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On this day in 1917 the October Revolution started, marking the rise of the Soviet Union (lemmygrad.ml)

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It changed Russia from a tsarist empire into a global socialist superpower within decades.

Let their courage and vision for a better world inspire us in our own journeys towards a communist world.

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[-] commiewolf@lemmygrad.ml 47 points 10 months ago

Turned a rural backwater into a spacefaring superpower within a lifetime, that's hard to beat in terms of sheer achievement.

[-] bazingabrain@hexbear.net 27 points 10 months ago

yes, but have you considered that actually Animal Farm 1984?

[-] funky_tomatoe@lemmygrad.ml 18 points 10 months ago

I forgor💀

[-] Ocommie63@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

No I never have, I was wrong, we should listen to the adults in the room who get shit done

[-] lemat_87@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 10 months ago

🤣 🤣 🤣

[-] wombat@hexbear.net 38 points 10 months ago

the USSR is the greatest achievement in world history

[-] bazingabrain@hexbear.net 38 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

The Soviet Union liberated my great-grandfathers who were resistance thus I owe my existence to them sankara-salute

[-] SeeingRed@lemmygrad.ml 32 points 10 months ago

The Soviet Union saved one of my Great Uncles from a concentration camp. Not quite the same, but I appreciate them none the less.

[-] bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 25 points 10 months ago

The ten days that shook the world!

[-] QueerCommie@lemmygrad.ml 25 points 10 months ago

October revolution started in November?

[-] DankZedong@lemmygrad.ml 38 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

It did according to Gregorian calendar. But the Russians were using the Julian calendar in which it would be the 25th october right now.

[-] QueerCommie@lemmygrad.ml 15 points 10 months ago

I see, that makes sense.

[-] Utter_Karate@hexbear.net 20 points 10 months ago

Since the calendar shift was already explained, it may be fun to know that there were two revolutions in Russia in 1917, both named after the wrong month. The February revolution took place in March and the October revolution took place in November. Just as a bit of trivia.

[-] Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net 24 points 10 months ago

Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.

[-] comrade_pibb@hexbear.net 12 points 10 months ago

🥲

[-] cayde6ml@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 10 months ago

Its not over until Chris Christie starts singing.

[-] Shrike502@lemmygrad.ml 22 points 10 months ago

Raise a glass for the real ones

[-] redline@lemmygrad.ml 19 points 10 months ago

good!

[-] TeezyZeezy@lemmygrad.ml 16 points 10 months ago

The revolutionaries of the past are looking down on us with hope. I imagine the entirety of the first communist wave chanting our names in unison.

They've laid the groundwork, let us finish the job!

[-] Kirbywithwhip1987@lemmygrad.ml 16 points 10 months ago

Hope it happens again very soon!

[-] yogthos@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 10 months ago

[+] Mylemmy@lemmy.ml -57 points 10 months ago

Lol we know how that ended

[-] DankZedong@lemmygrad.ml 64 points 10 months ago

In an illegal dismantlement forced by The West with a subsequent capitalist shock therapy in which millions died and even more millions saw their quality of life decline drastically.

[-] yogthos@lemmygrad.ml 60 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I also love how these imbeciles always bring up the fact that USSR dissolved as some kind of gotcha, like see communism doesn't work I'm so intelligent. As if no capitalist regime has ever collapsed due to its internal contradictions. The reality is that every type of system has potential to fail in some way. The question that actually needs to be asked is how well the system functions while it's working as intended.

USSR managed to provide everyone with things like food, housing, education, and healthcare. Nobody in USSR worried that they'd lose their job and end up on the street or that they couldn't retire in dignity. These are basic things that no capitalist regime is able to accomplish today. These are real tangible rights and freedoms that USSR ensured for its people.

[-] OrnluWolfjarl@lemmygrad.ml 35 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Former soviet republics still have a far better literacy score, more doctors per capita, and a more equal representation of women in sciences and academics than many Western capitalist countries.

[-] huf@hexbear.net 26 points 10 months ago

higher homeownership rates too, i think.

i know, i know, owning your home is bondage and renting is freedom, but still.

[-] lemat_87@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 10 months ago

After 3 decades after USSR collapse, in capitalism, home ownership is in bad condition - as an example I can give Poland, which chases US and UK in difficulty of having home. Fuck that shit

[-] yogthos@lemmygrad.ml 18 points 10 months ago

Indeed

[-] olgas_husband@lemmygrad.ml 36 points 10 months ago

and worldwide escalation of violence due to missing counter weight to the usian war industry

[-] Shinhoshi@lemmygrad.ml 52 points 10 months ago

Yeah, the October Revolution ended pretty well.

lenin capitalist

[-] knfrmity@lemmygrad.ml 43 points 10 months ago

Yep, with a reactionary coup, because a non-capitalist alternative was just too threatening. One of the biggest tragedies of the 20th century, for reasons already briefly detailed in other comments here.

[-] Utter_Karate@hexbear.net 22 points 10 months ago

The October revolution? Yeah, we do know how that ended. Or are you talking about how a state that did not yet exist at the time ended close to 80 years later, when the revolutionaries themselves were all dead and buried? Cause if we are bringing all subsequent generations into this I guess we all know that it simply did not end.

[-] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 10 months ago

Absolutely glorious.

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