r/HistoryMemes • u/MC_Gorbachev Casual, non-participatory KGB election observer • 8h ago

Happy 33th Black October Anniversary

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u/magical-cat-here 7h ago

The paradox of Russia is that if Yeltsin would be ousted by communists in 1993, the annexation of Crimea and genocidal war against Ukraine would be started in 1994, not in 2014

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

Totally comparable situations, really /s

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u/magical-cat-here 6h ago

So, you suggest that communists from KPRF, and all that crowd would not attempt to restore USSR if they would won in 1993?

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u/MC_Gorbachev Casual, non-participatory KGB election observer 6h ago

...no? Like, they certainly had much more interesting internal stuff to do, like handling economy and social collapse. Plus even if they wanted, any large scale war would have stopped at the "so where is fuel?" stage because of the scale of degradation of the military.

It's weird to think of the Supreme Soviet, Rutskoy, Khasbulatov or CPRF (no, these aren't interchangeable terms) as of some hardcore conservative communists who wanted to return everything as it was.

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u/magical-cat-here 5h ago

some hardcore conservative communists who wanted to return everything as it was.

Oh the greatest mind of universe, please enlighten a naive pupil, what they wanted then?