◾122 years ago, on March 10, 1902, Iskra published a message about the publication of a book by V.I. Lenin "What is to be done?"

The work "What is to be done?" Urgent issues of our movement” is one of Lenin’s most famous and fundamental works. It was written in 1902. This was a period when the spontaneous struggle of workers and peasants for their rights grew, and there was no single party capable of organizing and leading this struggle. In "What is to be done?" Lenin comprehensively substantiated the most important role of revolutionary theory in the revolutionary movement, the idea of creating a proletarian party of a new type, fundamentally different from the reformist parties of the 2nd International. The book represents a detailed program for organizing such a Marxist party and a plan for the struggle for its creation.

You can download the pdf here.

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"Up till now our Party has resembled a hospitable patriarchal family, ready to take in all who sympathise. But now that our Party has become a centralised organisation, it has thrown off its patriarchal aspect and has become in all respects like a fortress, the gates of which are opened only to those who are worthy. And that is of great importance to us. At a time when the autocracy is trying to corrupt the class consciousness of the proletariat with "trade unionism," nationalism, clericalism and the like, and when, on the other hand, the liberal intelligentsia is persistently striving to kill the political independence of the proletariat and to impose its tutelage upon it—at such a time we must be extremely vigilant and never forget that our Party is a fortress, the gates of which are opened only to those who have been tested."

- Stalin, The Proletarian Class and
The Proletarian Party.

The Rebuilt by Russia Mariupol railway station.

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On March 11th 1918, the Soviet government moved the country's capital from Petrograd to Moscow

Back at the end of February 1918, in connection with the German offensive, which threatened the immediate approaches to Petrograd, the question of moving the capital to Moscow came to a head for the young Soviet government.

On February 26th 1918, a meeting of the Council of People's Commissars was held in Petrograd, at which V.I. Lenin drew up a draft resolution on the evacuation of the government to Moscow.

Preparations for departure and the departure itself were not advertised. Conspiracy was the strictest. The message about the government's move was published in the newspaper Pravda only after the members of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee and the Council of People's Commissars had left Petrograd.

The government message read:

“..the interests of the entire country require this. The German imperialists, who imposed their annexationist world on us, remain mortal enemies of Soviet power.
Now they are opening a campaign against revolutionary Finland.
Under these conditions, it is impossible for the Council of People’s Commissars to stay and work any longer in Petrograd, within a two-day march from the location of the German troops.”

So on March 11th 1918, Moscow became the capital of the Soviet state.

On March 16th 1918, the Extraordinary IV All-Russian Congress of Soviets finally sanctioned the government's decision with its resolution.

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This is a rally of Hitler supporters in 1937. No rally in the history of mankind has ever attracted such a number of people. In 8 years (in 1945) most of these people will say that they never supported Hitler’s ideas

"We stand here as men who refute their Jewishness and the Holocaust being hijacked by an occupation."

Academy Award-winning director Jonathan Glazer sends a message at the Oscars.

Translation of above:
A little Belarusian national Stalinism.

I praise your name with a thought-song
The Belarusian people are free
For our Belarusian state,
What did you create for us, my dear!

In a bright winter, a noisy harbinger,
On clear nights, at dawn
We compose a song with all our hearts about a song
About Stalin, a song-pearl.

Yanka Kupala. About Stalin the reaper, 1939.

When the Russians owned part of California

The possessions of the Russian Empire in the north-west of the American continent at the beginning of the 19th century brought good income from fishing and fur trade, but were poorly suited for farming.

A suitable place for establishing an agricultural colony by an employee of the Russian-American Company Ivan Kuskov discovered it on the Pacific coast of the modern state of California, 80 km north of San Francisco, on lands that belonged to the Kashaya Pomo Indian tribe. He liked the climate, pastures, forests and river. Kuskov bought a plot of land from the Indians for several strings of beads, axes, hoes, blankets and 3 pairs of pants.

Having landed 25 Russian colonists and 90 Aleuts on the shore of a convenient bay, on September 11, 1812, he founded a fortified settlement, which he called Ross Fortress (Fort Ross is the modern Americanized name of the settlement). The fortress became the southernmost Russian possession in North America.

South of the fortifications, the Russians built three ranch farms: Yegor Chernykh's ranch near the modern city of Graton, Vasily Khlebnikov's ranch near the city of Bodega, and Peter Kostromitinov's ranch south of the Slavyanka River (today called the Russian River).

The Spaniards, who considered California their possession, wanted to achieve the liquidation of the fortress, but did not dare to openly conflict with the Russian Empire. Mexico, which declared independence in 1821, also tried to get rid of its Russian neighbors through diplomatic methods, which did not stop the settlers from trading with the Mexicans.

The fort became a stronghold of the Russian-American trading company and a religious center of the Russian community. They were engaged in fur farming and viticulture, grazed livestock, and built ships from the local forest.

Despite all the economic efforts of the settlers, Fort Ross remained unprofitable for the RAC, and in 1841 the company sold the fort to entrepreneur and landowner John Sutter for $30,000. The fort went through several owners until the state of California became its owner in 1906.

Now Fort Ross is a museum and part of the California's State Historic Park.

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