Two Quotes that explain the Russian Revolution

“You must understand. The leading Bolsheviks who took over Russia were not Russians. They hated Russians. They hated Christians. Driven by ethnic hatred they tortured and slaughtered millions of Russians without a shred of human remorse. The October Revolution was not what you call in America the “Russian Revolution.” It was an invasion and conquest over the Russian people. More of my countrymen suffered horrific crimes at their bloodstained hands than any people or nation ever suffered in the entirety of human history. It cannot be understated. Bolshevism was the greatest human slaughter of all time. The fact that most of the world is ignorant of this reality is proof that the global media itself is in the hands of the perpetrators.”
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Biographical: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1970/solzhenitsyn/biographical/

“We must turn Russia into a desert inhabited by white Negroes, to whom we will give a tyranny such as has never been dreamed of by the most terrible despots of the East. The only difference is that this tyranny will not be on the right, but on the left, not white, but red. In the literal sense of the word red, because we will shed such streams of blood, before which all the human losses of capitalist wars will shudder and pale. The largest bankers from overseas will work in close contact with us. If we win the revolution, if we crush Russia, we will strengthen the power of Zionism on the funeral ruins of it. We will show you what real power is. By means of terror and bloodbaths we shall bring the Russian intelligentsia to a complete stupor, to idiocy, to an animal state.”
Leon Trotsky
Biographical: https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/leon-trotsky/