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1924: Vladimir Lenin dies

Posted on January 21, 2024 by Steve

As awful as he was, Lenin was like all humans…complicated. A couple things I will say in his defense: compared to Stalin, he was an amateur dictator and although many morons put him incorrectly in the company of Stalin, Hitler, … Continue reading →

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1922: USSR founded

Posted on December 30, 2022 by Steve

And it only last 69 years. You never heard much about this date, they more often celebrated the revolution that went down in October/November 1917 as the foundation of their state, a predominantly Russian-dominated one. Even with my Left-leaning politics, … Continue reading →

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Farewell Mikhail Gorbachev

Posted on August 31, 2022 by Steve

Given how poorly things are going in Russia and the former Soviet Republics, Gorbachev will often be remembered in a positive light, despite agreeing with Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014. He also represented some major shifts over there which … Continue reading →

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