This is a fascinating tale of Bolsheviks waging a war on the traditional patriarchal family and, in the process, unleashing hypergamy, top-male polygyny, rampant divorce, wide-spread abortion and millions of broken hearts. I love sharing such things since so many blue-pill pushers deny that human nature is capable of such things, (to channel Bill Burr) as if we were talking about Bigfoot, like we're saying the Moon is made of cheese or something.

I've often argued that it's the elites who have the most influence on the direction a society takes. Usually the very top elites are male but sometimes they're female and often the female elites serve the purposes of the male elites, putting the apex alpha males at the very top of society most of the time. Generalizing the realpolitik Golden Rule--whoever has the gold makes the rules--we have: whoever has the power makes the rules. Most of the power lies with the elites, though some of it lies with the masses.

In the case of the early Soviet Union, and in line with Marxist ideology, the traditional family was seen as a pillar of the enemy and had to be destroyed. The Bolshevik leadership set about the rather ironic implementation of a "free market wild west" for love, removing the old regulations that governed the sexual and marriage market places.

Easy Divorce, Adultery And Abortion Legalized

Quoting from THE DISASTROUS 1920's ATTACK OF THE COMMUNISTS UPON THE FAMILY UNIT:

"...the efforts which the Old Bolsheviks made, following the Russian revolution of 1917, to put into practice the teachings of that ... great would-be emancipator, Karl Marx, and his collaborator, Frederick Engels. In his "Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State" published in 1902 Engels declared that money was just another vestige of the iniquitous capitalist system and would disappear with the "transformation of the means of production into collective property".

"In traditional marriage, women, he held, are in effect property, and their emancipation would follow as a matter of course with the abolition of private ownership. "We are now approaching," he wrote, "a social revolution in which the old economic foundation of monogamy will disappear just as surely as those of its complement, prostitution." And his culminating argument for the dissolution of marriage and the conventional type of family was "If marriage founded on love is alone moral, then it follows that marriage is moral only as long as love lasts."

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"Since Engel's book was law with the Bolsheviks, as far as the institution of marriage was concerned, it is not surprising that, with the success of the revolution of 1917 assured, efforts were quickly and systematically made to put his teachings into effect. For detailed documentation of the way in which this was carried out, I refer the reader to Nicholas S. Timasheff's 1946 book, "The Great Retreat" but the salient facts of the case are these. Divorce, which had previously been difficult to obtain in Russia, became extremely easy; a postal card notifying the other partner that the relationship was ended would suffice. "Incest, bigamy, and adultery were dropped from the list of official crimes [and] abortion was explicitly permitted by the decree of November 20 1920." No distinction was made between the status of children born legitimately and illegitimately, nonregistered co-habitation was given the same legal status as registered co-habitation, parental authority over children was systematically weakened, and additional measures were taken "to uproot the traditional structure of the family".

From an Atlantic article from 1926, we also see the introduction of child support:

"When the Bolsheviki came into power in 1917 they regarded the family, like every other 'bourgeois' institution, with fierce hatred, and set out with a will to destroy it. 'To clear the family out of the accumulated dust of the ages we had to give it a good shakeup, and we did,' declared Madame Smidovich, a leading Communist ... The father of a child is forced to contribute to its support, usually paying the mother a third of his salary in the event of a separation, provided she has no other means of livelihood."

Notice the similarities between what was implemented in the 1920s there and what was eventually implemented in most of the Western World decades later. Notice the similarities between the marxist and feminist view of the traditional family and the suggested "remedies."

Hypergamy And Caddish Serial Polygyny Unleashed

Continuing with the Atlantic Article, we see the sweet-in-thy-mouth, bitter-in-thy-belly fruits of the seeds sown. I'll add some commentary in bold brackets. What happened as a result of easy no-fault divorce?

"Chaos was the result. Men took to changing wives with the same zest which they displayed in the consumption of the recently restored forty-per-cent vodka. [note: the author is a woman and guilty of the apex fallacy which we'll see below]"

"Some men have twenty wives, living a week with one, a month with another," asserted an indignant woman delegate during the sessions of the Tzik. "They have children with all of them, and these children are thrown on the street for lack of support! [Given that these men were having children with all of these women, combined with what we know about the vast majority of women not leaping from bed to bed with such frequency and often remaining in love with a dashing rake afterwards, it likely means that a small cadre of cads was impregnating a larger body of women.] (There are three hundred thousand bezprizorni or shelterless children in Russia to-day, who are literally turned out on the streets. They are one of the greatest social dangers of the present time, because they are developing into professional criminals. More than half of them are drug addicts and sex perverts....)

It's fascinating how the woman writing the article simply says that men took to changing wives frequently but as we'll see in the anecdotes she shares, it's really attractive men that were leaving a trail of alpha widow tears in their wake:

"Peasant boys [Which peasant boys? APBALT?] looked upon marriage as an exciting game and changed wives with the change of seasons. It was not an unusual occurrence for a boy of twenty to have had three or four wives, or for a girl of the same age to have had three or four abortions...."

"What makes women get divorces?" I asked him. Just then a girl about eighteen years old entered the room. "Here is our latest divorcee," said the president laughingly. "Ask her." I turned around, but the girl was no longer there, and from the window I saw her running away as fast as she could. I ran after her and finally caught up with her in the fields outside the village. We sat down on a haystack and I asked the girl to talk to me frankly, as woman to woman. [I couldn't resist including an alpha widow chase scene.]

"Tears filled her eyes as she told me that she still loved her nineteen-year-old husband, but that he had forced her to ask for a divorce only two months after they had been married. He now thought he loved another girl in the village and threatened to kill his wife if she did not leave him voluntarily. [As I thought, not all the peasant boys were like this, rather it was the caddish assholes that far too many women love to love. Admittedly, we don't know if he succeeded with the other girl but I'm imagining he thought he had a good chance or he wouldn't have abandoned his wife. Also, notice how she was still in love with him and not with another man yet, adding some credence to the idea that it was a smaller body of men able to have multiple women.]

I recall another victim of the breakdown of family ties in the villages, a tall, pale, silent Cossack woman. She was divorced by her husband after their first child was born. He then married another woman, had a child by her, deserted both, and returned to his first wife, by whom he had a second child. [Notice that this man was attractive enough to get the first woman, then leave her and find another, and then be ACCEPTED BACK by the first one (likely an alpha widow) again. This was no mere average male.]

Here was one particularly gruesome tale of a fateful fight between a peasant alpha widow and the replacement,

"A peasant left his village wife and began to live with a working woman in the town. The village wife kept coming and making scenes before the second wife, until the latter, irritated beyond endurance, poured benzine over her rival, set her on fire, and burned her to death.

Gold Diggers, Labor Pimps, And The Inevitable Retreat

From the Disastrous 1920's article, we again see that it was the more bold and attractive males that gorged on the bounty of booty while the weak and the shy were exiled to a frigid, pussy-less tundra.

"Finally, the magnificent slogans of the liberation of sex and the emancipation of women proved to have worked in favor of the strong and reckless, and against the weak and shy. Millions of girls saw their lives ruined by Don Juans in Communist garb, and millions of children had never known parental homes."

Gold Diggers and Labor Pimps 

Other nefarious practices arose. From the Atlantic article:

"Many women of light behavior [gold-digging whores] found marriage and childbearing a profitable occupation. They formed connections with the sons of well-to-do peasants and then blackmailed the father for the support of the children."

"Other peasants [labor "pimps"] took advantage of the loose divorce regulations to acquire 'summer brides.' As the hiring of labor in Russia is hedged about with difficulties and restrictions for the private employer, the richer peasants in some districts took to the practice of marrying a strong girl for the harvest season and divorcing her as soon as the work in the fields was over."

Chaos Unleashed, Forces a Retreat to Reality

"Both in the villages and in the cities the problem of the unmarried mother has become very acute and provides a severe and annoying test of Communist theories. In the early stages of the Revolution the Communists held the theory that children should be reared and cared for by the State. But it soon became evident that the State, especially in war-torn and impoverished Russia, was financially quite incapable of assuming such a heavy burden of responsibility."

Faced With Upheaval, The Apex Alpha Males Reverse Course

From the Disastrous 1920’s article, we see that the the bold but foolish experiment was ended:

By way of describing the reforms which Soviet leaders eventually instigated, Timasheff reports that freedom of divorce was first curtailed and then almost abolished. Abortion was made illegal, and marriage was once again idealized. Also;

"The peculiar parent-child relationship which had obtained under the Communist experiment, and which granted superiority to the children, was reversed to one which is considered normal in the world; once more, children have to recognize the authority of their parents" (p. 62).

Connection To Today

OOW birth rates continue to rise and men are working less and less as they have fewer incentives and face a biased educational and employment system that grants AA to women. As I've often written, the elites like it this way, benefiting in various ways, some from abundant pussy, others from cheap labor, others from votes and others from capricious customers. Only if enough pressure is applied will the apex alphas of society likely make a change. This can happen peacefully, by marshaling the ranks of the discontent and out-of-fashion and by convincing the fair-minded about the imbalances in society (aka giving them the red pill), or by external pressure, by enough people gradually checking out and bringing economic pressure to the welfare state, or by outright rebellion as has been seen in many countries around the world in recent years.