Did you know that Marx was a young and devout Protestant before proclaiming atheistic materialism? And that communist Russia tried to create a super soldier by crossing orangutans with humans? Or that God was put on trial and sentenced to death?

The story of a movement whose ultimate goal was, as Trotsky intended, "to turn the world upside down."

The Russian Revolution shook the world in the midst of World War I. As if emerging from nowhere, the Bolsheviks overthrew a weak bourgeois government that, in turn, had previously brought down the Romanov dynasty. Welcomed by a good part of the Western intelligentsia as a new stage in the history of humanity, it seemed that utopia had never been so close to the hands that always dreamed of touching it. The first year of Bolshevik rule was a series of declarations and legislation proclaiming almost absolute freedom... Soon, utopia met reality and revolutionary Russia, immersed in a terrible civil war, discovered that only terror could achieve the longed-for dream. The promised freedoms were curtailed, the Cheka and the Gulag – modern versions of labour camps – were inaugurated, as well as the Tsarist secret police. Emulating Robespierre, they wanted to comply with the maxim of “terror will make you free.” The struggles for power, the constant purges, the systematic suspicion, the impossible idealisms, created a society where anything was viable.
Esotericism took root among the atheist Bolsheviks; the capitalist countries, especially the United States, supported Lenin and Stalin financially and mathematicians who were experts in statistics were sent to Siberia because the data they offered did not correspond to the expectations of the power. The new religion was called production and reality was replaced by propaganda.
In Russia, people often talk about “Potemkin villages.” They are villages with very beautiful facades of houses behind which there is nothing. Was that the Russian Revolution and the passions it raised in this admirable people to create a “homo sovieticus” that was never born, as the promoters of the revolution intended?