The soviets had known almost nothing but continuous war since 1914. I get the sentiment and the politics, but it seems cruel to tell two generations of militant revolutionaries that their grandchildren should continue marching and fighting and killing and dying for a world none of them will get to actually enjoy.
The Soviet Movement began as a Global Peace Movement. A rebellion against all the senseless slaughter of Crimea and Russio-Japan and the Congo and the Eastern Front.
At some point, they couldn't just be an economy of death. They needed to build something better.
The soviets had known almost nothing but continuous war since 1914. I get the sentiment and the politics, but it seems cruel to tell two generations of militant revolutionaries that their grandchildren should continue marching and fighting and killing and dying for a world none of them will get to actually enjoy.
The Soviet Movement began as a Global Peace Movement. A rebellion against all the senseless slaughter of Crimea and Russio-Japan and the Congo and the Eastern Front.
At some point, they couldn't just be an economy of death. They needed to build something better.