20.12.2023, Aleksandrovskoye.
During the Civil War, patriotic former Czarist officers went to build the Red Army because they realized that the Reds needed Russia, stated philosopher, analyst, and the leader of the Essence of Time movement Sergey Kurginyan in a new installment of the original program Destiny on December 12.
According to the political scientist, the building of the Red Army was carried out by Czarist officers who did not want to cooperate with the interventionists.
“One of the people who collected the officers of the Czar’s intelligence directorate, recruiting them into the Soviet Army, the Red Army – as it was called then – told my relatives that those Dukes and all others who were fighting on the White side, they didn’t need Russia anymore, they needed their estates, and they didn’t care how exactly the country would had been split up,” said Sergey Kurginyan. “But that Trotsky, he said with a wry grin, needed Russia for some reason. He said that he needed an army for the world revolution. So let us build an army for Trotsky, if he needs and wants it so much. Then he paused for a moment and said, ‘And when there would be an army, there would be no Trotsky’,” he added.
According to him, the Czarist officers who reasoned that way were right.
“So how are we going to treat all this? It’s a question. Wrangel – it was not about what ideas he espoused, whether he was a Russian patriot, whether he loved Russia. The question was with whom and how he cooperated and whether he could not cooperate,” the political scientist wondered.
He recalled that Admiral Kolchak, who collaborated with the interventionists, was also an officer in the British Army, and Cossack ataman Pyotr Krasnov served the Germans and later Hitler’s Germany, and suggested that such figures should not be viewed as examples of patriotism.
Kurginyan emphasized that in the pre-revolutionary period, in the period of the Russian Empire’s greatness, there are many names “reverent to the Russian heart and without the imprint of this problematic collaborationism caused by tragic circumstances.”
“Don’t we have Admiral Ushakov, Admiral Nakhimov, Admiral Kornilov? Do we not have Suvorov, Kutuzov, Alexander Nevsky? We don’t have anyone else! Skobelev! Even Potemkin. We have these very heroes of the pre-Soviet period, which are dear to someone’s heart, a lot of them, who are not involved in this collaborationism,” – said the leader of the Essence of Time movement.
In his memoirs, M. D. Bonch-Bruyevich later wrote: “More by instinct than by reason, I was drawn to the Bolsheviks, seeing them as the only force capable of saving Russia from collapse and complete destruction.”
Source: Rossa Primavera News Agency
