The Bolsheviks weren't popular at all. They took the name derived from bolshoi (большой - big) to trick people into thinking they were popular. 🤔
I never looked into this further, because even as a teenager I was starting to get that anti-communism required a lot more Jewish erasure than I was comfortable with. It seemed like for every alleged Soviet atrocity there was always something missing...like a plausible motive, or that the supposed good guys were murdering Jews.
The Bolsheviks weren't popular at all. They took the name derived from bolshoi (большой - big) to trick people into thinking they were popular. 🤔
I never looked into this further, because even as a teenager I was starting to get that anti-communism required a lot more Jewish erasure than I was comfortable with. It seemed like for every alleged Soviet atrocity there was always something missing...like a plausible motive, or that the supposed good guys were murdering Jews.