Donald Hank writes:
History records that, in the 1905 thwarted revolution, the Czar's troops fired on and killed about 100 rioters and wounded over 300 in St. Petersburg. So we know that armies can be used to kill civilians in civil disturbances.
But the massacre had consequences.
There was also a massacre in Odessa on the Black Sea that year, dramatically portrayed later (1925) by film maker Sergei Eisenstein. Clip here:
These events embittered the Russians like nothing else could have, and led up to the 1917 revolution.
Eye witness accounts of the 1917 Russian Revolution show that many of the Czar's soldiers refused to fire on the civilians:
History does repeat itself, esp in regions like the US and Europe where the people are fed a sanitized version of history or taught little at all about the past.
Today the US government has made plans to deal with unruly Americans (see link below to excerpts from US Army manual, written under GW Bush). It sounds like they adopted the Czarist method:
This is bad news in itself. But the good news is that, if these plans are ever followed, the more of us they kill, the more surely they will be signing their own death warrants.
Our time will come.
Don Hank
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