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Bolsheviks and Minority Nik
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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. | |