Page 33 - Communism in Ambush

Adnan Oktar (Harun Yahya)
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supported revolution by violence; while another group wanted to bring
Marxism to Russia by more democratic means. The Leninists, though
small in numbers, used various methods of pressure to gain the majority
and became known as the Bolsheviks, the Russian word for majority.
The other group was called the Mensheviks, which means minority.
The Bolsheviks began to organize following the way Lenin had out-
lined, through such methods as assassinations, confiscation of govern-
ment money, and robbing official institutions. After many years of
banishment, the Bolsheviks began their Russian Revolution of 1917.
Actually, that year saw two separate revolutions. The first came in
February; when Tsar Nicholas II was removed from the throne and im-
prisoned with his family, and a democratic government was established.
But the Bolsheviks didn't want democracy; they were determined to es-
tablish a dictatorship of the proletariat.
In October 1917, their awaited revolution took place. Communist
militants led by Lenin and Trotsky, his chief assistant, seized first the
former capital, Petrograd ("Peter City," named for Peter the Great), and
then Moscow. Battles in these two cities established the world's first
Communist regime.
After the October Revolution, Russia was swept by a three-year
civil war between the so-called White Army, assembled by Tsarist gen-
erals, and the Red Army led by Trotsky. In July of 1918, Lenin ordered
Bolshevik militants to execute Tsar Nicholas II and his family, including
his three children. In the course of the civil war, the Bolsheviks did not
hesitate to commit the bloodiest crimes, murders, and tortures against
their opponents.
Both the Red Army and the Cheka, a secret police organization
founded by Lenin, inflicted terror on all parts of society opposed to the
revolution. A book entitled The Black Book of Communism written by a
group of scholars and published by the Harvard University Press, de-
scribing Communist atrocities throughout the world, has this to say
about Bolshevik terror:
The Bolsheviks had decided to eliminate, by legal and physical means, any
challenge or resistance, even if passive, to their absolute power. This strat-
egy applied not only to groups with opposing political views, but also to
such social groups as the nobility, the middle class, the intelligentsia, and