No, That Wasn’t Just A Dream!

Irina Malenkov

The enemies still really cannot sleep in peace, while the people of the world still remember the Great October Socialist Revolution. They are afraid of it and getting a cold sweat from its name alone – and they also hate themselves for it – because they have convinced themselves that they are "cool" and that the whole world exists purely for satisfying their ever-growing greed. But that DAY reminds them – and us also – that it is not so. And that is why these enemies are in rage and hate, even on this 88th Anniversary that just passed of the Great October Socialist Revolution.

These enemies do not really know how to make us forget about it. Boris Yeltsin tried to declare November 7th as the "Day of Reconciliation" between the predators and their prey. It didn’t work out. The "prey" stubbornly continued to celebrate it for what it was – the Great October Socialist Revolution Day. Now, Yeltsin’s heirs (like Gorbachev and Putin ) decided to go a step further – from now on, the Soviet people are supposed to work on this Day – and in order to try to confuse and throw a bit of a bone to the people (as you would throw to a dog) – Soviet people were told to celebrate instead a mystical "day of national unity" (that is against the Polish occupants in the XVII Century).

Every Russian that I know - regardless of their political view – upon hearing of this, asked immediately: "Why this? Why not the Day of the Kulikovo Battle (1380)? Or Borodino Battle (1812)? Or the Lake Chudskoye Battle (1241)?"

The answer is very simple! The Polish surrender in the Kremlin in 1813 was the only one of all these dates that occurred in November. And the goal of the present regime in hastily declaring it as a replacement for the Great October Revolution Day, was to force people into forgetting that November 1917 was, is and always will be a far more important date, not just for the Soviet Union and its people, but for the whole human history.

The present regime did not even care that they were not accurate in this date. The Poles surrendered in 1613, not on the 4^th of November, but on the 5^th of November.

Why exactly was November 4^th chosen? According to APN, the real date of the liberation of Moscow in 1612 was not the 4^th but the 5th of November, but the present Russian regime chose the 4^th because the 5^th of November was too close to the November 7^th celebrations, and they were afraid that most people will not appear at work of the 7^th. Yet, it had to be a November date "because people are already used to celebrate and drink in November", as the present authorities cynically claimed

There is a new joke going around in Russia nowadays: "The French Parliament deduced to follow the present Russian government’s initiative and to call off the annual French celebration of the 14th of July – the French Revolution Day. (Bastille Day)"

Shubin declared that the initiative to "call off" the November 7th Day came from the Russian Orthodox Church leaders. For those of us that know what the Russian Orthodox Church is like – for example – nowadays you can buy in Moscow a bottle of mineral water "blessed" by father-such-and such, and the church gets a percentage of the sales – that does not come as a surprise. The Church is just a big business. It has no problem "blessing" young Russian soldiers to go and die in Chechnya or elsewhere. It even provided such services as also "blessing" for example, of a new computer server for a company. For the right price, of course!

The present regime authorities are so terribly afraid of even thinking about the Great October Revolution on November 7^th, that they are prepared to take measures that are so ridiculous (as described above). What do we want to celebrate the 4th of November in Moscow today if the foreign occupiers are still in Moscow – even though they are dressed as businessmen, advisors or religious preachers? It’s time to cry, not to celebrate, if we are honest.

But the mood in ex-USSR and in Russia in particular is changing. Even the pop singer stars like Oleg Gazmanov who before jumped on the Putin wagon, who was praising the "White Cossacks" in the 1990’s, nowadays is singing different songs like "I was born in the USSR" and the "New Dawn" where he sings: " We would like to live but not in vain." So, now he realizes like others do that we were living in vain during all of these "free market" years – unlike our fathers and grandfathers!

Well, better late than never! The change in the mood of the people is reflected in the poll conducted by "Komsomolskaya Pravda" where an absolute majority of the people expressed strongly negative views towards the abolishing of the National Holiday of November 7th. Here are just some of the answers:

"The real makers of history are not those who change the names of the national days or replace them with other ones, but those who undertake the deeds that will find their place in history. Nobody needs this so-called 4^th of November day, and nobody can take the Revolution Day away from us!"

Do you think it is normal that a girl who did not mind enjoying free education in a Soviet musical school and receiving a stipend on top of that, today sings her songs for NATO in Brussels, Belgium? She is Ruslana Lyzhichko, Eurovision song contest winner from Ukraine. She abandoned her surname because it was too difficult for her masters to pronounce. What kind of cooperation is she offering, may I ask? Posing nearly nude as a pin-up for calendars and posters for NATO soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq? Making a video-clip to convince the Ukrainian boys to sign up for Iraq?

"How we’ll be able to win, if we are so easily bought?" bitterly sings Oleg Gazmanov.

How?

Very easy… just stop selling yourselves!

No, the USSR was not a dream! It was real! It was the best time in the history of the Soviet people and in the history of the whole of mankind. More and more people in the world are beginning to realize this now. For example, in Ireland where many workers are losing their jobs or are being forced to work for lower wages, because their employers are beginning to replace them with far cheaper and much less "picky" unemployed that were "liberated from communism" youth from Eastern Europe. Many of these are now beginning to ask themselves: "Is this what ‘getting rid of Communism’ was done for?" You bet it was! And this is just the beginning.

We should be ashamed of ourselves that we have betrayed what generations of people worldwide were struggling for. It is always so much easier to destroy than to build. It is always so much easier to let the weeds grow all over your garden than to pull them out, day-in, day-out, every day. Because, that is what the building of a new socialist society is like – daily hard work, without a touch of glamour. Like weeding of a garden.

USSR could not have been perfect. Perfect does not exist. But, it was still the best of what was possible under the circumstances.

It was the time of hope with a capital H!