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Why did communism in Poland fail? [180]
Another good question for you... if the Russians were nationalistic (as you claimed) then why did they eliminated their intellectual elites in millions during the Soviet era and by means of that made the Polish word "bydlo" so applicable to the nowadays Russian society?
Is this a good question? Simple answer it has. First, Russia was a tsar-dom, i.e. a kingdom. Riches were those generated by tsardom, were people who were close to tsar, were royal families, as it always happen in monarchies, still so if you look at the House of Lords, 800 lords in today United Kingdom. You see them elites today? I don't. Maybe, they were useful in the past, centuries ago, but, not anymore. So, they are not elites. In 1917 revolution, these riches/lords of tsardom monarchy were arrested, killed, eliminated, etc. They too were Russians and they were nationalists who were also collobrating with the religious institutions, churchs. Design of revolution might be done by someones else, to win against the tsardom, but, appliers were poor workers anyway who were mostly Russians of whom there were many nationalists who were seeing Tsar and his lords were not enough nationalists.. So, those more radical nationalists killed those tsars, lords, etc who were seen as less nationalists.. Later, millions killed during Soviets, happened especially starting with Stalin, were mostly folks from other nations such as Turkics, etc as Soviets were forcing their locations to cut their connections. This was acceptable by Soviet Russian nationalist center to eliminate the threats against Russian nationalist center. Since they were Muslims mostly, it was acceptable by the church in Russia which had started to collobrate with Russian nationalist center of Soviets and by Europe churches as well.
Anyway, Soviets were not socialists really, it became visible especially starting with early 1930s. However, as mentioned above, one important thing entered the human life, historical existing socialism in their lifes of ordinary people became official name, became a governing system first time in the human history and some applications such as free education and free health care were enjoyed by ordinary people. These were being given free in religious government systems too, but, they were not systemized, they were like donations which caused discrimination, abusements, exploits.
Russian center of Soviets who were nationalists collobrating with churches inside Russia underground and churches of Europe returned to old monarchy system with nationalism and religious characters starting late 1920s and early 1930s. Also, while monarchy Europe, todays Western Europe who were collobrating with Soviet Russia nationalists for their movements about other folks' movements (Turkics, etc) who were mostly muslims, the same monarchies kept their rope of Russians by their other hands and pulled down slowly, till 1980s. Russians fell in the same old trap of monarchies who have been using nationalism and religiousism efficiently. Maybe, these characters of monarchies aren't seen so visibly in Western Europe monarchies. Just look at Saudi Kingdom. Their core is a monarchy with feudal system. They play Arab nationalism card in their ordinary folks and relgiousism card to other folks. Their lifestyle inside the palace is like socialism, communism, free-living if you define socialism/capitalism as free-living which is not understood by a person, who is called capitalist, who works hard to make money to live..
Read Wroclaw boy's post in that who says there are luxury cars of bosses and there are many poor cars belonging employee. It is true, but, at least, those bosses are either among ordinary folks or they worked hard before. Before them, there are monarchy royals, lords, etc who live luxury life from beginning to end. And, those monarchy lords have weapon powers, gun powers, laws on their sides as army guys, politicans, religious institutions, etc do not like those riches of whom at least some of them worked hard to make their money. Since ordinary people face these company owners more in their daily lifes, they become allergic to these company bosses while they don't see the big monster, monarchies and their lords. Sure, many of company bosses too are on their sides of monarchies, but, there are some who are challenging against them. To see these, look at Israel and Saudi Kingdom. One of them working hard, made money and bought the land and keep working. The other is lazily sitting, playing mind games and collobrating with monarchies of other parts of the world. And, the result is; big majority of world ordinary people are anti-israil. I am not Israel lover either, but, the main problem isn't them, it is Saudi Kingdom, Britain Kingdom, etc etc with monarchy systems who see all others below them, who don't like anyone else other than themselves. When monarchy system in the world is abolished, progression toward socialist system will be much easier. When you do a difficult work, if your leg is pulled back by someone, it is not easy to do any work. Monarchy system is doing that. For what? For nothing else than to save their positions, wealth and easy life and it is hard for them to accept ordinary common people who they have seen low people for centuries..
