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May 24, 2025 - Dennis Prager Show
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It Doesn't Take a Majority for Evil to Prevail
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It doesn't take a majority for evil to prevail.
Truly significant.
I learned this in the field that I studied, communism.
If you don't know what I'm about to say, you'll find this fascinating.
You probably have heard of the Bolsheviks.
That was the first name of the communists of Russia, turned Russia into the Russian Empire into the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics or the Soviet Union.
The Bolsheviks were the first group of communists, and they took over after the Second Russian Revolution.
The first was February, and the next was October.
I think that's according to the old calendar, but it doesn't matter.
The same year.
So there was a democratic revolution and then a communist revolution in 1917.
The Bolsheviks, headed by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, took over.
Now here's the point, and this is so germane to what you're seeing.
The word Bolshevik comes from the Russian word Bolshoi, like in Bolshoi Ballet, that you may have heard of, the most famous ballet company in the world.
Bolshoi means big.
So the Bolshevik was the big or majority nik.
And here's the key.
They were in the minority.
The majority got the name Menshevik, the folks who were much more pro-freedom, democracy, etc., etc.
They were in the majority, but they got the name Minority Nik.
Menshe is, means less in Russian.
So the big nik was the little nik, and the little nik was the big nik.
But it worked.
It worked.
The minority took over.
Same in Germany.
They were not the majority party in the 1932 elections, the last free elections in Germany until the end, until World War II had ended in 1945.
It was a minority of Germans who voted for the Nazis.
But they took over.
This is the great lesson.
It doesn't take many for great evil to take place.
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