• @Maggoty
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    44 months ago

    This is why you don’t go to Wikipedia folks. It’s true they were increasing output. But standards of living were not rising for the common worker and there’s a lot of room to improve GDP when you start from a backwards position. We’ve seen the same thing in post colonial economies after world war 2. A 4% growth of 10 is not better than a 2% growth of 1,000.

    And the Army was wildly dysfunctional. They didn’t have enough weapons, ammunition, or food. And it was a major part of why the revolution happened. On the last day the Tsar ordered the army to fire on the crowds, and instead they refused and joined the crowds. Largely due to their treatment.

    • @Hlodwig
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      -34 months ago

      Bruh… The wiki page is sourced, and the army being old and dysfunctionnal was not specific to Russia only, France had an army in a shitty shape at the beginning of the War too…

      The fact that Russia was improving in all aspect before the 1917 revolution and went downhill from here, is undeniable…

      • @Maggoty
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        14 months ago

        Wiki pages being sourced isn’t the saving grace it was supposed to be. The standard is literally a web page other than Wikipedia. This has been abused both ways many times.

        And if Russia was so great, why were the people charging into gunfire to change it?