for Our TimesCivilizations rise, and civilizations fall.They rise when all of the varied forces, actions, and influences which move a culture toward a more civilized state are more powerful than those forces, actions, and influences move a culture away from that more civilized state. When that balance changes to favor the “anti-civilization” forces, that civilization will begin to fall.The Myths of The Magic Latinos1MYTH 1: They are NOT “illegals.” Part 2 (to read part 1, go here):http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1841785/posts The reason, the cause, of Latino illegal immigration; and why the way we deal with it (this time)...

Russia is grievously sick. This sickness has as its material symptoms the disintegration of our state and social organism. But at its core -- this is a spiritual, and not physical sickness. The visibly material roots of the societal life of the people lie are hidden in the invisible depths. These depths always involve the spiritual life. Russia cannot be healed by material means alone. Not only the body, but also the soul is sick. Russia's restoration to health presupposes first of all the healing of the spiritual foundations of life for the Russian people and the guiding circles of...

The catastrophe, termed the Russian Revolution, through all the degradations, tribulations and disappointments, has to lead to a new and better awareness. Such an experience in the life of a people cannot but enrich and sharpen our perceptiveness. But a crisis of soul will have to precede this perceptiveness with a readiness for repentance and humility. The light will be begotten after an inward cleansing and ascesis. This -- is a law of spiritual life. And it is needful to be aware, that all the whole thinking portion of Russian society, that which has esteemed itself as the bearer knowingly...

Faina Yefimovna Kaplan (1883–September 3, 1918), a.k.a. Fanny Kaplan (born Dora Kaplan), was a political revolutionary and an attempted assassin of Vladimir Lenin. Kaplan was born into a Jewish peasant family, one of seven children. She became a political revolutionary at an early age and joined a socialist group, the Socialist Revolutionaries. In 1906, Kaplan participated in an attempted assassination of a government official. The plot failed and Kaplan was arrested and sentenced to life of katorga works in Akatui, Siberia. She was released when the February Revolution overthrew the imperial government. As a result of her imprisonment, Kaplan suffered...

Persecution and martyrdom of Christians under 20th century totalitarianism - mainly of Russian Orthodox Christians under Bolshevism - is by far the greatest crime in all of recorded history. It is several times greater than the Holocaust in terms of innocent lives brutally destroyed. It has killed more Christians in a few decades than all other causes put together in all ages, with Islam a distant second as the cause of their death and suffering. And yet it still remains a largely unknown, often minimized, or scandalously glossed over crime. According to the respected and reliable OUP World Christian...

A mammoth statue of Vladimir Lenin is to be rescued from its woodland resting place and reinstated in Berlin. The 62ft monument once loomed over Lenin Square, now United Nations Square, in East Berlin but was dragged off its pedestal under tight police guard 14 years ago. It was then cut into 125 pieces and buried in woods on the edge of the city. But so-called "ostalgie" hunters, those wistful for the communist era, recently discovered its secret grave and have been chiselling bits from its red granite surface as souvenirs. Attempts to protect the statue by covering it in...

In this edition of the DUmmie FUnnies the DUmmies can’t figure out why people aren’t rioting in the streets over vote fraud. Uhh….Maybe it might have to do with total lack of evidence of vote fraud. However, that minor technicality doesn’t stop the DUmmies from hoping for the coming Revolution as you can see in this THREAD titled, “When and how does the Revolution start?” As usual, the DUmmie yearnings for a Revolution are in Bolshevik Red while the comments of humble counter-revolutionary correspondent are in the [brackets]: When and how does the Revolution start? I'm going for a bike...

JOHN KERRY'S RELIGION September 28, 2004 by Joe Sobran In his convention acceptance speech, John Kerry made a brief, vague reference to his "faith" and skipped over the subject even more quickly than he did his political career. A few months ago, it appeared that Kerry might have trouble with some Catholic bishops if he tried to take Communion, because of his consistent advocacy of abortion. But Kerry and his defenders insisted that he was a Catholic in good standing, and the issue faded away. Still, there were unanswered questions about how seriously Kerry took his Catholicism. Had he...

Zimbabwe shuts down 'racist' private schools By Peta Thornycroft in Harare (Filed: 05/05/2004) Zimbabwe's government closed the country's 46 private schools yesterday and sent children away at the start of the new term, arguing that the fees were too high. Aeneas Chigwedere, the education minister, accused the schools of being "racist" institutions which raised their fees to keep out blacks. School's out: pupils from St George's College await a lift home However, the overwhelming majority of children at 45 private schools are black. All but one or two private schools are run as not-for-profit trusts. "We are dealing with racist...

What is American Corporatism? By Robert Locke FrontPageMagazine.com | September 13, 2002 We are probably heading into some economic heavy weather which will spur needed debate on what's right and wrong with our economy. This will require our being clear about what kind of economy we really have. I have mentioned before that we increasingly live not in a capitalist society but in a corporatist one, and I would like to flesh out this notion. What is corporatism? In a (somewhat inaccurate) phrase, socialism for the bourgeois. It has the outward form of capitalism in that it preserves private ownership...