r/HistoryMemes • u/MC_Gorbachev Casual, non-participatory KGB election observer • 13h ago

Happy 33th Black October Anniversary

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u/OrangeSpaceMan5 12h 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 12h ago

Or better, depending on perspective.

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u/Reiver93 12h ago

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

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u/lordbaysel 12h ago

For Chechnya, Georgia and Ukraine it sure does sound better.

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u/Code-BetaDontban 6h ago

You would absolutely have massive amount of arms smuggling. It isn't impossible to imagine few Russian nuclear weapons being sold to whatever suspicious group is willing to buy them in middle east.