By Stanislav Mishin
These days, there are few things to
admire about the socialist, bankrupt and culturally degenerating USA,
but at least so far, one thing remains: the right to bear arms and use
deadly force to defend one's self and possessions.
This will probably come as a total shock
to most of my Western readers, but at one point, Russia was one of the
most heavily armed societies on earth. This was, of course, when we were
free under the Tsar. Weapons, from swords and spears to pistols, rifles
and shotguns were everywhere, common items. People carried them
concealed, they carried them holstered. Fighting knives were a prominent
part of many traditional attires and those little tubes criss crossing
on the costumes of Cossacks and various Caucasian peoples? Well those
are bullet holders for rifles.
Various armies, such as the Poles,
during the Смута (Times of Troubles), or Napoleon, or the Germans even
as the Tsarist state collapsed under the weight of WW1 and Wall Street
monies, found that holding Russian lands was much much harder than
taking them and taking was no easy walk in the park but a blood bath all
its own. In holding, one faced an extremely well armed and aggressive
population Hell bent on exterminating or driving out the aggressor.
This well armed population was what
allowed the various White factions to rise up, no matter how
disorganized politically and militarily they were in 1918 and wage a
savage civil war against the Reds. It should be noted that many of these
armies were armed peasants, villagers, farmers and merchants,
protecting their own. If it had not been for Washington's clandestine
support of and for the Reds, history would have gone quite differently.
Moscow fell, for example, not from a
lack of weapons to defend it, but from the lying guile of the Reds. Ten
thousand Reds took Moscow and were opposed only by some few hundreds of
officer cadets and their instructors. Even then the battle was fierce
and losses high. However, in the city alone, at that time, lived over
30,000 military officers (both active and retired), all with their own
issued weapons and ammunition, plus tens of thousands of other citizens
who were armed. The Soviets promised to leave them all alone if they did
not intervene. They did not and for that were asked afterwards to come
register themselves and their weapons: where they were promptly shot.
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