Soviet republic

And they had pretty large groups which were armed, and yeah, it's a... not really well researched, considering that, like, when you start researching, you quickly realize how much it actually was pretty developed, and there was not only a few people, it seemed quite organized.

If I might add, you know, we shouldn't forget that, of course, there is actually even a Soviet Republic in Hungary in 1919, and Pelagicivtsi are actually some of the Yugoslav communists that play a crucial role there.

So what we are seeing is, yes, I mentioned the green cadres, the peasant rebels, they're definitely the kind of agrarian revolution, essentially, of the peasant party in Bulgaria.

But there's also a Soviet republic in the heart of Europe on the borders of Yugoslavia and Romania.

Romania is feeling kind of doubly threatened.

I think even kind of the development of Romanian fascism, I think the anti-communist aspect is rather underappreciated because people always say, well, you see, Romania had a huge fascist movement, but no communist threat.

Nonetheless, this ends up making Vienna a safe haven for political dissidents, really of all stripes.

I mean, we'll be focusing on the Marxists today, but everyone is there.

A scientific fountain of youth owned by the state.

So Stalin showers Bogomolets with everything, puts him in charge of science for the entire Soviet Republic, gives him the Order of Lenin, the hero of the socialist labor, the highest honors the country's got.

The serum goes out by the millions of doses, and the story goes that Stalin himself takes it.

The fountain of youth finally found a sponsor, and it's the most feared man on the planet.

Is it still a, an issue that he's from Georgia? Uh, 'cause w- we, we established very much in the first episode that in the czarist system, if you are from Poland or from Georgia, from the extremities of the empire, you are effectively a second-class citizen.

The new Soviet Republic is different, uh, and has a different attitude to the nationalities.

But nonetheless, this is a man with a very strong Georgian accent.

Uh, Russian is still very much his second language.

But to oppose it from the point of view of a supporter of capitalism would be, to my mind, utterly futile and against the movement of history in the present age.

The effect of Bolshevism as a revolutionary hope is greater outside Russia than within the Soviet Republic.

Grim realities have done much to kill hope among those who are subject to the dictatorship of Moscow.

Yet even within Russia, the Communist Party, in whose hands all political power is concentrated, still lives by hope, though the pressure of events has made the hope severe and stern and somewhat remote.

Cars dashed by full of armed men, red flags appeared everywhere.

The people stormed the citadel and hauled down the effigy of the Tsar.

The Kerensky government assumed control and drove them forth to war again, but soon they returned to the charge, destroyed the provisional government, and hoisted all the emblems of the Russian Soviet Republic.

The Entente leaders, however, were seen preparing their troops for battle, and the pageant went on to show the formation of the Red Army under its emblem, the Red Star.

There won't be any hiding from them if they take power, so.

I, I, yeah, I just would remind people, the Soviet Union, the USSR, was the United Socialist Soviet Republics.

It was not the United Soviet Communist Republic.

Right.

One in five of the Jewish migrants went to Moscow."

Yeah, so it's, uh, Russian, uh, Soviet Republic.

Um, yeah, this, you know, and, and we, we talked about this already, the so-called, uh, forbidden provinces.

Now, they, they went, they went wherever they wanted.

It's still a, a Jewish domain in the West and the legal profession, uh, especially among the academics in the US.

Uh, it's just no, no shock there.

Um, you say RSFSR, you're talking about just the Russian Soviet Republic.

Um, so, you know, legal system for the NEP era and then everything...

But to oppose it from the point of view of a supporter of capitalism would be, to my mind, utterly futile and against the movement of history in the present age.

The effect of Bolshevism as a revolutionary hope is greater outside Russia than within the Soviet Republic.

Grim realities have done much to kill hope among those who are subject to the dictatorship of Moscow.

Yet even within Russia, the Communist Party, in whose hands all political power is concentrated, still lives by hope, though the pressure of events has made the hope severe and stern and somewhat remote.

Cars dashed by full of armed men, red flags appeared everywhere.

The people stormed the citadel and hauled down the effigy of the Tsar.

The Kerensky government assumed control and drove them forth to war again, but soon they returned to the charge, destroyed the provisional government, and hoisted all the emblems of the Russian Soviet Republic.

The Entente leaders, however, were seen preparing their troops for battle, and the pageant went on to show the formation of the Red Army under its emblem, the Red Star.