Russia doing a full-scale aggression against Ukraine. Every day we receive information about more and more victims. This war does not end only with rocket attacks, robberies and violence. Unfortunately, the goals of the Russian occupier are more global - it is an attempt not only to physically but also mentally destroy Ukrainians, to erase national identity in the occupied territories.
Today's Russia is similar to Stalin's USSR in more and more ways, including the constant search for enemies and the paranoia of betrayal. Some examples of this panic may be funny, but also helps inform what Moscow might do next.
Bolshevik, (Russian: “One of the Majority”) , plural Bolsheviks, or Bolsheviki, member of a wing of the Russian Social-Democratic Workers’ Party, which, led by Vladimir Lenin, seized control of the government in Russia (October 1917) and became the dominant political power. The group originated at the party’s second congress (1903) when Lenin’s followers, insisting that party membership be restricted to professional revolutionaries, won a temporary majority on the party’s central committee and on the editorial board of its newspaper Iskra. They assumed the name Bolsheviks and dubbed their opponents the Mensheviks (“Those of the Minority”). Although both factions participated together
After the revolution, the Bolsheviks were obsessed with radical reforms of the Russian language. It was Joseph Stalin who saved the Russian language by canceling the launched programs for a transition to the Latin alphabet.