Herman Bernstein Quotes

Lenin, Uritsky, and other Bolshevik leaders were attacked in 1918. Lenin was wounded but Utrtsky died, and this triggered the attacks on the other Russian factions by the Bolsheviks known as the “Red Terror.”

Commenting on political parties in Cuba:

While the intelligence apparatus of Great Britain and America completely missed the collapse of the Soviet Union, one man, Levin, clearly predicted it. This quotation is from that article.

This was one of the first of the world communist leaders who had concluded that the Russian communist state and its revolution had failed. Russia of 1923 was perceived as too dictatorial and not democratic enough. At the same time they thought Russia had not only sold out the democratic nature of communism but also the economic as well by having too much private property and making economic deals with Western capitalists giving concessions of all kinds to Krupp and other major Multinational companies to try and develop international trade and investment. Politically the communist critics thought Russian communism too left wing and undemocratic and economically too right wing and capitalistic.

While Lenin was admired for his skill by his revolutionary colleagues, many had their concerns.

She was one of the few Western journalists who was in Russia at the outbreak of the Russian Revolution.

Only 6 years after the Russian Revolution Lenin was already being perceived as an international provocateur and instigator of problems.

This was only 6 years after the Russian Revolution. Communist Russia had extended its influence to much of the world without firing a shot. To many, communism looked like the future. The Russian inability to make communism work economically in the next 70 years destroyed most of its influence.

According to Palmer, all labor strikes were a part of the international communist movement to take over America. This quotation is an excellent example of the conflation and the strange logic of the extreme anti-communists of the red scare. It started with a railroad strike. Because some of the strike leaders were socialists and some communists, the strike was communist. And if it was communist, the strike is but one step in capturing the political and economic power of the nation, and the purpose of that was to overthrow the government and substitute the governmental structure of Russia. With such thinking no labor action could be seen as American and patriotic if there were any socialists or communists participating in the strike. Later in the McCarthy era, a strike would be a menace if any participant even had been a communist or was related to one or had friends who were communists or even if not but the Communists morally supported the strikers, then the strike was dangerous. The same thing for civil rights. The Communists loudly opposed racial segregation. Therefore any effort to end segregation was a danger to America and furthers the communist conspiracy. This “logic” can be seen well into the 1960’s by the Southern segregationist leaders.

Vladimir Lenin. One of the claimed benefits of Capital Punishment has always been the inhibition of others, but it turned out that it was never very effective at that. However, prevention was Lenin’s major objective so he ordered public hanging instead of shooting—the usual method of execution at the time. This infamous quotation started the new Russian government off on a horrible record of civil and human rights. The people hanged were not particularly guilty of any crime. They were just people who had gotten, or whose family was, rich under the Czar. The disregard for rule of law was most dramatically evidenced by this Lenin order. Needless to say, rich people the world over, saw a great threat to their lives from this new state wanting to export its philosophy.

After the 1917 Russian Revolution many of the Western Countries sent troops to Russia where they aided the Whites against the Reds. When the Red Bolsheviks prevailed, there were many attempts to diplomatically and economically undermine the Communist government. This caused a unity among different Russian factions. Sforza urged leaving them alone and letting the Bolsheviks fail by their own ideology. Most Western nations and the United States did not agree with him.