Ringo
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In the early 1920s, the British authorities in India were faced with a serious problem: combating the Bolshevik conspiracy.
Agents of the Comintern threatened to raise a general uprising and drown India in blood, their actions coordinated from abroad.
Bolshevik agents were seen in almost every district, and the police went crazy trying to trace the instigators.
The problem was that there was no conspiracy.
The Communist Party of India was a handful of political émigrés in Moscow and Leningrad, many of whom had not been to their native land since 1905.
The Comintern emissaries had been sent to India several times, by sea or through Afghanistan, to observe with sorrow that there was no movement in the country, only isolated Marxist circles.
"Wait, what do you mean there isn't one?" - the British police became indignant - "We're actually fighting the enemy underground, are you saying we're getting paid here for nothing?! Marxist circles? Fine, we'll go after them."
In 1924, a number of people who could be suspected of belonging to Marxism were arrested in various cities in India.
They arrested Sripad Danghe, a young Bombay lawyer and author of a pamphlet on Lenin, Singravela Chettayar, a trade union leader from Madras, Muzaffar Ahmad, a Calcutta socialist, etc.
They were all accused of conspiring against the empire.
The police triumphantly reported that the Bolshevik contagion had been destroyed.
And then came the trouble - what were those Bolsheviks on trial for?
Nothing criminal was found during the searches.
Yes, some people were found with "Anti-Dühring" and similar kinds of literature, but the defendants pointed out that the books were printed in the Soviet Union.
By the way, the Communist Party also exists legally in the metropolis, what are you trying to accuse us of?
You've picked up random people all over India in general, we see each other for the first time in our lives.
"The Kanpur case" fell apart.
The defendants were each given a few months in jail and by early 1925 had already been released.
At the trial, they got to know each other and agreed on their positions.
All over India they were denigrated as Bolshevik emissaries and heads of the Communist Party.
Well, decided Danghe, Sinhravelu and Muzaffar Ahmad - we have already served our sentence in advance, the whole country considers us heads of the Communist Party.
Let's start this very Communist Party, we didn't sit in jail for nothing.
There, in Kanpur, they held the founding conference - the British moral panic bore fruit, the leftist movement in India did emerge.
Agents of the Comintern threatened to raise a general uprising and drown India in blood, their actions coordinated from abroad.
Bolshevik agents were seen in almost every district, and the police went crazy trying to trace the instigators.
The problem was that there was no conspiracy.
The Communist Party of India was a handful of political émigrés in Moscow and Leningrad, many of whom had not been to their native land since 1905.
The Comintern emissaries had been sent to India several times, by sea or through Afghanistan, to observe with sorrow that there was no movement in the country, only isolated Marxist circles.
"Wait, what do you mean there isn't one?" - the British police became indignant - "We're actually fighting the enemy underground, are you saying we're getting paid here for nothing?! Marxist circles? Fine, we'll go after them."
In 1924, a number of people who could be suspected of belonging to Marxism were arrested in various cities in India.
They arrested Sripad Danghe, a young Bombay lawyer and author of a pamphlet on Lenin, Singravela Chettayar, a trade union leader from Madras, Muzaffar Ahmad, a Calcutta socialist, etc.
They were all accused of conspiring against the empire.
The police triumphantly reported that the Bolshevik contagion had been destroyed.
And then came the trouble - what were those Bolsheviks on trial for?
Nothing criminal was found during the searches.
Yes, some people were found with "Anti-Dühring" and similar kinds of literature, but the defendants pointed out that the books were printed in the Soviet Union.
By the way, the Communist Party also exists legally in the metropolis, what are you trying to accuse us of?
You've picked up random people all over India in general, we see each other for the first time in our lives.
"The Kanpur case" fell apart.
The defendants were each given a few months in jail and by early 1925 had already been released.
At the trial, they got to know each other and agreed on their positions.
All over India they were denigrated as Bolshevik emissaries and heads of the Communist Party.
Well, decided Danghe, Sinhravelu and Muzaffar Ahmad - we have already served our sentence in advance, the whole country considers us heads of the Communist Party.
Let's start this very Communist Party, we didn't sit in jail for nothing.
There, in Kanpur, they held the founding conference - the British moral panic bore fruit, the leftist movement in India did emerge.
