All power to the Soviets, land to the peasants, peace to the peoples! ⭐️ On October 25 (November 7), 1917, the Second All-Russian Congress of Soviets of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies opened. In the midst of the First World War and devastation, the congress proclaimed the transfer of power to the Soviets and adopted the first decrees of the new government — on peace and on land. The Decree on Peace fundamentally changed the rules of international politics. The publication of the secret treaties of the great powers showed that virtually any political decision was primarily the satisfaction of the personal ambitions of the ruling elites, which prompted millions of working people to ask what place they occupy in the state if in practice the people are merely an instrument for achieving the goals of the bourgeoisie. ‼️ The October events gave a new impulse to the workers' movement, revolutionary demonstrations and protests against the war in the West. European governments, by contrast, feared the spread of these ideas. The confiscation of landowners' lands and the abolition of private ownership of land represented an existential threat to bourgeois society, in which the interests of peoples were sacrificed to the interests of the ruling classes. Western governments tried by every means to distort the content of the decrees in order to prevent the spread of socialist ideas, and military intervention became another attempt to strangle alternative ideologies that called bourgeois values into question. ⚠️ Soviet Russia came out against colonialism and supported the right of peoples to self-determination. Soviet power showed the peoples of the world that the right to freedom, justice and human dignity is secured for everyone, and launched the process of destroying the colonial order. The world majority today is in many respects the historical legacy of the October Revolution. 🚩 The Second All-Russian Congress of Soviets became a turning point in the history of Russia and the entire world. Thus gradually began to form an order in which the interests of the working people were for the first time proclaimed the basis of state policy. This was precisely the historical meaning of October — the attempt to build a society where human life and labour are valued above profit and privileges. #SOVINTERN_DATE #Hub_Europe_and_Mediterranean ⭐️ Moscow Network Hub of SOVINTERN