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G.P. KHOMIZURI

CHRONOLOGY OF TERROR

(An Experience in the Construction of Communism in the USSR. 1917-1930)
Moscow - 2006

[A part of the research, which the author continues to work on, is presented for the readers' attention]

The collapse of the communist regime in the USSR and in the countries of Eastern Europe initially instilled hope that communism would soon be finished once and for all. But the euphoria quickly passed. Communist regimes continue to live and thrive in
China, North Korea, and Cuba. The Libyan and Syrian regimes (by the way, all building socialism) are, in essence, no different from the North Korean one. Communist parties exist in practically every country in the world. In the elections for the president of Russia, the leader of the communists, Zyuganov, received 30 and more than 20 million votes, respectively. No, the idea of communism is not finished. And, probably, it will never be finished.
It will never be finished because a communist (as well as any other totalitarian) regime suits not only people striving for unlimited power over their fellow beings, but also huge masses of people with primitive thinking: two times two is four, a triangle has 3 angles. It suits those who are too lazy to think and figure out all these "intellectualisms": pre-impressionism, impressionism, post-impressionism, surrealism; isn't primitive realism simpler—everything is clear there: this is a cow, this is a birch tree, this is a tractor. And the simplest of all, of course, is two times two is four: "No hesitation, no delusion. Truth is one, and the true path is one; and this truth is two times two, and this true path is four" (Zamyatin. We).
A communist regime suits people with a primitive social orientation more than any other system: "All people are equal." Knowing their own deficiency, they try to bring those who are clearly above them down to their own level, to "equalize" them with themselves. Such individuals have always existed. Recall Heraclitus: "The Ephesians deserved it, that all their adults should perish and leave the city to the adolescents, for they drove out Hermodorus, the best among them, with these words: 'None among us shall be the best, and if there is such a one, let him be in a foreign land and with strangers'."
Such "morality" is skillfully used by those who have seized power, replacing the idea of equality in rights with the idea of equality in behavior with a clear hierarchy: "All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others." And this is the cherished dream of the lower classes: to rise to a level, and perhaps several levels higher, and become "even more equal."
A communist regime is sweeter than any other totalitarian one in that other regimes require some kind of morality (the commandments of Christ, Muhammad, a national idea)—the communist regime frees one from any remnants of morality and requires only one thing—"devotion to the idea of communism," but in reality—devotion to the leader or the party oligarchy.
No, the communist regime will always have numerous supporters.
So, perhaps the common saying is true, that "history teaches that it teaches nothing"? No, of course not. It is true only for those who do not study it. Since the so-called "glasnost and perestroika" and the partial opening of archives in Russia and the former republics of the USSR, a mass of publications about the terror of the communists in the USSR has appeared. However, it should be kept in mind that the largest number of publications belongs to the pens of those who for decades sang the praises of the communist regime, and now have allegedly "seen the light."