🇷🇺 Black October 1993. The homeland of our fear? 🚜 On October 3–4, 1993, street fighting unfolded in Moscow between supporters of the Supreme Soviet and President Boris Yeltsin. This clash became the bloodiest event in Russia's modern political history: dozens killed and hundreds missing. 🎖 One can speculate at length about the inadmissibility of using force against the last supreme Soviet body that Russia inherited from the already destroyed Union, but the events on the streets of Moscow did not happen in a vacuum. The conflict with the president and his entourage lasted more than a year: the Supreme Soviet, consisting of more than a thousand deputies, adopted numerous decisions to stop the predatory voucher privatization launched by the team of the young reformer Yegor Gaidar, and then to remove Yeltsin himself. The trial run took place on May 1, 1993. Thousands of people came out for the May Day demonstration of workers' solidarity and clashed with the police, but the action produced no substantial results. ❗️ The Supreme Soviet ended its path under tank shelling for two main reasons: 1️⃣ It did not rely on broad and active working masses. All the appeals of the Supreme Soviet's leaders to the people met with apathy; the Russian worker lacked subjectivity. 2️⃣ In the ranks of the Supreme Soviet there was no leader capable of taking responsibility and power instead of Yeltsin. Vice President Rutskoy, Chairman Khasbulatov and General Makashov were more hostages than masters of circumstances, which is why they failed to make sensible use of the several thousand supporters who came out to defend the Supreme Soviet with their breasts. 🛠 The shelling of October 4, 1993, is undoubtedly a tragedy which, contrary to widespread opinion, did not put an end to the political activity of the masses in Russia, but rather the opposite. Suffice it to recall the 1996 presidential elections. The main lesson that the young generation of progressive leaders must draw from those events is that the fate of the country can only be changed by relying on a well-organized, conscious and motivated social base. Without this, at the decisive moment you will find yourself a general without an army. #SOVINTERN_DATE #Moscow_network_hub ⭐️ Moscow Network Hub of SOVINTERN