I am aware, the respected Mayor of Moscow Sergei Sobyanin, is in support of the initiative proposed by YABLOKO in regards to renaming the
station of Zamoskvoretskaya line of the metro.
In fact, I am of the understanding the Mayor's office put out a press
release stating YABLOKO's position will be upheld.
Glorifying the Tsar's government which others
may argue was as oppressive as the soviet regime does nothing to heal wounds,
extremism whether it be the totalitarian state of the Romanov's or the
totalitarian state of Lenin and Stalin will always fail, the great honor of the
soul that is Russian, albeit a patient one will rise in the vanguard as hosts
of all that is good including the inalienable right of freedom
I write to voice my disappointment with the decision and
only wished I could have contacted the Mayor's office prior to its decision and
press release.
With all due deference, Russia's history does not always
provide a lucid account of actual events.
As Napoleon Bonaparte stated, "History is the version
of past events that people have decided to agree upon."
To acquire the capacity for consciously making sense of the
Revolutions of 1917...one should be required to objectively study the Romanov's
rule and its governments treatment of the Russian citizenry.
A fair historian would acknowledge revolution is nothing
more than the peoples tolerance of its government bent beyond repair.
Please allow me to demonstrate how Napoleon's quote is
applicable to Pavel Dybenko, the Soviets definition and history of Dybenko, and
the contemporary definition and history of Dybenko.
First we will take a look at how the Soviets have defined
Dybenko...a drunk, coward, a loose cannon...these are the words Lenin's
government used to describe Dybenko...in fact Dybenko's trial in May of 1918
was a result of disagreements between Dybenko and Lenin during this time. The history of February 23rd is nothing more
than Lenin's plan to disparage and discredit Dybenko...successfully removing
Dybenko from having any influence in government. Lenin advocated for what many regarded as
opportunistic vanguard-ism; the idea that the radical intelligentsia were going to
exploit popular movements to seize state power and then to use the state power
to persuade the population into the society that they chose.
Lenin and Trotsky promoted the idea of total
subordination. Trotsky maintained, “What
you need is a Labor Army which is submissive to the control of a single
leader. Modern progress and development
requires the mass of the population to subordinate themselves to a single
leader in a disciplined workforce.”
The popular movement Lenin was referring to would culminate
in Great October...its fruits destroyed by Lenin and his totalitarian ideals would rule over the Soviet Union...Was Dybenko opposed to this
society...definitely...in order to be a "good" Russian was he
supposed to die?
During the Civil War...Dybenko still not trusted by Lenin's
Communist Party was overseen by a Political Commissar by the name of Alexander
Sedyakin...Dybenko's every move monitored and controlled.
Many years later published in a newspaper article in December 1937,
Dybenko called out the current state of the Russian union and for that finally
got what the Soviet politicos have wanted all along...a shot to the back of
the head and burial in a mass grave at Butovo.
On the other hand...contemporary definitions of
Dybenko...held by the church and YABLOKO...is, he was an executioner.
To be discredited and disparaged by both sets of political
theorists creates causes for pause.
While it is true, Dybenko participated in the events of revolution...led the Navy in becoming the "armed fist" to promote
social change...his actions clearly intended to do away with the totalitarian
state of the Romanov's...
Conversely, Dybenko's actions were never intended to help
create the totalitarian state of Lenin, Stalin et al.
To fight for freedom...then have one's actions defined by
the authorities (soviet government) as being supportive of its policies were
nothing more than propaganda...
Then for Dybenko to be described as an executioner by
current political theorists is a vain attempt to place blame on Dybenko as the
keeper of the Soviet system.
It is a fact that many Russian citizens know little of
Dybenko...he was written out of most history books pertaining to the
revolution...all credit was given to Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin and their cohorts.
Dybenko was nothing less than a man who sought freedoms for
his fellow Russians...ending up a man without a country...to disparage Dybenko
may be easily done but his memory exists because of his actions not despite of
them.
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