Russia has been under continual attack by the capitalist countries since World War 1 and the Bolshevik revolution. This is not an unprecedented occurrence in world history. After the French Revolution of 1789, most of the other monarchies in Europe immediately invaded France. Why? The revolution was taking power and wealth away from the king, nobles and Catholic church and redistributing wealth downward to the ordinary French people. It was ending feudalism and taking land from the nobles and giving it to the peasants to farm and giving them freedom to move if they wished. This was a threat by example and a huge problem to all the other kings and nobles in Europe. Also, it was a danger to the Catholic church, some of whose great wealth was being seized for the people. Napoleon began his career by acting to counter these foreign invasions as an ordinary French soldier. Another example is the Paris Commune of 1871. The Prussians had invaded France in the Franco-Prussian war and captured Napolean III at Sedan and imprisoned him. The French workers had revolted and established a commune in Paris with the Prussian soldiers encamped on the outskirts of the city and afraid to enter because of the barricades and expected strong resistance. The counterrevolutionary