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Way more bloody than the prelude to the revolution, which also included Tzarist oppression and slaughter of workers.

Then there were some Tzarist repressions, he emigrated in the US, patented tungsten filament in 1893 (US Patent No.

This conflict worked to create communist revolutions in nations with more feudalistic systems like Tzarist Russia.

The Soviet Union didn’t lack inequality but it was much more equal than tzarist Russia.

Be it a Tzarist Russia, a communist Russia or a putinist Russia.

What about the 240 million who died under the tzarist regime?

Soviet Russia was a change in government from Tzarist Russia, which was already a Big Deal in the world, not a 0 to Super Power transition.

Based on the wikipedia article it looks like Jacob Schiff funded the Russian Revolution because he was Jewish, and disliked the anti-Semitism of the Tzarist regime.

Those checks and balances weren't in Tzarist Russia either.

Great Patriotic War and other reversals of Tzarist times (rank system in the army, the concept of motherland etc) did not appear until months into the conflict.

Prior to the Soviet rule, public organizations stepped in to help the victims and did so successfully (check the historic records of the Tzarist Russia on the subject).

I agree that has been the case in economically disadvantaged countries but do you think America is closer to Cuba, Venezuela or Tzarist Russia...

Given this I don't think it makes sense to say that the Russian Revolution was funded by "Wall St." but rather that it was supported by a wealthy Jewish American who opposed the Tzarist regime.

Anti-Semitism/Anti-Judaism in Tzarist Russia was incredibly harsh (see the etymology of the word "pogrom"), but it was codified and known: one knew what the Jewish quotas were at the universities and the entire nascent capitalist sphere was open to Jews (e.g., a Jew could become a "merchant of first guild").

Tzarist Russia is the second best police state in 20th century Russia.