Mandate Protesters Are Justin Trudeau’s Mensheviks

Vladimir Lenin in 1903 used the term “Bolsheviks” to exaggerate the size of the support for his political faction, which was small, and used the term “Mensheviks” to minimize the number of his political opponents, who heavily outnumbered his faction.

In 1898, Russian Marxists had organized the Russian Social-Democratic Labour Party; this was illegal in tsarist Russia itself, as were all political parties. A congress was organized but had only nine socialist attendees at most, and these were quickly arrested. In 1903, the Party held a second congress to debate events and actions with just over fifty people. Here, Vladimir Lenin (1870–1924) argued for a party composed only of professional revolutionaries, to give the movement a core of experts rather than a mass of amateurs; he was opposed by a faction led by Julius or L. Martov (two pseudonyms of Yuly Osipovich Tsederbaum 1873–1923) who wanted a model of mass membership like other, western European social-democratic parties.

The result was a division between the two camps. Lenin and his supporters gained a majority on the central committee and, even though it was only a temporary majority and his faction was firmly in the minority, they took for themselves the name Bolshevik, meaning ‘Those of the Majority.’ Their opponents, the faction led by Martov, thus became known as Mensheviks, ‘Those of the Minority,’ despite being the overall larger faction [emphasis added].

“Who Were the Mensheviks and Bolsheviks?” – ThoughtCo

Fast-forward 119 years to see Justin Trudeau refer to a Guinness-record-breaking convoy of truckers opposed to his COVID-19 mandates as a “small fringe minority”:

Solzhenitsyn Warned about the Interdependency of Lies and Violence

Look at what Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wrote about the interdependency of lies (he called them “falsehood”) and violence:

We shall be told: what can literature possibly do against the ruthless onslaught of open violence? But let us not forget that violence does not live alone and is not capable of living alone: it is necessarily interwoven with falsehood. Between them lies the most intimate, the deepest of natural bonds. Violence finds its only refuge in falsehood, falsehood its only support in violence. Any man who has once acclaimed violence as his method must inexorably choose falsehood as his principle. … Proverbs about truth are well-loved in Russian. They give steady and sometimes striking expression to the not inconsiderable harsh national experience: one word of truth shall outweigh the whole world. And it is here, on an imaginary fantasy, a breach of the principle of the conservation of mass and energy, that I base both my own activity and my appeal to the writers of the world.

The Gulag Archipelago, Volume 1, pp 21-22 of “About the book: Written in Secret: The Nobel Lecture“

Solzhenitsyn Warned about the Danger of Censorship

Look at what Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wrote about censorship:

Contemporary science knows that suppression of information leads to entropy and total destruction. Suppression of information renders international signatures and agreements illusory; within a muffled zone it costs nothing to reinterpret any agreement, even simpler–to forget it, as though it had never really existed. (Orwell understood this supremely.) A muffled zone is, as it were, populated not by inhabitants of the Earth, but by an expeditionary corps from Mars; the people know nothing intelligent about the rest of the Earth and are prepared to go and trample it down in the holy conviction that they come as “liberators.”

The Gulag Archipelago, Volume 1, p 17 of “About the book: Written in Secret: The Nobel Lecture“

Solzhenitsyn Warned about Communists’ Desire for One-World Government

Look at what Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wrote about the “leveling of nations”:

In recent times it has been fashionable to talk of the leveling of nations, of the disappearance of different races in the melting-pot of contemporary civilization. I do not agree with this opinion, but its discussion remains another question. Here it is merely fitting to say that the disappearance of nations would have impoverished us no less than if all men had become alike, with one personality and one face. Nations are the wealth of mankind, its collective personalities; the very least of them wears its own special colors and bears within itself a special facet of divine intention.

The Gulag Archipelago, Volume 1, p 13 of “About the book: Written in Secret: The Nobel Lecture“