Dennis Prager Show - It Doesn't Take a Majority for Evil to Prevail
Aired: 2025-05-24
Duration: 02:58


=== Bolsheviks and Minority Nik (02:58) ===

[00:00:00]  It doesn't take a majority for evil to prevail.
[00:00:09]  Truly significant.
[00:00:11]  I learned this in the field that I studied, communism.
[00:00:18]  If you don't know what I'm about to say, you'll find this fascinating.
[00:00:21]  You probably have heard of the Bolsheviks.
[00:00:23]  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.
[00:00:35]  The Bolsheviks were the first group of communists, and they took over after the Second Russian Revolution.
[00:00:45]  The first was February, and the next was October.
[00:00:51]  I think that's according to the old calendar, but it doesn't matter.
[00:00:54]  The same year.
[00:00:55]  So there was a democratic revolution and then a communist revolution in 1917.
[00:01:04]  The Bolsheviks, headed by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, took over.
[00:01:10]  Now here's the point, and this is so germane to what you're seeing.
[00:01:21]  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.
[00:01:34]  Bolshoi means big.
[00:01:38]  So the Bolshevik was the big or majority nik.
[00:01:45]  And here's the key.
[00:01:46]  They were in the minority.
[00:01:49]  The majority got the name Menshevik, the folks who were much more pro-freedom, democracy, etc., etc.
[00:02:01]  They were in the majority, but they got the name Minority Nik.
[00:02:06]  Menshe is, means less in Russian.
[00:02:11]  So the big nik was the little nik, and the little nik was the big nik.
[00:02:20]  But it worked.
[00:02:22]  It worked.
[00:02:24]  The minority took over.
[00:02:27]  Same in Germany.
[00:02:30]  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.
[00:02:46]  It was a minority of Germans who voted for the Nazis.
[00:02:52]  But they took over.
[00:02:56]  This is the great lesson.