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Today is the 100th anniversary of the October Revolution in Russia. I thought it'd be appropriate to list the travesties that resulted from this and think about how much better we'd all be if it had been stopped.

Horrendous Dictators:
Stalin
Mao
Pol Pot
The Kims
Castro
and many more

Cold War:
Wasteful Arms Race
Risk of Nuclear War
Vietnam
Korea
Afghanistan
Nicaragua
Guatemala

Communism:
Starvation
Stagnation
Deprivation of human rights
Misery

Fascism (result of the fear of communism):
Hitler
Mussolini
Holocaust
World War 2

If things had gone a little differently in Petrograd a century ago, we'd have gotten a very different 20th century.
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