What are the main reasons for the victory of the "reds"?

When the formation changes in the country, the view of the past also changes. Moreover, there is a temptation to distort historical facts in favor of the existing ideology. But, as we know, facts are a stubborn thing. The reasons for the victory of the "reds" in the Civil War are more than convincing.

Leaders of "white" and "red"

An opinion is expressed that the "reds" won because they lost the "white". They could not win. This demoralized demoralized army, not united by a common idea, is well illustrated in the film "Two Lives." And no matter how much they ennoble the representatives of the White movement, they, as Lenin said in relation to completely different people, are "terribly far from the people."

No matter how sorry Kolchak, who was shot and drowning in the icy water, no matter how disgusting the red commander who lights a cannon from a silver cigarette case of a man just shot by him, the death of a white officer was incapable of uniting and raising troops for the offensive and driving them to the Pacific Ocean. And Chapaev's death could.

Aversion to your own people

The reasons for the victory of the "reds" can be listed and listed. But the most important of them is ideology. The Bolsheviks managed to convince the masses that they were right, that the bright future was behind them. After all, they did not go to the Red Army with the goal of enriching and robbing, and there were no apolitical people or pacifists in it. People were going to die, defending their ideas with the price of life. Such an army, especially if it managed to establish work in the rear, to ensure strict discipline, is invincible. "White" had nothing to oppose to such an idea, which Mayakovsky said best of all: "Our mouth was flooded with lead and tin." Renounce! "- roared, but only three words from burning sips:" Long live communism! "And about the white The terror of humane imperial officers, poured their mouths with lead and tin? They poured in. Were they hated to the teeth of the gnashing of the "rednecks"? They hated it with such a sense of the world.

Facts are a very stubborn thing

To search for the reasons for the victory of the "reds" is not necessary, they can only be ascertained, relying on the classics: "The lower classes did not want to live the old way." Of course, one of the weighty reasons is the presence of a leader, in our case a leader. We will not touch the person himself, but what he was for the Red Army, for the entire population of post-revolutionary Russia, photographs and documentary shots of Lenin's funeral are best descendants. Who else in the world was so seen off on the last journey? No one. Even the funeral of Bauman, when all of Moscow came out in 1905 to the streets, is just a hint of grief that swept the country in the winter of 1924. This can not be imagined. It is, of course, possible to declare a people, like "white-bottlers" do it, drunk. It is in this approach to the interests of the overwhelming majority of the country's population that we must look for the reasons for the victory of the "reds" in the Civil War, in which, as some say, there are no winners. This view of the problem from space is akin to the reasoning that everyone has his own truth. But the truth is always one. To despise your own people, considering it a "cattle", is bad.

In addition, the white movement did not have a leader. In the "nobility" it will never be - they are all godlike, it is impossible to find the worthiest. In Russia there have always been troubled times, until a leader appeared, beyond which one could or needed to go into the fire and into the water. With the advent of the leader, Rus blossomed. This is one of the answers to the question, why the "reds" won.

The "whites" had no allies

In addition, the Entente countries, supposedly helping the White movement, did not do this (in the proper quantities, neither weapons nor supplies were supplied). They rather discredited the white movement in the eyes of the majority of the population. Assistance was not included in the plans of the interventionists, their aim was to undermine Russia or completely destroy it. The more Russians kill each other, the better. Now, after a century, despite all the reservations and distortions, we know that, having won the victory, the Bolsheviks not only held it, but also built a powerful power that managed to defeat Hitler, the leader of the nation to whom the Germans prayed. The conclusion is one - the truth was on their side, that's why the "reds" won.

Voluntary, but not competent

It can be said that among the White Guards there was no commonality, there were monarchists who supported the Provisional Government and also "every creature in the pair": anarchists, kulaks who fought only for their own piece of land, with which the idea of a "united and indivisible Russia" Was not needed at all.

And many nationalists this idea irritated and repelled the white movement. In the rear of the White Guards, many gangs raged: "green", "black" and other atamans who plundered the population and set it up against the authorities, who can not bring order to the controlled territories. Yes, these are also the reasons for the victory of the Red Army and the defeat of the White movement. But they look, rather, aggravating circumstances. The main thing is that the White Guards fought not for the Great Homeland (they will write a poem about Russia, they will sing about the gold epaulettes - and it seems to become easier), but they fought with the hated "reds" in smelly dresses that are peeling seeds.

The All-conquering Idea

And the Red Army was already strong, clean and victorious. And the reasons for the victory of the "red" movement, as already noted above, in a high and beautiful idea. They fought for the Motherland, in which, after the victory, all will be equal and happy. In this struggle for a bright future, all layers of the population, the best representatives of all classes, who could go for the sake of the idea and the inconvenience, and the sacrifices, were involved. Very quickly, the sabotage of officials was stopped, a class of state Soviet employees arose, the slogan "everything for the front, everything for victory" worked. Of course, all the factories remained in the territory controlled by the Bolsheviks. But they earned because the workers were "red." It is very bad when a brother goes to war with his brother when the country is tormented by civil war. Why won the "red"? Because the overwhelming majority of the population of the country was with the Bolsheviks or sympathized with them.