The people of Russia suffered just as much. To feed the urban workers and maintain war production, peasants were forced to hand over their grain surpluses at prices determined by the state. Those who resisted were shot.
Whole villages were wiped out if they failed to hand over their grain to the Checka.
In the worst cases, they also removed the seed grain the peasants needed for planting the following year. At a time of rebellion and drought, this desperate policy lead to another five million deaths.
Trotsky put it in such terms, of the Civil War, 'We got victory in the Civil War, the price was we ruined the country.'
Continued: Soviet Democracy, Conditions begin to deteriorate between the Soldiers of Kronstadt and the Bolshevik elite.
Previous: The Red Army, America, Britain and Japan send support for the White Army to fight the Bolshevik Red Army. The Civil War claims millions of lives, but the Allies feel it is a war they cannot win and pull out, leaving Russia in the hand of the Bolsheviks.
References
Russian Revolution in Color (DVD)
The Russian Revolution and Civil War, this bloodsoaked time from the battlefields, testimonies, and colorized archives help unfold the dramatic story of the Communist rise and seizure of power in 1917.
Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression Meticulously detailing Communism's crimes from Russia in 1917 to Afghanistan in 1989, the soul-destroying connections between Marxist idealism and the violence committed in the name of Communism, a damning reckoning with a cumulative toll of victims under communist rule, estimated by the authors at between 85 and 100 million victims, dwarfs even the crimes of the Nazis. Concluding, they wonder forcefully why such "class genocide" is excused more easily than the Nazis' "race genocide."
Karl Marx Created Adolf Hitler
Jim Jones was a Communist
Hitler, Messiah
Jones' Lawyer: Jim Jones was Atheist
Thousand Dollar Question
Will somebody please point out where either term, "Create" or "Design," even appear in the text of Genesis, Epoch Three, related to the introduction of algae around hydrothermal vents on early earth, including forms of soft bodied, non-photosynthetic plant-life?
Genesis 1:11 And God said, Let the earth bring forth (tender) grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.
Genesis 1:12 And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed
after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself,
after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
Genesis 1:13 And the evening and the morning were the third day.
