These lessons can be correlated with the radicals revolt against America and the approval and assistance they receive from the establishment elites, including media, corporations, education and elected leaders.
"The riots, civil unrest, and mass psychological breakdown currently affecting America have me thinking about Russia.
I see parallels between the type of despair that gripped Russia in the 1990s and the despair that is really behind much of the civil unrest in America today."
"But as the czar’s police services investigated the events, they found out something else: the young radicals had gotten a lot of help from quarters that were not radical at all."
"These high-born personages, all of whom had very personal stakes in the regime and who disagreed with the revolutionaries’ goals, nonetheless admired their youth, their enthusiasm, and their idealism, and thus provided them with material support."
https://amgreatness.com/2020/07/11/lessons-from-the-radicalization-of-russia/
If the revolt remains unchecked and allowed to run its course our elites will wake up and find themselves locked in the gulag along with us deplorables and irredeemables.