Red Guards
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Oct 16, 2026
Matt WalshHOST
They enforced decrees with riots, mob violence, and strikes that herald public infrastructure.
Matt WalshHOST
The Soviets projected their power by using organized industrial workers known as Red Guards and defected soldiers to patrol the cities, enforce their dictates, and engage in mob violence, much like modern-day Antifa.
Matt WalshHOST
They often lynched police officers, looted businesses, and assassinated their enemies.
Matt WalshHOST
Through these intimidation tactics, the Petrograd Soviet became incredibly powerful.
Victor SebestyenGUEST
And finally, finally, more or less at dawn, he persuaded them.
Victor SebestyenGUEST
So there wa- there was this agreement within the Bolshe- his Bolshevik group that, who did have quite a few Red Guards and, and some hard men t- too, by the way.
Victor SebestyenGUEST
But he forced them that they were gonna do this on the, on the 25th of October.
Victor SebestyenGUEST
That was a kind of very historic meeting, which, you know, is a very important date in history.
Dan SnowHOST
... key, key nodes of the, of the Russian state.
Dan SnowHOST
You, you mentioned the Red Guard earlier.
Dan SnowHOST
Just quickly tell everyone who the Red Guards are.
Victor SebestyenGUEST
Well, the Bolsheviks did have armed...
Dan MahoneyGUEST
He sees the need for reform.
Dan MahoneyGUEST
And there's a very dramatic scene written as in, like, a play where Nepenin and his officers are murdered by these Red Guards, and, uh, it's a portent of things to come.
Dan MahoneyGUEST
Um, and let me add one more thing, and, uh, that is, um, uh, well, Solzhenitsyn is-- was extremely critical in previous nodes of the ineffectualness of the Tsar, uh, Nicholas.
Dan MahoneyGUEST
His, uh, preoccupation with family over his public duties, his inability to move with the times, not in a progressive way, but just as a statesman, you know? So there's no more contrary to legend.
Victor SebestyenGUEST
And finally, more or less at dawn, he persuaded them.
Victor SebestyenGUEST
So there was this agreement within his Bolshevik group, who did have quite a few Red Guards and some hard men, two by the way.
Victor SebestyenGUEST
But he forced them that they were going to do this on the 25th of October.
Victor SebestyenGUEST
That was a kind of very historic meeting, which was a very important date in history.
Dan SnowHOST
This is a very, very finally, well, it's a pre-prepared coup by a small group of people who know exactly what they're doing and strike at the key nodes of the Russian state.
Dan SnowHOST
You mentioned a Red Guard earlier.
Dan SnowHOST
Just quickly tell everyone who the Red Guards are.
Victor SebestyenGUEST
Well, the Bolsheviks did have armed, again, they seized arms, mostly from, a lot of them were old soldiers who'd mutinied.
Daniel J. MahoneyGUEST
He sees the need for reform.
Daniel J. MahoneyGUEST
And there's a very dramatic scene written as, uh, like a play where Nepenin and his officers are murdered by these Red Guards, and, uh, it's a portent of things to come.
Daniel J. MahoneyGUEST
Um, and let me add one more thing, and, uh, that is, um, uh, well, Solzhenitsyn is-- was extremely critical in previous nodes of the ineffectualness of the Tsar, uh, Nicholas.
Daniel J. MahoneyGUEST
His, uh, preoccupation with family over his public duties, his inability to move with the times, not in a progressive way, but just as a statesman, you know.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
They remained under the Bolsheviks.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
And in addition, the Bolsheviks in Kiev were supported by a sizable group of Jewish workers who returned from England after they, the February Revolution, and who now wholly, siding with the Soviet regime, took up the posts of commissars and officials and created a special Jewish squad of Red Guards.
Matthew Raphael JohnsonGUEST
Well, they didn't need to have a special squad of Red Guards.
Matthew Raphael JohnsonGUEST
Red Guards were Jewish.
Matthew Raphael JohnsonGUEST
They always loved giving the impression that they needed a special Jewish section, as if it wasn't already a Jewish movement.
Matthew Raphael JohnsonGUEST
By Jewish workers, they meant party workers returning from England.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
They remained under the Bolsheviks.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
And in addition, the Bolsheviks in Kiev were supported by a sizable group of Jewish workers who returned from England after they, the February Revolution, and who now wholly, siding with the Soviet regime, took up the posts of commissars and officials and created a special Jewish squad of Red Guards.
Matthew Raphael JohnsonGUEST
Well, they didn't need to have a special squad of Red Guards.
Matthew Raphael JohnsonGUEST
Red Guards were Jewish.
Matthew Raphael JohnsonGUEST
They always loved giving the impression that they needed a special Jewish section, as if it wasn't already a Jewish movement.
Matthew Raphael JohnsonGUEST
By Jewish workers, they meant party workers returning from England.
Jesse KellyHOST
They let the rapist out.
Jesse KellyHOST
They put a, they put into place a judge who would never arrest him again, and then they brought the rapist in and put a Red Guard uniform on him and handed him a gun.
Jesse KellyHOST
Why? Well, you have to do terrible things.
Jesse KellyHOST
This guy has done terrible things his whole life.
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