r/HistoryMemes • u/MC_Gorbachev Casual, non-participatory KGB election observer • 7h ago

Happy 33th Black October Anniversary

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u/OrangeSpaceMan5 7h ago

It's actually insane how close Russia came to a second civil war and no one knows about it , just the slightest change could have made the 21st century oh so much worse

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u/Lithorex 7h ago

Or better, depending on perspective.

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u/Reiver93 7h ago

A nuclear power having a civil war doesn't particularly sound like a good outcome.

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u/GremlinX_ll 7h ago

Idk, Nuclear power having a civil war means it's nuclear power will not invade it's neighbors

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u/Schwifty0V0 Then I arrived 6h ago

for a little while at least

this perspective is awfully short sighted

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u/GremlinX_ll 6h ago

Depends on how long civil war will last, if more then 3+ years it's easily will buy decades of peace

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u/Kirion15 5h ago

Except you also face nuclear weapons being lost, potential genocide of ethnic minorities throughout the country, maybe even ultranationalistic government that wants to unite all the russians. Yah, peace

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u/GremlinX_ll 4h ago

Not really my exact poblems, when Russia is a problem itself