Did you know that the Communists stormed the Winter Palace and overthrew the Czar?
If you are right now screaming at your computer screen in anger, congratulations. That means you are more informed on the subject of history than the entire History channel. The error cited above is but one of the many that the History Channel included in their three part series, "The World Wars," this week. The amazing thing is that not only a particular History Channel writer made these errors but that nobody at the History Channel spotted them. Are they so involved in the "history" of Ancient Aliens over there that they have completely lost track of real history? The lack of historical knowledge at the History Channel is astonishing as evidenced by the following errors in the series.
First of all, the Communists (or Bolsheviks as they were known then) did not overthrow the Czar when they stormed the Winter Palace in November 1917. The Czar was already overthrown the previous March (February by the Julian calendar) while Lenin was still stuck in Switzerland. The new Provisional government consisting mainly of Mensheviks and Social Revolutionaries continued the war against Germany which is why the Germans brought Lenin to Russia via sealed train. To overthrow the Provisional government, not the Czar who was already out of power. However, this is how the History Channel narrator (was it the weird hair Ancient Aliens dude?) presented the scenario for November of that year:
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