The Great October Socialist Revolution and the national liberation movement

Abstract

The Great October Socialist Revolution, which marked the beginning of mankind's deliverance from the exploitative system and the transition from capitalism to socialism, is the greatest event in world history. There is not a single significant phenomenon of social life that has not been influenced by it. With particular force the influence of the Great October Revolution has affected the struggle of oppressed peoples. “The Great October Socialist Revolution dealt the strongest blow to the entire system of imperialist colonial domination, was a powerful stimulus to the development of the national liberation movement”, a turning point in its development. It proved the real possibility of complete national liberation of peoples, opened to them the prospect of social progress, awakened them as an active independent force in international life and marked “the advent of the era of liberation of oppressed peoples”.