Today is the anniversary of the Bolshevik October Revolution, November 7th (October 25th according to the Julian calendar) the anniversary of the most tragic date in recent centuries in the history of Russia and the Russian people today we remember the consequences of the violent seizure of power by the Bolsheviks: 1. To the betrayal of the Russian army, fighting an external aggressor, and to the signing of the Brest-Litovsk peace treaty, according to which the Bolsheviks gave up huge areas of European Russia, with a third of the population and a significant part of the industry and arable land. 2. to destroy the fragile social peace in Russia. The Bolsheviks consistently provoked a "class" civil war, which they eventually achieved. About 13 million people became victims of the civil war unleashed by the Bolsheviks in Russia: - 2 million died on the battlefields from all sides - up to 2 million victims of the Red Terror *.
- 5.5 million victims of the famine in the Volga region, which was the result of the policy of war communism.
- 3.5 million victims of epidemics as a result of famine 3. Bolshevik terror* was carried out mainly in relation to the most educated, cultured and prosperous strata (in relation to the best human capital), Russia suffered irreversible intellectual losses. By the end of the civil war, only 40% of the representatives of the Russian educated stratum remained in the territory of the Soviet Union, and the Russian national elite was almost completely destroyed: culturally, militarily and administratively. More than 2 million Russians were forced to flee Russia from Bolshevik oppression. About a million more Russians arrived abroad in Poland, the Baltic states and Finland 4. for an extreme reduction in the quality of the management layer. Places in the new Bolshevik hierarchy were often occupied by uneducated people, convicts, outcasts, armed and terrorists, in short, all the evil spirits that rose from below during the so-called revolution 5. To the sevenfold decrease in industrial production in Russia in the first years of Bolshevism, to the destruction of commerce, economy and industry. 6.