YOU CAN'T REHABILITATE AN ANARCHIST -
MOSCOW, JAN.10,1994
Almost 73 years after the slaughter of the Kronstadt rebels, Moscow has decided that they were the victims of political repression.
As yet another part of an assinine flow of symbolic gesture against the legacy of the communist past, President Boris Yeltsin has decided to officially "rehabilitate" the participants in the 1921 Kronstadt uprising. This includes restoring full legal rights to all those repressed. Thanks a lot, Borya.
At a press conference held today, Alexander Yakovlev released documents that proved that the Kronstadt uprising was a rebellion against Bolshevik power and not a rebellion supported by the Whites and Western imperialists. No shit Alex - tell us something we didn't know. Yakovlev stressed that the lesson of the Kronstadt rebeliion is that political repression did not begin with Stalin. "Stalin just continued doing what Lenin was already doing."
(We hope that historians of the future will draw the same conclusions and figure out that Zhirinovsky was just a continuation of Tsar Boris.)
It is important to note that this rehabilitation is merely part of a sophisticated ploy carried out by Yeltsin to make him seem morally superior to all things associated with the Soviet government. The important thing is not historical accuracy, but discrediting Soviet power down to the very foundation, as one can discern from Yakovlev's statement that, "It is important to remember Kronstadt now, when people are becoming nostalgic for the old days". Yeltsin, has taenkg an unprecendented number of moves against the symbols of the past and has lamented the tragedy of communism mostly in effort to drum up public sentiment against his opposition. We think it's funny that someone who himself sends the army against a rebellion should label the same thing "political repression". If the anarchists of Kronstadt were alive today, they'd probably have their guns pointed at you Boris Yeltsin!
We want you to know, Boris Nikolayevich, that you have more opposition than just those commie and fascist hacks. You can shove your rehabilitation up your ass - down with all political repressors and tyrants! Death to the dictators, to those that take power through coup d'etats after making speeches upon armoured vehicles. We have your number Yeltsin, you pig scum. You ain't no better - blood is on your hands.
Yeltsin plans to erect a monument in Kronstadt, to the victims of the events. I think he should put one up around the White House.
If he only knew that the spirit of Kronstadt lives on, he wouldn't erect a monument.
You can't rehabilitate an anarchist. FIND YOURSELF SOME OTHER MARTYRS! ANARCHISTS HATE ALL TYRANTS - INCLUDING YOU, YOU MOTHERFUCKER! LONG LIVE THE SPIRIT OF KRONSTADT!
Spunk Anarchist Collective.