On this day in 1917, the "July Days" began in Petrograd, Russia when soldiers, sailors, and workers took up arms against the Russian Provisional Government, chanting "All Power to the Soviets" and holding Viktor Chernov hostage.
The July Days took place in the context of growing discontent against the Provisional Government and increasing support for the Bolsheviks. A few months earlier, Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin gave his "April Theses", coming out in support of an armed, proletarian insurrection. By July, rank-and-file Bolsheviks were advocating overthrowing the Provisional Government.
On the morning of July 16th, after a disastrous offensive on World War I's Eastern Front, armed soldiers and workers marched through the streets of Petrograd, to the Tauride Palace. These demonstrators marched under the slogan "All Power to the Soviets", firing their rifles into the air and commandeering vehicles.
The following day at Tauride Palace, the crowd demanded to see a government official, and the Soviet Leaders sent out Viktor Chernov, a prominent member of the Socialist-Revolutionary Party. When he tried to calm the crowd, they seized him instead, with one protester famously shouting, "Take power, you son of a bitch, when it is handed to you!" He was released upon the urging on Leon Trotsky.
The military authorities sent troops against the demonstrators, leading to many arrests and deaths. The government disarmed workers, disbanded revolutionary military units, destroyed the headquarters of the Bolshevik Central Committee were destroyed, and ordered the arrest of Lenin, Trotsky, and other Bolshevik leaders.
Lenin was able to flee to Finland, while Trotsky was arrested alongside Anatoly Lunacharsky and Lev Kamenev. Although the Bolshevik Party's power was temporarily limited in the crackdown, they came to power in the October Revolution just a few months later.
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My 13 mo old nephew has been sick for a week. We thought he just had a bug he couldn't shake, but my brother and sister in law took him to the hospital because he wasn't keeping fluids down, and it turns out he has a giant tumor in his brain. Got the mri results back today, and it's huge and it's spread out too, to the point that it's going to take an 8 hour surgery tomorrow, and they don't think they'll be able to get it all, so they're planning on a recovery day and then a 2nd brain surgery on Wednesday to get the rest of it. We won't know for sure what kind of tumor it is until it gets biopsied, but they're so sure he's going to need chemo that they're going to go ahead and put in a port while they've already got him under for surgery. He's so small and he has no idea what's happening to him, and I wish it was me instead. God, I wish it was me instead. A friend of mine died of brain cancer when we were 16, and the last time I saw him was in the hospital the day before he died. He suffered so much and now all those memories are flooding back. The thought of my nephew going through the same thing I saw with my friend is unbearable.
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That is unspeakably awful and completely unfair, comrade - "I'm sorry" doesn't do it justice, but it's what I've got. Sending a lot of love and solidarity to you right now.
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that is a lot of brain cancers to encounter in one lifetime
It really is. At first, they figured out at the hospital that there was fluid putting pressure in his brain, so we were thinking meningitis maybe because of they symptoms he'd been having. Never even thought that it could be cancer.