Various Tyrannies

Russians have lived under various forms of tyranny in the 20th century. First the tyranny of the Czars and their dreaded secret police, the Okhrana.

Then that of the provisional government of 1917 which prolonged Russian participation in World War 1 and prosecuted those who wanted to end it.

Next of course were the Bolsheviks who, though ending the war, employed officials of the Okhrana and instituted a ruthless police state.

Now the Russian people have supposedly a democratic form of government, but, nevertheless, gangsters have enormous power economically, which they use to gain political influence.

Capitalism can be administrated in various ways but all of them are, to one extent or another, tyrannical. Another good reason to abolish it. 

John Ayers.