Communists Never Have The Majority
The word “Bolshevik” comes from bolshinstvo — “the majority.” Lenin’s faction never once held one. In Russia’s only free election, November 1917, the Bolsheviks took about 24% and finished second; in January 1918 they dissolved the Constituent Assembly by force. In Romania, 1944, the Communist Party had roughly a thousand members — about six thousandths of one percent of the population — and controlled the country within three years. In Berlin’s free city election of October 1946, the Communists lost badly to the Social Democrats, so the two parties were forced into a single bloc and competitive elections ended.
The obvious objection is that these are three different countries across four decades. That’s the point: the sequence is identical every time — a sliver of the population, an election used as a pretext, the next election cancelled, then secret police. None of it requires popular support; it requires control of the checkpoints and backing from outside. Watch for the sequence, not the vote count.
Eric Garland is an intelligence analyst personally sanctioned by the Russian Federation in May 2022 for his work on Russian intelligence operations. He is the author of the 2016 “Game Theory” thread, named by The New York Times as one of the 25 most important tweets in history.
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Russian Constituent Assembly election, November 1917 (results and turnout).
Decree dissolving the Constituent Assembly, Russian SFSR, January 1918.
Romanian general election, November 1946; abdication of King Michael I, December 1947.
Berlin city assembly (Stadtverordnetenversammlung) election, October 1946.
Forced merger of the KPD and SPD into the SED, April 1946.
