#czarism

By Stephen Millies

104 years ago, on Nov. 7, 1917, workers and peasants overthrew the capitalist government in Russia. The world hasn’t been the same since.

Two million soldiers in the Russian army had died in World War I. Russia was ruled by the cruel Czar Nicholas II. Like the United States, the Russian Empire was a big prison of oppressed nationalities.

‘This will be with all thrones’

A remarkable picture from 1924. It reads “This will be with all thrones.”

Leader of the Communist Party of Guadeloupe (Caribbean French colony) Joseph Gothon-Lunion – on the Russian Emperors’ throne (in museum). 

Gothon-Lunion was a delegate of the Fifth Comintern Congress in Moscow. 

As the Soviet press, which widely distributed the picture, commented, “The picture should tell what will be the destiny of all exploiters in Europe, America and colonial Africa.”

Peterhof, in Russian Петерхоф, is famous for being the Russian Versailles. A series of palaces, gardens and fountains designed by the orders of Peter the Great to compete with the beauty of Versailles; continually improved by his daughter, the Empress Elizabeth.

Peterhof is also known as Petrodvorets (Петродворец). As Peterhof sounds German, its name was changed after World War II.

Grand Cascade…