Title: Commemorating the 100-year anniversary of the fall of Kronstadt, which took place on March 18, 1921.
Policy area: International Affairs

Summary:
This resolution commemorates the fall of the Russian city of Kronstadt on March 18, 1921, which marked the end of an uprising against the communist Russian government.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 252 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. RES. 252

Commemorating the 100-year anniversary of the fall of Kronstadt, which 
                     took place on March 18, 1921.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 18, 2021

Mr. Cawthorn submitted the following resolution; which was referred to 
                    the Committee on Foreign Affairs

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                               RESOLUTION


 
Commemorating the 100-year anniversary of the fall of Kronstadt, which 
                     took place on March 18, 1921.

Whereas the Kronstadt revolution began in Soviet Russia on March 1, 1918, and 
        ended on March 18, 1921;
Whereas the Kronstadt revolution began as a workers' and veterans' revolt 
        against the bureaucratic and authoritarian excess of Lenin and Trotsky, 
        and ended as a testament to the totalitarian impulse of Marxism;
Whereas after their brave stand, members of the Kronstadt resistance were 
        eventually slaughtered, and many fled to exile, seeking elsewhere the 
        freedom and prosperity that the Soviets had promised them;
Whereas the Kronstadt rebels took every step within their power to avoid violent 
        rebellion, and their remonstrations with Soviet authorities to abide by 
        the principles of the 1917 revolution were ultimately unsuccessful;
Whereas the Kronstadt exposed the authoritarian tendencies of Soviet Russia, and 
        after the Kronstadt revolution, it was obvious that Soviet Russia had no 
        interest in any value beyond power;
Whereas the Kronstadt revolution further presaged the totalitarian excesses of 
        communism globally, and every communist revolution eventually has a 
        Kronstadt;
Whereas the Kronstadt revolution exposed the fact that communism is ultimately 
        antihuman and that the things that make communism possible are 
        repression, fear, and theft;
Whereas the Kronstadt revolution exposed the hypocrisy of communist pretensions 
        to caring about the working class and that when given a choice between 
        workers and power, communists chose power every time;
Whereas the Kronstadt revolution gave us all reasons to oppose Marxism and 
        communism in all forms;
Whereas the failed dream that the Kronstadt revolution represents should be a 
        wakeup call for all of us;
Whereas Marxism is toxic and dangerous because it provides an incentive to 
        commit violence and murder;
Whereas the Kronstadt revolution gave us reasons to be grateful for our system 
        of government and our history, complete with its scars;
Whereas the United States Government has been nowhere close to perfect for its 
        history, but the story of our country shows gradual, frustrating but 
        inexorable progress;
Whereas the Kronstadt revolution showed us the differences between revolutions 
        in the United States verses revolutions in the former Union of Soviet 
        Socialist Republics (U.S.S.R.); and
Whereas one revolution can lead to global prosperity and human flourishing, and 
        another can lead to terror and murder: Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved, That the House of Representatives commemorates--
            (1) the ending of a 16-day stand against the misery, 
        poverty, and despair that the 1917 Russian revolution and 
        tyranny inspired;
            (2) the complete facade of communism exposing itself as 
        inhuman and barbaric; and
            (3) the 100-year anniversary of the fall of Kronstadt, 
        which took place on March 18, 1921.
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