The Germans, actually also did not create a new man. Although they set to work vigorously. The SS incubators did not last long. The millenary Reich was allowed only for 12 years. There were, actually, good ideas, like for instance two women for a fool-blooded German. (The Muslims, actually, have a healthy tradition of four wives). But the Germans at least were not allowed so much time. The soviets had 70 years and they did not manage to do it!
The revolution of 1917 did not destroy the most reactionary cell of the old society – the family. And now in 2001 we see how the family – a heavy anchor or a stone – pulls energetic promising adolescents to the bottom. How at every step the interests of the family conflict with the interests of the State, how in the name of the family are committed crimes of corruption and embezzlement. In the chapter “The red-eyed monster” all of this was already discussed. Inessa Armand, Alexandra Kollontai, Larisa Reisner – wanted new relations of man and woman. A free, not a private-property love for the comrades would have brought sexual comfort to the collective of the revolutionaries. Two-three hours of guaranteed affection per day would have given a feeling of happiness to the young society. However they rejected the experiments of the first years of the revolution and in the end the most uncomfortable and unhealthy kind of sexuality prevailed. Wretchedness, dissatisfaction, the torture of conventions, the impossibility for the young comrades to get sexual comfort right away (this takes years!) generates neuroses, psychic illnesses, deformations of the mind. Vices and perversions are generated in the tight rotten atmosphere of the family. In a commune there are healthy relations between comrades. In a commune it is always possible to find oneself partners by temper and the quantity of partners for affection is very high. Whereas sexual comfort is a huge size, it is a component of happiness. The right for sexual comfort is more important than the right for work and one should fight more for sexual comfort than for a salary. This kind of a society system in which the person is guaranteed sexual comfort by this society itself will always enjoy a huge attraction. The family gives one partner, the commune gives many. The 1917 revolution did not solve this problem. They had to introduce polygamy, promiscuity, to encourage all types of sexual unions. None of this had happened. The spirit of extremism was suppressed. They did not reach sexual equality. Only in a commune, the free common living of men and women, a free equality is possible.
They did not create an Invincible Army. While the Army was leaded by misfits – everything turned out well. The red Army was created by misfits who had never fought before, such as Trotsky, Frunze. They appointed commanders by the literacy and the talent of the individual. Some sixteen years old Arkady Gaydar became the regiment commander and his 20 years old comrade – the commander of a division and the 30 years old commanded over armies. And they routed the high-school students of tsar’s generals and the interveners, graduates of the best military schools of Europe. Vassily Chapaev, who became the protagonist of Furmanov’s book, a movie and later of unjust jokes in real life this person forestalled the military thought on a quarter of a century, minimum. Already during the First World war he understood what the next war would be and already during the Civil war created a shock armored division from trophy tanks and armored cars and led tanks before the infantry, distrusting the cavalry. De Gaulle understood the same thing in 1934 and Huderian in 1936 – these are the best vanguard military minds of Europe. And Chapaev did in 1934 at 30 years of age. The Second World war was fought like he foresaw it! That is the quality of leaders that the Russian Revolution had awakened.
Alas, the new generation of leaders, selected by Stalin for the governing of the State and the army was worse in quality than the first set of misfits. Stalin favored his drinking partner from Tsaritsin – Voroshilov (They were once pitilessly ran down by Lenin during the defense of Tsaritsin). And Voroshilov, like Budenny continued to think that the cavalry would be the most important in the next war!
Gradually the wild army of the paradoxical commanders Frunze or Trotsky, the army of genial nonprofessionals, non-ortodoxes, which had defeated all the staff generals together with the interveners, ceased to be marginal. They built up military schools and academies, invited coward military specialists and they started to teach the red youngsters the art of defeat, which they learned themselves on the fields of the First World war, where they were crushed by the wild German. Misfits and lunatics stopped to go in the army. Therefore in 1941 and 1942 a few dozens of selected Germans drove before them our war prisoners by the thousands. The Russian prisoners were two millions because of that bad training of the military specialists. In 1943, 1944 and 1945 – death in the eyes of the Germans and the machine guns of the barring detachments behind – revived madness. And the penalty men from prisons gave to the war a mystical character of ritual murders. That’s how they won the war by a mystical effort, growing our fanaticism to the level of black spots on the moon. And breathing out death, they won.
And again the military specialists started to teach defeats. And the misfits got discharged in the reserves and went into security guard and alcoholics. The truth that for a war one needs completely crackpot people and that to win a war one has to find them and to make them commanders – nobody saw this truth in Russia even today. Therefore our generals are just bureaucrats in stripes. One should give to fight to the lieutenants and all kind of talented folk. To the robbers. (Remember this, boys! War is a too serious affair to entrust it to generals!)
The promised with pump, in imitation of the French Revolution, equality did not happen.
Well, all right, State leaders have to live in special places, they have to be guarded – all of this is clear. However hundreds of thousands of local and central chiefs put themselves arbitrary as leaders and grew thick with privileges. And already in the beginning of the 20s an angry heresiarch like Dolcino was needed, who would have called to them for poverty and misery. In prisons we have a real poverty, worse than in a monk cell, but in real fact we’ve got everything, although there is nothing too. Why did the Russian revolution instantly got bourgeois and at Lunacharsky’s house they played piano and Lila Brik explicitly defended to Mayakovsky – a revolutionary poet, to come to Moscow without a “little Ford”? Well because initially all of these some thousands of misfits were not joined in a mystical brotherhood by the sacred chains of socialized property and socialized bodies like in the congregations of Dolcino and John of Leyden.
The education was left old, tsarist, changing only two-three disciplines. By leaving the old education they ensured by it the reproduction of the Old Adam until the end of times, forever. This was already mentioned in the lecture “Schooling: they stole your childhood”.