Nice people and interesting questions: how the revolution was financed (12.07.2026)
A series of street dialogues between Vitaliy Dribnytsya and friendly interlocutors. The central historical part answers the question of where the Bolsheviks got the funds for the revolution and the civil war: Russian millionaire industrialists, German gold, free frontline newspapers, and control of the industrial centers. Separately, the historian explains why Bohdan Khmelnytsky cannot be called a “traitor.” A source for the article on the Ukrainian Revolution of 1917–1921.
Key moments
- 00:53 The "investors" of Bohdan Khmelnytsky's war of 1648
- 02:30 Was Pugachev a simple Cossack
- 05:43 Where the Bolsheviks got the money for the revolution
- 07:55 The millionaires Mamontov and Morozov financed all the parties
- 08:36 ~30 tons of German gold to the Bolsheviks
- 09:27 Free frontline newspapers as a weapon of propaganda
- 10:31 The industrial centers Petrograd–Moscow as the key to Bolshevik victory
- 12:15 Socialization of land — the Left SRs' slogan, then war communism
- 14:12 Was Bohdan Khmelnytsky a "traitor"
- 18:38 Khmelnytsky as a builder of the Ukrainian state