After the Finnish Red Guards lost the civil war (≈5.7k deaths) , the whites executed around 20k of them, sent them to prison camps (≈12.5k deaths), then began the persecution of the alive red guards, where they were usually dragged to cars forcibly, driven to the Eastern border, beat up, forced to give up all political activity and usually told to go "back" to Soviet Russia. The numbers may not seem that high, but it was high compared to the population of Finland at the time.
Commieball To be clear only a few hundred people were driven to the eastern border, most of these transportstion happened in the late 20's to early 30's and were carried out by fascist organisations like Lapuan Liike an their members. Very few people actually were killed as a result, yet the transportstions have become wuite infamous
*Little known fact:* In April of 1917 comrade Lenin traveled through Sweden on his way back to Russia. Two weeks later a major demonstration occurred outside of the Swedish Parliament where workers, women and others demanded 1. Democracy, 2. Better working conditions, 3. Food. At the rally two major members of the Swedish Social Democratic Labour Party held speeches. By one point at these speeches the Swedish commander of the police Tamm arrived and stepped up on the stairs between the workers and the Parliament door and was just about to order riding police (that had gathered around the workers) to force a break up of the demonstration (using swords). He was stopped just before he could give the signal by the local captain of the police. Most historians today agrees that had this not been the case, and had Tamm ordered his troops to break up the demonstrations it is very likely that Sweden would have a revolution and civil war starting on the 27th of April, 1917. Before the Russian and Finnish revolutions. All that prevented this was one man. Most historians also think that the civil war would end in a stalemate or loss for the Reds like in Finland due to German support.
And about the Alsatian, the Bremen Soviet Republic about the Council Limerick in Ireland. And on the brink of revolution was still Italy, Belgium, Bulgaria...
This is awesome. I'm glad to see you included the Hungarian Soviet Republic. The workers of Hungary showed more virtue in 133 days of 1919 than ever since the 1848 uprising. We've been slaves for so long - to the Austrians, to Horthy and his walking anachronisms, to the nazis, and now to a tinpot dictator who turns everything he touches to shit. (And the Warsaw Pact era wasn't anything to write home about, either.) It's heartwarming to know that there was a short period of time in our history when the proletariat fought earnestly for their own interests.
Ahreta yeh i really support that but capitalist made a dumb patriot history. i meant the failed hungarian revolution is consider as hungary national day???
Long live the Internationale! Long live Revolution! The working class faces a choice: either socialism or barbarism will be the ruling order. Proletarians of all countries, unite! ☭
You should paint red Poland too. We had workers councils an even red guards but revisionists from PPS destroy it and after that, they gived power to the bourgeoisie.
@@abandonedchannel281 Also, fake Socialism and fake Communism don't exist. Fascists admit Mosley was a Fascist. Nazis admit Strasser was a Nazi. Anarchists admit Makhno, Bresci, Rothbard and Southgate were Anarchists. Socialists should admit that PPS WERE Socialists, just anti Communist. The REAL SOCIALISM. And Communists should admit Khrushchev and Gorbachev were Communist, just pro-Western. In that case, you're no better than Nazi-Fascists and Anarchists.
1919 was also the year of the "Biennio rosso" in Italy, a lot of fabric especially in the north since the south was still unindustrialized were occupied by communist.
In Czechia was revolution about 1919, it was about coal city Kladno. ( Our communist president Antonín Zápotocký wrote book about this revolution called "Rudá záře nad Kladnem") Stupid capitalists, imperialists and fascists defeat proletariat there, but no for long time!
@@knightofliberty9297 Fascism is a pretty vague term in Marxism, describing far-right movements that utilize nationalist feelings and brute force to suppress the workers' movements.
Was socialism in Bavarian soviet republic the same as in GDR? For example Rosa Luxemburg is on GDR stamp,do you think,that if Rosa survived attack by freikorps,and fascist regime from year 1933 to 1945,do you think,that if Rosa lived in GDR, would she agree with policy of GDR? Just a historical question. Thank you, Danke! СПАСИБА! köszönöm!
Well, there is never only black and white. She stood up for revolution, for the class struggle, for the proletarians. For sure, she would have supported the GDR. But she she would have demanded the including of the workers in the law making bodies and in the governmental and democratic process. She wanted true socialism, made by the people and for the people.
Given that she opposed Lenin's views on a number of topics mostly related to the central role of the vanguard party in the State (she thought a revolution led by a vanguard would invariably transform into a dictatorship over the masses, not a people-run State), I highly doubt 1919's Rosa Luxemburg would've supported the GDR (which was a dictatorship following the model of the USSR). Then again, maybe she would've changed her opinions like a lot of other communists at the time, who perceived the soviet-style dictatorships as a safeguard against the US. Also, we can't compare GDR and Bavarian SR. The former was a well-established dictatorial state with stable institutions, a fixed state-capitalist economy, run by a single party ; while the Bavarian SR was a revolutionary state with many concurrent powers (a somewhat central government and many self-run councils of workers and soldiers) in constant turmoil that didn't manage to stabilize itself before its disappearance.
If the council movement (German:Rätebebewung, Russian:Soviets) had been successful in Austria, the missing link between the Bavarian and the Hungarian socialist council republics, the revolution would have swept through Berlin, Braunschweig, Hamburg, Ruhrgebiet and later all of Germany. That would have been the end of international capitalist rule and all Imperialism, exploitation and oppression of anyone bug the oppressors. No great depression, no financial crisis, no Fascism in Italy, no Nazi party, no second world war. Just the people getting liberated, the end of hunger, abundance for all. But the Social Democrats in Austria had to sell out, but keep up the revolutionary rethoric. Talking like communists but acting like capitalists. And the workers bought their very sofisticated con and led the SP leadership slowly but effectively take down the Austrian council movement and with it the socialist revolution. Same thing happened in Germany just a year earlier. The Austrian and German workers should have known when their parties sold out to capitalist interests and sent them into a senseless, profit driven, imperialist war to be slaughtered in as pawns for the ruling class. And what did the SocDem leadership get for their betrayel? Exile and concentration camps not even 15 years later. And workers, SocDem and communist alike in either concentration camps or in the next senseless war in the interests of the capitalist ruling class. The only party not to sell out to the capitalists in WW1 were the Bolsheviki. And the only leaders not to sell out were Lenin, Stalin, Rosa Luxemburg, Karl Liebknecht,Clara Zetkin, Franz Mehring, Wilhelm Pieck, Gramsci, Friedrich Adler and some others. Lenin, Liebknecht and Luxemburg always had the correct line and should have lead the international socialist movement together. Lenin lead a successful revolution and defended it. At least Wilhelm Pieck got to lead a socialist state on German soil, because of the good work of Lenins successor
i love how russia, finland and hungary did good or atleast decent versions of the internationale and then theres bavaria that absolutely butchered the chord progression and didnt score well on the vocals either
@@nottherealpaulsmith the internationale is not communist/socialist anthem, its the anthem of the united left (communist, socialist, anarchist, social democrat, etc)
Real ones know, what is usually known as the anthem of the USSR is the anthem of Stalinism whereas the Internationale is the anthem of Leninism, genuine Marxism and world revolution. And for that reason, I find it all the more beautiful.
Never call yourself "anti-fascist" or "anti communist" if you want to be in center. Because anti-fascist means that you are communist and anti communist means that you are a nationalist.
