0 sats \ 9 replies \ @Bell_curve 22 Mar \ parent \ on: EU agrees to expropriate profits from Russian assets to capitalize war bonds econ
Revolution and coup d’etat are synonymous.
We can quibble about semantics but the effect is the same: change in leadership.
Glorious Revolution was also a coup
Coup can have popular support or not.
After October Revolution there was a 5 year civil war between reds and whites. Karensky made a mistake by being neutral
There was a lot of mistakes by various parties back then, bolsheviks used that and seized power. They were small fraction actually at the beginning of 1917.
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Very small. And Lenin was stuck in Germany in 1917, almost didn’t make it to Russia.
By 1922 they consolidated power.
More proof a small dangerous minority can gain influence and power
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More proof a small dangerous minority can gain influence and power
Exactly, that's what neo-marxists are trying to do in the West for decades.
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When you were born who was Russian leader? Brezhnev?
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Yuri Andropov. But my memories starts with Gorbachev.
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1985
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Andropov died in 1984.
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Then Chernenko died in 1984 or 85