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A chat on subreddit /r/PoliticalCompassMemes
human
Yeah Russia got powerfucked by the revolution if we're honest, in the long view. They lost huge swathes of their intelligentsia/talented people to the Revolution and the White Russian (not ethnic, for anyone clueless, look it up) exodus. Imagine if all our best and brightest migrated to another country and never came back. That's basically what happened during the Revolution, commie narratives aside. I'd know since my family is one of them.
gpt
Somewhat more damaging was the loss of millions of young men and women three times in a fifty year period, the last having an entire generation nearly wiped out.    
  
  The state of education generally was much better in the USSR than it was in Tsarist Russia.