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It's true, since the October Revolution the Soviets didn't actually serve their people

by xkcd1963 4y ago

myth_drannon 4y ago
And before the Revolution, Tsarist regime did even more horrowing things to its people. Sadly Russia never had a ruling entity that was good. Well there was hope in the 80's with Gorbachev and Krushev with his Thaw period, but these were short lived and the system went back to its stable state of terrorizing its citizens.
- BurningFrog 4y ago
  The Soviet Union killed between 20-60 million of its own people. Did Tsarist Russia really do anything that competes with that?
  - KptMarchewa 4y ago
    Not the same scale, but yeah. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katorga https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katorga https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circassian_genocide https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circassian_genocide
  - akho 4y ago
    Tsarist Russia enslaved most of its population for centuries.
    - IYasha 4y ago
      You sound nonsensical. Russian government did enslave russian population?? Just remember that "coincidentally" the whole Romanov (that's a stage name) family are germans. And official history is even more coincidentally was (over)written by germans.
    - BurningFrog 4y ago
      I think we can agree that it's better to be a slave than to be murdered? The Soviet Union also made extensive use of slave labor, where millions died.
      - yawboakye 4y ago
        nonsense. it's cowardice like this that has left the current world enslaved to whatever is the current fad. there's no disgrace in death but generational disgrace in slavery. learn a little bit of history. you'll learn, for example, how the greeks would rather die on the battlefield than be enslaved. or at least try to figure out why the romans never sued for peace during the second punic war even though they were constantly battered on the battlefield.
  - hdjjhhvvhga 4y ago
    And yet, Putin says those who don't miss it have no heart.
- Gibbon1 4y ago
  Thing to remember is the Russian Revolution of 1905 changed the structure of the Russian government to a constitutional Monarchy. That's what the communists overthrew and replaced with something far worse.

It's true, since the October Revolution the Soviets didn't actually serve their people

And before the Revolution, Tsarist regime did even more horrowing things to its people. Sadly Russia never had a ruling entity that was good. Well there was hope in the 80's with Gorbachev and Krushev with his Thaw period, but these were short lived and the system went back to its stable state of terrorizing its citizens.

BurningFrog 4y ago
The Soviet Union killed between 20-60 million of its own people. Did Tsarist Russia really do anything that competes with that?
- KptMarchewa 4y ago
  Not the same scale, but yeah. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katorga https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katorga https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circassian_genocide https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circassian_genocide
- akho 4y ago
  Tsarist Russia enslaved most of its population for centuries.
  - IYasha 4y ago
    You sound nonsensical. Russian government did enslave russian population?? Just remember that "coincidentally" the whole Romanov (that's a stage name) family are germans. And official history is even more coincidentally was (over)written by germans.
  - BurningFrog 4y ago
    I think we can agree that it's better to be a slave than to be murdered? The Soviet Union also made extensive use of slave labor, where millions died.
    - yawboakye 4y ago
      nonsense. it's cowardice like this that has left the current world enslaved to whatever is the current fad. there's no disgrace in death but generational disgrace in slavery. learn a little bit of history. you'll learn, for example, how the greeks would rather die on the battlefield than be enslaved. or at least try to figure out why the romans never sued for peace during the second punic war even though they were constantly battered on the battlefield.
- hdjjhhvvhga 4y ago
  And yet, Putin says those who don't miss it have no heart.
Gibbon1 4y ago
Thing to remember is the Russian Revolution of 1905 changed the structure of the Russian government to a constitutional Monarchy. That's what the communists overthrew and replaced with something far worse.