The Editing

of History

SOVIET CENSORSHIP

And Parallels with Animal Farm

THE ORIGINAL PICTURE, LEFT TO RIGHT NIKOLAI ANTIPOV,  JOSEPH STALIN, SERGEI KIROV, AND NIKOLAI

SHVERNIK. PICTURE SHOWS HOW AFTER TIME EACH OF THE STALIN'S COMRADES FROM THE ORIGINAL SHOT WAS

REMOVED AS THEY FELL OUT OF FAVOR

VOROSHILOV, MOLOTOV, STALIN, WITH NIKOLAI YEZHOV  AT THE SHORE OF THE

MOSKWA-WOLGA-CHANNEL

STUDY IT…..

UHHH WHERE’D HE GO???

Yezhov, head of the NKVD during the purges, was arrested, tortured and confessed to anti soviet plots. He was executed in 1940 and also vanished from Soviet history.

LENIN ADDRESSING THE TROOPS IN 1920 WITH TROTSKY AND KAMENEV

AND THEN….POOF…THEY WERE GONE

Where did they go?

CELEBRATING THE 2ND ANNIVERSARY OF THE REVOLUTION

TROTSKY IS NO MORE…

DURING THE 1917 REVOLT SOLDIERS CHEER IN THE STREETS

IN THE BACKGROUND IS A STORE THAT USED TO SAY IN RUSSIAN, "WATCHES, GOLD AND SILVER." THE HAS NOW BEEN ALTERED TO

READ, "STRUGGLE FOR YOUR RIGHTS." ALSO A FLAG THAT BEFORE WAS A SOLID COLOR NOW READS, "DOWN WITH THE

MONARCHY - LONG LIVE THE REPUBLIC!"

The le t te r const i tu tes a c r i t ique o f the Sov ie t government as i t then s tood, warn ing o f dangers he ant i c ipated and making suggest ions for the fu ture . Some of those suggest ions inc lude inc reas ing the s i ze o f the Par ty 's Centra l Commit tee , g iv ing the State P lann ing Commit tee leg i s la t ive powers and chang ing the nat iona l i t i es po l i cy which had been implemented by Sta l in .

The c r i t i c i sm of S ta l in and Trotsky:

“Comrade Sta l in , hav ing become Secre tary- Genera l , has un l im i ted author i ty concentrated in h i s hands , and I am not sure whether he wi l l a lways be capable o f us ing that author i ty w i th suffi c ient caut ion . Comrade Trotsky , on the other hand, as h i s s t rugg le aga ins t the C .C . on the quest ion o f the People 's Commissar ia t o f Communicat ions has a l ready proved, i s d i s t ingu ished not on ly by outs tand ing ab i l i ty. He i s persona l ly perhaps the most capable man in the present C .C . , but he has d i sp layed excess ive se l f-assurance and shown excess ive preoccupat ion wi th the pure ly admin is t rat ive s ide o f the work .”

These two qua l i t i es o f the two outs tand ing leaders o f the present C .C . can inadver tent ly lead to a sp l i t , and i f our Par ty does not take s teps to aver t th i s , the sp l i t may come unexpected ly

Len in fe l t that Sta l in had more power than he cou ld handle and might be dangerous i f a l l owed to succeed h im. In a postsc r ipt wr i t ten a few weeks la te r , Len in recommended Sta l in 's removal f rom the pos i t ion o f Genera l Secre tary o f the Par ty:

“Sta l in i s too coarse and th i s de fec t , a l though qu i te to le rab le in our midst and in dea l ing among us Communis ts , becomes in to le rab le in a Secre tary- Genera l . That i s why I suggest that the comrades th ink about a way o f removing Sta l in f rom that post and appo int ing another man in h i s s tead who in a l l o ther respects d iff ers f rom Comrade Sta l in in hav ing on ly one advantage , namely , that o f be ing more to le rant , more loya l , more po l i te and more cons iderate to the comrades , l ess capr i c ious , e tc . Th i s c i rcumstance may appear to be a neg l ig ib le deta i l . But I th ink that f rom the s tandpo int o f sa feguards aga ins t a sp l i t and f rom the s tandpo int o f what I wrote above about the re lat ionsh ip between Sta l in and Trotsky i t i s not a [minor ] deta i l , but i t i s a deta i l wh ich can assume dec i s ive impor tance .”

LENIN’S LAST TESTAMENT

LENIN’S LAST TESTAMENT

ANIMAL FARM

THE SEVEN COMMANDMENTS

DID IT ALWAYS SAY THAT???