On this day 107 years ago the October Revolution started changing the world forever

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by NARVALhacker69

38 comments

  1. Yes it’s november, but 25th of october in the julian calendar (the one us in zarist rusia) is 7th of november in the current one, the gregorian

  2. Not the first Octoberfest to get the month wrong

  3. In capitalist West man exploits man. In Soviet Russia it is the other way around.

  5. Would argue the change started with the February revolution which ended the monarchy

  8. I wonder what would have been if the February one had lasted and the October one never happened. (btw, technically, February was a Revolution, October was a coup d’êtat).

  9. And, anecdotally, on this day 60 years ago my parents got married.

    Way to go, mom and dad! I love you!

  10. Finally a German spy that overperformed… Back then our secret services seemed to be more efficient than now…

  11. At least Western Europe got some concessions and social reforms from our bourgeois elites. Social Democracies kinda spawn from elites being scared shitless of a red wave spreading throughout Europe.

  12. Let’s keep in mind that Bolsheviks didn’t overturn the oppressive Tsar but the liberal Interim Government. And soon they forcibly disbanded the democratically elected Constituent Assembly because they miserably lost the elections to moderate factions.

    This is the “change” the October Revolution brought about. Dashed the hopes for democratic Russia, brought back the oppressive autocracy in all but name.

  13. Defining moment of 20th century. The boldest move humanity took politically since the Frenchc revolution. For many people 20the century stared with this event.

  14. Without the killings from the communist dictatorship, my family would have never fled from Madagascar to Europe in the 80s. Throwing grenades from a helicopter on the protesting crowd was the cherry on top.

    Vietnamese people probably have similar kinds of stories.

    Yet in 2024, the idea that giving absolute power to a revolutionary elite will end well still persist, it just creates a one-party aristocracy that eliminates opponents as anti-revolution.

  17. Useless piece of trivia: Lenin had an Irish (Dublin) accent when speaking English.

  18. > changing the world forever

    Yeah and not for the better…what deplorable scum.

  20. Whan can I say. I was born 6 months after the ’89 Revolution against commuism. Romania was very poor, we were known because communists banned abortions and contraception methods and we had a lot of orphans being held in what were essentially concentration camps. Communism destroyed not only our economy, but the fabric of society and educated elites were sidelined or killed by the regieme.

    35 years later, after adopting liberal democracy & capitalism, we are much better off. I can enjoy the life of a middle class average european, something that my parents had no hope for ever. Still a lot of issues, but people that would want a return are either very old people, or brainwashed Gen Zs.

    All in all, fuck Communism. Fuck communists. The bolshevik turned things for the worse for everyone and the scars are still there.

  23. Positive consequences (sorta) still leave nothing to celebrate about this

  26. The revolution changed everything. The revolution divided this world between pro-US and pro-USSR. Who knows what would happen if this revolution never happened

  28. Putin sent Trump to America for the same reason the Germans sent Lenin to Russia

  29. this event did not bring anything good neither for Russia nor for the rest of the world. It only brought terror, wars and violence

  30. And 20 years later, Stalin, killed ALL the old bolsheviks.

  34. That’s bold – to post anything positive about the soviet experience or anything related to communism here. I’d have guessed it would have been downvoted through the dirt in r/europe. Super interesting dynamic.

  35. The fucking worst social experiment, ripples of which are still felt today.

    Fuck commies

  37. We who live in western democracies never ruled by communism also have a lot to be thankful for this revolution. We didn’t get the worst of it, but clearly many ideas creeped in, better labour conditions, social security, stuff like public healthcare and education… I doubt these would exist without that influence.

    They weren’t all wrong, but the totalitarianism that came with it ruined it.

  38. Thats how the communist cancer got started, the most destructive idiologi known to man

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