30 August 1946 – Konstantin Vladimirovich Rodzaevsky
Hot on the Russian heels of leftie Grigory Zinoviev comes extreme right-winger Konstantin Vladimirovich Rodzaevsky. And what do you know; Stalin was once again responsible for the fascist’s demise.
Right-winging it
Sick of the grip of egalitarian politics, Rodzaevsky tried to overthrow the Bolsheviks with his brand of anti-Semitic right-wing activity while in exile. But he needn’t have bothered – ultimately he was to hand himself in, in 1945 after he rightly began to suspect that Stalin was right-wing enough for the both of them.
‘I failed to see that, by the will of Fate, of his own genius, and of millions of toilers, Comrade J V Stalin…had become this unknown leader.’
Promises, promises
Well, you’ve seen Stalin’s government in action, so it must come as no surprise to find out that promises of a release and a job on a newspaper were empty indeed.
In actual fact Rodzaevsky was arrested, found guilty of crimes against the state and met his seedy end in a Lubyanka cellar with a bullet embedded in his brain. He met a similar fate to that of Tsar Nicholas II and his family, who met their untimely ends 28 years previously.
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November 19 at 9:55 pm
“He was shot in Lubyanka – the same place where Tsar Nicholas II and his family met their untimely ends”
This is nonsense. Nicholas II and family were shot in Yeksterinburg, more than 1000 miles away.
November 23 at 1:57 pm
Hello,
You’re absolutely right and thanks for taking the trouble to post a note. It was a case of supremely shoddy editing on my part – sorry about that. Post updated accordingly.
Cheers, Mel