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Re:112 Gripes About the French by coldtea on Saturday July 17, 2021 @09:34AM (#27865659)
>Arguably they only paid such a high price due to their industrial underdevelopment which was partly due to their economic and political system.

Very arguably, as it's actually the opposite: the socialism forced mass force industrialization, and prepared USSR better for WWII than Russia ever had any chance of being.

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Re:112 Gripes About the French by SiempreViernes on Saturday July 17, 2021 @11:10AM (#27866313)
Well, technically the Tsardom is also a economic and political system.
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Re:112 Gripes About the French by coldtea on Saturday July 17, 2021 @12:08PM (#27866749)
Yes, it just wasn't a very effective one in comparison... In fact it was dying for decades before 1905 and finally 1917 put it out of its misery...
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