To Save the Soviets: Russia's Last Communist Coup Attempt
Simon Whistler · January 17, 2023 · 18 min video · Europe & NATO
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The Soviet Union was one of the defining institutions of the 20th century. From the overthrow of the Tsar in 1917, to the Second World War, to the Cold War, space race and the long slow decline, the overarching story of the 1900s is, in many ways, the Soviet Union's story.
Their presence on the world stage forced innovation, militarization and social polarisation while their impact on the many Soviet peoples was largely one of punishing, brutal, perpetual, social, economic winter.
It's impossible to know for sure what the world would look like if the Soviets had never come to power, but it's safe to say that modern history would be fundamentally different. And speaking of different, if there's anything the long arc of humanity has taught us, it's that all empires were some day full.
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