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This reminds me of a short story from Soviet times: Russia, 1917. A commotion on the street. A lady asks a servant to find out what's going on. The servant ret
by dottedmag 4y ago
This reminds me of a short story from Soviet times:
Russia, 1917. A commotion on the street. A lady asks a servant to find out what's going on. The servant returns:
- Revolution!
- That's fabulous. My grandfather was a revolutionary too. What do they wish to achieve?
- They want to make sure nobody is rich!
- That's odd... My grandfather wanted to make sure nobody is poor.
P.S: A sad irony is that Soviet education system was pretty good at maintaining gifted programs.
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- TrackerFF 4y agoBut also pretty good at excluding for example Jews from certain prestigious schools, see: https://arxiv.org/abs/1110.1556 https://arxiv.org/abs/1110.1556
- 62951413 4y agoThe Jews were overrepresented among both students and teachers in top STEM educational institutions starting from magnet schools.
- spaced-out 4y agoWhat revolution was the 1917 woman's grandfather apart of?
- somedude895 4y agoThere was a peasant / worker revolt in 1905, which led to the Tsar implementing some democratic institutions: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1905_Russian_Revolution https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1905_Russian_Revolution
- dottedmag 4y agoThis one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decembrist_revolt https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decembrist_revolt