November 7

[blackhawknj]

100th Anniversary of the Russian "Revolution"-actually Bolshevik coup d'état against the Provisional Government.
Yes, I know. They failed because we fought against them.
"Communism killed 100 million people and all I got was this lousy t-shirt."

[RED]

I love history but you have some new revelations here with this post I didn't know about... For example the "100th Anniversary of the Russian Bolshevik coup d'état against the Provisional Government... failed because we fought against them."

Thank you for sharing that, I didn't know the "the coup d'etat," failed. I always thought it was successful and Vladimar Ilyich Ulanov gained power. I didn't know the U.S. fought against the coup or that the communists (Bolsheviks) killed 100 million people on October 25 (November 7 NS) 1917.

[JB White]

Red, I think that was three separate statements. The third being tongue-in-cheek humor. At least that's the way I interpreted it.

[RED]

Red, I think that was three separate statements. The third being tongue-in-cheek humor. At least that's the way I interpreted it.

I actually thought that the core of the post was that we fought against the Communists and 100 million people died and it was our fault. I read it about 10X and that is what I came away with. Of course the truth of the matter is we were allies with the USSR when most of the killing was done by the Communists and we didn't actively oppose them until the post WWII "Cold War" era 40+ years after Lenin took power in 1917. The USSR didn't come about until the end of 1922.

[togor]

Don't think it's quite accurate to say we had an alliance with the USSR during the period of forced collectivization. Alliance as I understood it was a '41-45 affair.

[Ken The Kanuck]

Here are a few other things that happened on this date:

KTK

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On this day in history
1665: The London Gazette, the oldest surviving journal, is first published.
1881: Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday, two participants in Tombstone, Arizona’s, famous Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, are jailed as the hearings on what happened in the fight grow near.
1916: President Woodrow Wilson is re-elected, but the race is so close that all votes must be counted before an outcome can be determined, so the results are not known until November 11.
1916: Jeannette Rankin (R-Montana) is elected the first congresswoman.
1917: The Bolsheviks, led by Lenin, take power in Russia.
1921: Benito Mussolini declares himself to be the leader of the National Fascist Party in Italy.
1940: The Tacoma Bridge in Washington State collapses.
1944: President Franklin D. Roosevelt is elected to a fourth term by defeating Thomas Dewey.
1967: In Cleveland, Ohio, Carl B. Stokes becomes the first African-American elected mayor of a major American city.
1972: President Richard Nixon is re-elected.
1973: Congress overrides Pres. Richard M. Nixon’s veto of the War Powers Resolution that limited presidential power to wage war without congressional approval.
1994: The world’s first internet radio broadcast originates from WXYC, the student radio station of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
2000: Hillary Rodham Clinton becomes the first First Lady elected to public office in the U.S. when she wins a U.S. Senate seat.
2000: Election Day in the U.S. ends with the winner between presidential candidates George W. Bush and Al Gore still undecided

[blackhawknj]

1. Communism failed because we rotten bourgeois capitalists wouldn't leave them in peace.
2. After WWII Churchill expressed sympathy for the USSR's high casualties, military and civilian. Stalin shrugged and said collectivization cost them more.
3. The PRC admits to a death toll of 20 million for the Great leap Forward. More careful research indicates a toll of 40 million.
4. Look up "Communism killed 100 million" on Google images and you'll see the t-shirt.

[Tommy]

Any DemocRATS in the body count?

Tommy