Indeed,
Dybenko
was in Narva
By
the way have you ever considered why it is that historians don’t mention the
names of the Commanders who retreated from Pskov?...Reval?...or how about the
name of the commander who retreated from Riga in September of 1917?
Why
do you suppose Dybenko’s retreat is highlighted?
As
for Narva in the simplest of terms…
On two consecutive days in
Febrary/March of 1918 Dybenko fought two battles with the Germans…with over 500
dead and wounded combined with the threat of being overturned from the rear…he
ordered a retreat…
Indeed,
Dybenko
was in Samara
Two
months later!...Dybenko goes to Samara because there existed a large base of
oppositionists to those in power.
As
for the claim definitions of individuals’ changes as the political winds do…I
agree completely.
There
is no Shame
Dybenko’s
legacy in Russian History includes his ascension to the leadership of the
sailors who symbolized the vanguard in the fight against the then oppressive
authoritative government.
It
was well known and documented throughout the Russian land that the sailors were
the hope of the people:
…the Russian people found if you could
not pierce an idea with the bayonet, neither can you resist the bayonet with
ideas only.
Pavel
Dybenko was the face of the sailor's longstanding battle with the authorities...rebellions...uprising every year since before the year 1905. Contemporary History does not take account for the sailors revolt and rebellion in the year 1912. An attempt to force the Tsar into a representative government and one which would include the Monarchy. It was understood by military observers that without said longstanding pressures...the Revolutions in February, March and October would be impossible.
The
sheer number of individuals, (corroborated via film and photo documentation),
who took to the streets throughout the year of 1917 is a visual reminder that
compromises were needed.
Despite the fact Tsentrobalt, Pavel Dybenko, and the sailors had bowed to the authority of each of
the first four Provisional Governments…not one representative reached out to
Tsentrobalt each version maintained the need for
subordination and control over the fleet conflicting with the accomplishments
which the sailors had fought for and maintained they held.
On
the contrary, the “Bolshevik” leaders send many of its representatives to
Helsingfors,
Raskolnikov,
Izmailov, Anton-Ovseenko,
Lenin, Podvoiskii, and other Bolsheviki leaders also send in the temptress, seductress, Alexsandra Kollontai. All came calling on Dybenko…
While
Dybenko was imprisoned in July he is inundated with the platform most Russians
thought the Bolsheviks stood for…
The
raconteur’s espoused concepts of capital benefiting the working class instead
of the bourgeoisie
The
luminaries included:
Trotsky,
Lunacharsky, Kamenev, Proshian, Roshal, Raskolinikov, and Anton-Ovseenko
To
say that Dybenko was hoodwinked is an understatement…but so too were the
millions who demanded compromise…the peoples interest to be taken in
consideration.
G.P.
Maximoff and Noam Chomsky both intellectuals wrote that Lenin had perpetuated
the biggest fraud against the Russian people…that the first acts of his
government were to do away with the soviets…Tsentrobalt was a soviet…why
wouldn’t or couldn’t Dybenko suffer the same fate?
It
is important and it does matter that Dybenko’s tale come to the forefront. For if it is true that:
An autocratic and bureaucratic
superstructure rests on the armed force of the government…
Then, an armed force is needed to enact
change
Pavel
Yefimovich Dybenko…a peasant’s son from Novozybkov, led the force necessary to
enact change.
Notwithstanding
the history of the politicians in the year 1917… the sailors stood in the front
rows of the revolutions in February, March, and finally in October.
So
if one would like to place blame on the failure that ensued…of course it is
easy to start with Lenin, but others contributed largely to what would come to
pass…there were those intellectuals who knew all along Lenin’s true character,
there were those in four separate leaderships steering the state who couldn’t
pass confidence among not only the sailors but the people as well.
Finally,
there is Dybenko...for allowing himself to be bamboozled and seduced into
believing.
