3/29/2017
Archpriest Vladimir Vigilyansky, Olesya Nikolaeva
In fact, liberal politicians, writers and journalists acted, without fully realizing it, in the role of instigators of terrorism and participants in the “big lie” project.
The issue of capital punishment in Russia became an argument in demagogic reasoning by opponents of the Russian state system.
Terrorists in their doctrinal worldview statements assured that they fought exclusively with exploiters, but in fact they did not disdain the murders of people from the poorest strata of society—peasants or workers, if they considered themselves monarchists and patriots of Russia.
Gapon, perhaps, did not realize that he had become the main provocateur and instigator of these bloody events, and placed all the blame on Emperor Nicholas II.
The Socialist-Revolutionaries and agents of the RSDLP accompanying the procession were armed and fired at the military. Activists provoked the demonstrators to beat Cossacks and soldiers.
Russia, for centuries and up to the present day, has been and remains a testing ground for the technologies of the “big lie.”
The period from 1901 to 1910 was not only a time of emerging unrest in the Russian Empire, but also one of careful preparation for a revolutionary apocalypse. Interestingly, V. I. Lenin held the same view; in his 1920 article, “Left-Wing” Communism: An Infantile Disorder, he referred to the events of 1905–1907 as a “general rehearsal,” without which “the victory of the October Revolution of 1917 would have been impossible.”
Olesya Nikolaeva
The elder was lying with his eyes closed, covered with a blanket up to his chin, and only his hands, his kind, soft hands rested on top. We kissed the elder’s warm right hand, venerating it with awe as if a relic, and with such tenderness as to a loved one, as to a father.
