Scenes from the early USSR: Memoirs of a Kornilov’s Regiment Soldier

Memoirs of a Kornilov’s Regiment Soldier. Moscow-Frankfurt. Posev. 2004 | 2004 | Alexandr Trushnovitch

[annalex]

Воспоминания корниловца: 1914-1934

The author commanded a machine gun company of Kornilov Regiment; lived in the Soviet Russian under an assumed name, became a doctor and practiced medicine. In 1934 managed to emigrate as an ethnic Slovene and lived in Germany (Western). Was abducted by the agents of the Soviet Union in 1954, resisted the abduction and was killed ( Трушнович, Александр Рудольфович).

I should point out to the gentle American reader that the image of the Soviet Union as a stern society of oppressive sexual conservatism, as opposed to American and generally Western sexual liberalism is an artifact of the Cold War. The classical Marxism, as well as the early years of the Soviet Power called for liberation of the woman, -- understood as stripping her of marital obligations, and nearly unlimited access to abortion. Coupled with collectivization of farming and forced industrialization, the uninhibited sexual practices and collectivization of women as sexual partners of the working men resulted in death and misery in what was once a prosperous nation. With this in mind, here is the question for the American reader: Does this remind you of anything?

[annalex]

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[blueunicorn6]

If you can convince a woman to kill her own child, then you can convince her to do anything.

[Excellence]

collectivization of women as sexual partners of the working men

Now that is one damned interesting turn of phrase.

[Chode]

collective comfort women...

[gusopol3]

Thanks a lot for this. I was just reading a synopsis of Animal Farm after reading the original many years ago, and this looks like the Communism George Orwell knew. Russia's emergence as the holdout in the amorality of current trends, as well as the emergence of a vibrant Christianity in China after Maoism , makes you wonder whether the best example for changing human behavior( i. e. back to traditional morals) is a really bad example.

[annalex]

If you can convince a woman to kill her own child, then you can convince her to do anything

Well said, and very true.

[annalex]

Orwell knew Spanish communists, and British, but he got the mentality right generally, I think. Interesting that he himself remained socialist, if I am not mistaken.

[annalex]

Describes the reality well, though. I have come across posters decreeing that able bodied women were to report to one committee or another so that they can service the comrades. Fascinating stuff, but most of it is in Russian and my ability to translate and bring it to the freeping audience is limited.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Let me dwell on the numbers that I have, since true statistics did not exist under the Bolsheviks. The figures that lead to the delight of naive intellectuals and politicians in the West are falsehoods serving propaganda needs, or are created to fit the speeches of the leaders who mention fake numbers. Reading these data, we said, "They will be laughing at that in the West! Our pundits apparently believe that they are all fools." Unfortunately, we were wrong, and the winners came out "our pundits." In the West, very many believed the communist lies.

All the statistics the Soviets produced were known to be lies. All the statistics out of Hussein's regime are lies, too -- the latest revelation being the unemployment numbers ginned up by the Census Bureaus before the Nov 2012 election. It's no coincidence there's a communist at the helm.

[PUGACHEV]

I am reading Marooned In Moscow, by Marguerite Harrison, an adventurous woman who slipped uninvited into Russia across the Polish frontier in 1920 and set up shop as a correspondent for the Associated Press in Moscow. As it turned out, she was on the payroll of the U.S. military intelligence. She met Lenin, Krupsksya, Trotsky, and many other notable Bolsheviks, as well as workers, peasants, and members of the old regime. She was a very careful observer, and her book is full of insights and things that I had never read before about that period.

You can buy it from Amazon for your Kindle, or read the free version above.

[OldNewYork]

These are the real, inconvenient truths the crypto-communists in political offices, NGO’s, and media positions would like to ignore. But we can’t.

[narses]

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[Bigg Red]

Thanks for the ping. I recall another installment of this that you pinged me to recently. Scary stuff.

[annalex]

Yes. Lying is in the nature of the left everywhere. This is how they maintain power. This is why the greatest betrayal of the American people is not even by the politicians but by the American press.

[annalex]

Thank you; interesting.

Another view on the USSR is Solonevich’s Concentration Camp Russia, only in part available in an old English translation. I wish someone who can read Russian would undertake to translate it; I could help with the difficult parts, but I have no time translating it myself. It is a story of Solonevich’s arrest, trial and escape from a prison camp.

[cunning_fish]

Ping!

[No One Special]

Thank you Annalex for providing important history that needs knowing by everyone. If that were the case, doubtful we today would have Obamacare.

[annalex]

If that guy has his way, we would have far worse than Obamacare.

[annalex]

Yes. I may be repeating myself, but for natural and man-made reasons America’s view on the USSR is colored by the experience of the Cold War and the sexual revolution at home. But the USSR of the post-WWII period was very different than the USSR as originally shaped by the Bolsheviks. Few, for example, know that collectivization of women as group wives was a reality. Yet if we are to learn from history, we should draw a parallel between the early USSR and today’s America, and especially, find similarities in the attitude toward religion and family.