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From: gabor@qantel.UUCP (Gabor Fencsik@ex2642)
Newsgroups: net.politics.theory
Subject: Re: Communism as historical tragedy
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Date: Tue, 26-Nov-85 15:33:40 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov 26 15:33:40 1985
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In article <11069@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> Tom Tedrick writes:

> It seems absurd to me to think that the communists could have
> overturned the Tsarist regime without some external factor
> like a major war playing a role.

It is embarrassing to have to point out such a well-known historical fact but:
the Bolsheviks DID NOT overturn the Tsar. He was overthrown in an unplanned
and uncontrolled series of bread riots, strikes and mutinies known as the
February Revolution. Lenin found out about the Tsar's fall from the Swiss
newspapers. It is more correct to say that the Bolsheviks hijacked the
revolution that toppled the Tsar, somewhat like the mullahs' trick in Iran.

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Gabor Fencsik           {ihnp4,dual,lll-crg,hplabs,intelca}!qantel!gabor