05.12.2025, St. Petersburg.
The Bolsheviks, having sized power in Russia, dreamed of the country’s industrial development, political scientist, philosopher, and leader of the Essence of Time movement Sergey Kurginyan said on November 19, speaking at the the 20th International Congress “Health as the Basis of Human Potential: Problems and Solutions,” held in St. Petersburg from November 18 to 22.
Kurginyan said that the Bolsheviks were simply “obsessed with it; in 1918 they wanted nothing except this development.”
The political scientist recalled the situation in Russia at that time: the Socialist Revolutionary uprising, Vladimir Lenin severely wounded, Bolsheviks’ power practically hanging by a thread, and at that moment, “he sends the last military units, construction materials, food supplies, and everything else to build in Volkhovstroy,” not knowing what tomorrow will bring.
Kurginyan mentioned the well-known GOELRO plan [the first of Soviet Russia’s plans for national economic recovery and development] and described how the elder brother of revolutionary Vladimir Bonch-Bruevich — Major General of the Russian Imperial Army Mikhail Bonch-Bruevich — managed to secure access to Emperor Nicholas II for a certain Mr. Manikovsky, who before the revolution headed the Main Artillery Directorate of the Empire. As the political scientist noted, “artillery at that time was a high-tech sector.”
Manikovsky presented the emperor with a program for industrial development of the Russian Empire. According to Bonch-Bruevich’s recollections, the emperor politely bid Manikovsky farewell and, after he left, said, “Why did you bring me this insane man? What is he talking about?”
The emperor stated that “first and foremost, this is impossible; second, for me to begin doing this, I would have to shoot my own family and most of the aristocracy of the Russian Empire; and third, who are those who would execute them by shooting?”
After the Bolsheviks came to power, Manikovsky was sent to Lenin and Stalin, resulting in Soviet Russia adopting an industrialization program that, as Kurginyan said, “was literally a repetition of the program of the Main Artillery Directorate, which had gone beyond its direct responsibilities and dealt with more than artillery.”
This happened, Kurginyan said, “because those who came to power — and they dreamed only of this [development] — understood that they could maintain power only through this, and so on.”
“The change of social formation in this case did not lead to the destruction of high-technological forces. It led to accelerated development,” said the political scientist, adding that “this always happens if the historical process — what they call progress — continues.”
But “as soon as, during a transitional change of formation, you destroy the high-technological sector, you launch a very well-known process called regression — the opposite of progress,” which, he said, is what we are observing today.
Kurginyan emphasized that “we must first and foremost recognize that we are discussing a unified, comprehensive regression of everything: medicine, industry.” And although there are isolated optimistic signs — for example, “some individual ball-bearing factories exist somewhere, or they are claimed to exist” — nevertheless, Russia should “be grateful to Belarus for being able to use ball bearings.”
Source: Rossa Primavera News Agency
