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For Russians, the war has started in 1917. Whatever there was in 1914-1917 now barely registers compared to what has followed. It is also disingenous to call R
by thriftwy 4y ago
For Russians, the war has started in 1917. Whatever there was in 1914-1917 now barely registers compared to what has followed.
It is also disingenous to call Russian revolution a "Labor action", since it was performed first by army generals and members of ruling class, then by political exiles-in-return.
- AlbertCory 4y agoExcuse me? "Whatever there was in 1914-1917"?? 122,000 killed, wounded, or captured. And that was just one battle. https://www.britannica.com/event/Battle-of-Tannenberg-World-War-I-1914 https://www.britannica.com/event/Battle-of-Tannenberg-World-... The Russians lost 30,000 killed or wounded, while the Germans sustained a total of only 13,000 casualties. Some 92,000 Russian prisoners were taken, two and a half army corps annihilated, and the remaining half of Samsonov’s army severely shaken.
- thriftwy 4y agoWell the civil war has caused multiple million casualties, most of them civilian. Moreover it has mostly uprooted the surviving rest of society. That trauma has dwarfed WWI and almost erased it from public memory.
- int_19h 4y agoI'm Russian, and this is nonsense. The Civil War that followed is definitely recognized as very destructive and traumatic. But it doesn't mean that we don't remember the Attack of the Dead Men, the Brusilov Offensive, the Women's Death Batallions, the Brest Peace etc. When it comes to politics, in particular, WW1 is remembered precisely because it led to a revolution, and it was very obvious and explicit in the revolutionaries' rhetoric; one of the most famous slogans was "штыки в землю", literally "bayonets into the ground".
- AlbertCory 4y agoThanks. I'm not Russian, and if someone says WW1 is largely forgotten there, I'm doubtful, but I'm hardly in a position to argue. It's mostly forgotten in the US, for that matter. I think the last living veteran of that war died recently. Peter Jackson's recent cleaning up of the movie footage for "They Shall Not Grow Old" https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7905466/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_1 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7905466/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_1 was heart-rending.
- thriftwy 4y agoBrest Peace is a part of revolutionary events, and the rest is mostly remembered by tiny minority of Russian monarchists and forgotten by the rest. Even I hear of Women's Death Batallions for the first time. Need to google.