2/
The newly formed Stalin’s “Red Army” retreats, allowing the capture of cities Narva and Pskov and being thrown back to Saint-Petersburg (Leningrad). A detachment of Baltic sailors lead by Pavel Dybenko steal a German train and drive in deep into Russia, stopping only in Samara, effectively fleeing the frontlines.
A courier delivers a dispatch to Russians on the 23rd, containing an ultimatum. The Brest peace treaty is signed on conditions dictated by the Germans.
@Vonzales Honest question: Is anything in Russian culture not based on a lie or cultural appropriation or similar? What is honest or good?
@danielbsmith
As I go back in time I'm struggling to find examples of positive influences.
They installed a Communist regime in Romania and plunged it into unspeakable poverty.
They installed a Communist regime in Korea and plunged the North into unspeakable poverty.
They installed a Communist regime in Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia and sentenced those peoples to degradation for decades.
They upheld Castro's commie regime and plunged Cuba into poverty.
But they describe all these as positives.
3/
Years later, in 1938 Stalin orders the following redaction to be introduced in historical archives: “Our soldiers have categorically repelled the enemy’s attempts at capturing Narva and Pskov. The 23rd of February became the birth date of the Glorious Red Army which dealt a humiliating defeat to the German imperialists.”
This is the holiday that’s revered across #Russia to this day. They are celebrating an historical lie, an perverted, farcical falsification, manufactured by Stalinists.