tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6903281042242791813.post6332008230718230657..comments2024-03-26T15:02:07.811-04:00Comments on Socialist Standard Past & Present: The Rehabilitation of Pavel Dybenko (1964)Imposs1904http://www.blogger.com/profile/04043116442576404667noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6903281042242791813.post-17776891213099469642017-07-27T19:02:54.084-04:002017-07-27T19:02:54.084-04:00weidberg's knowledge of past events during the...weidberg's knowledge of past events during the early soviet history era demonstrates some often made assumptions that are historically inaccurate. His article lacks a truthful understanding of events as they occurred...but one can not fault weidberg...russian history is riddled in doublespeak...one has to dig deep to acquire a true understanding of how life and actions of individuals would come to be defined.<br />As in the case of Dybenko...<br />During the year 1917 Dybenko was not one of Lenin's "professional revolutionaries"<br />In fact, Lenin knew a successful insurrection would be impossible without the support of the Baltic Fleet...and it was Lenin who sought out the support of Dybenko...Dybenko cared little for elite intellectuals...ask Kerensky.<br />Lenin sends to Dybenko at the main base of Helsingfors (not Kronshtadt) Anton-Ovesseenko, Raskolnilov, and the temptress Kollontai.<br />All worked to seduce Dybenko into supporting Lenin. Dybenko's days in Kresty during July accentuated this seduction as Kamenev, Lunarcharsky, and Trotsky worked on the soul of Dybenko. So what were these comrades of Lenin doing?...demanding the sailors leader (Dybenko was Chairman of the freely elected Tsentrobalt) to support an oppressive regime...an authoritarian government?...of course not...it borders on the ridiculous to assume Dybenko and the sailors would have supported such a platform. Dybenko was hoodwinked...as was the masses who took to the streets of many Russian cities demanding representation...Lenin perpetuates immense fraud holding fast to his heart the desires of many Russians..only to squash their belief of social change...Lenin was no socialist...simply a blood thirsty man who desired power...Trotsky no different...A conflict between Dybenko's design for a representative government and Lenin's opportunistic vanguardism was imminent...Dybenko loses...becomes dust under the rug of historical significance. Removed from historical record and cast as a "loose cannon" and "drunkard"...Dybenko found himself to be a "man without a country"<br />"The armed fist of the revolution" in the person of Dybenko, the Russian Navy and the Soviet Tsentrobalt - had to be destroyed and, like everything else in Russia, to submit to the Executive Committee and the people's dictatorship.<br />Dybenko became a slave of the Soviet government, which he hated, but which he still served... <br /><br />on a final note...the events of Kronshtadt 1921 are horribly despicable no doubt...Dybenko played a role no doubt...but when discussing Russian History...look beyond the curtain...find out who Alexander Sedyakin was...delve deeper than a cursory glance...one might find as a famous radio announcer would say, "the rest of the story"Pavel Dybenkohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08673607049392473515noreply@blogger.com