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.
Turned a rural backwater into a spacefaring superpower within a lifetime, that's hard to beat in terms of sheer achievement.
No I never have, I was wrong, we should listen to the adults in the room who get shit done
The Soviet Union liberated my great-grandfathers who were resistance thus I owe my existence to them
The Soviet Union saved one of my Great Uncles from a concentration camp. Not quite the same, but I appreciate them none the less.
Long live the Soviet Union, and may something like it rise again
It did according to Gregorian calendar. But the Russians were using the Julian calendar in which it would be the 25th october right now.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
higher homeownership rates too, i think.
i know, i know, owning your home is bondage and renting is freedom, but still.
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
and worldwide escalation of violence due to missing counter weight to the usian war industry
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.
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.
