The Decrees of #Soviet Power Being Read to the People, #painting #USSR, Victor Ivanov

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Before the demonisation of the Soviet Union sullied communism in the mind of the masses, many people in Western capitalist countries stood against any attacks on the first worker-led socialist country.

A "Defend the Soviet Union" rally in New York, 1920s.

The working class cannot play its world-revolutionary role unless it wages a ruthless struggle against this renegacy. spinelessness, subservience to opportunism and unexampled vulgarization of the theories of Marxism.

#Lenin, #Socialism and #War (1915)

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Socialists must explain to the masses that they have no other road of salvation except the revolutionary overthrow of “their” governments, and that advantage must be taken of these governments’ embarrassments in the present war precisely for this purpose.

#Lenin, #Socialism and #War (1915)

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"Shurovalshchiki", 1930 g.

Dormidontov Nikolai Ivanovich (1898 - 1962)

"Dneprostroi Shock Workers", 1932

Isaak Izrailevich Brodsky (1884−1939)