A communist coup in Moscow would be a bit on the nose, but I’d allow it
this post was submitted on 22 Apr 2026
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Ill pencil it in for early October
Julian or Gregorian calendar? I want to get this right this time
Let's go with Julian, and if not enough people show up that day we'll go Full Greg.
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It's not like last time where the Russian empire is caught up in a war of attrition in Eastern Europe... oh wait.
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"He emphasized that such a scenario must not be allowed to happen."
Controlled opposition.
leader of a communist party warns against starting a communist revolution
mrw
Sounds to me more like a nudge nudge, wink wink sentence to avoid 25 years of prison in Siberia.
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Maybe, but I don't think that the conditions are nearly as bad as they were in 1917. They're obviously worse than they would have been had Russia not entered into the war, but the collapse in 1917 was due to urban food shortages. I don't mean "luxury X is unavailable", but that people couldn't get staple food to survive because of demands of the war.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/russias-february-revolution-was-led-women-march-180962218/
Like the French Revolution in 1789, a bread shortage in the capital precipitated unrest. After long shifts in the factories, female factory workers stood in bread lines alongside other women including domestic servants, housewives and soldiers’ widows. In these bread lines, news and rumors about planned rationing spread. When Saint Petersburg municipal authorities announced on March 4 that rationing would begin ten days later, there was widespread panic; bakeries were sacked, their windows broken and supplies stolen.
As he had throughout the previous months, Nicholas once again underestimated the extent of the unrest and again departed for military headquarters more than 400 miles away in Mogliev, which is now in Belarus, against the advice of his ministers. In the czar’s mind, leadership of the military took precedence during wartime, and he was concerned by the mass desertions occurring in the aftermath of munitions shortages and defeats at the hands of the Germans.
Though in past moments of revolutionary sentiment, the military had stood by its czar, by 1917, the armed force was demoralized and sympathetic to the demonstrators’ cause. The presence of large groups of women among the demonstrators made soldiers particularly reluctant to fire on the crowds. When the soldiers joined the demonstrators, as opposed to firing upon them, the end of the Romanov dynasty was near.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/guides/ztyk87h/revision/5
There was a severe lack of food in Moscow and, in 1917, Petrograd only received half of the grain required to feed its citizens.
Now, okay. It's possible that standards for political support are different, that the bar has changed. But the public in Russia of 2026
though it may be in a worse state than Russia of 2020 due to resources consumed by the war
is also not experiencing the degree of deprivation of Russia of 1917.
That is definitely true, but 21st century examples of revolution don't necessarily need a food shortage to begin (Maidan, Nepal, etc.)
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This is consistently true of most revolutions. Once a lot of people are staring at the possibility of starvation you hit critical mass on people with nothing to lose.
It’s true. Looking back on revolutions, starvation is a common cause. What we haven’t seen is a relatively better off population revolt because their conditions got notably worse, from pretty good to pretty bad but not close to starvation.
Isn't that party in Russia super pro-government? Essentially controlled oposition?
New boss is the old boss.
"we won the revolution!
now get back to work!"
Warns of the Risk of a Revolution in Russia
Isn't it, like, his job to make this happen?
I'm pretty sure any real communists in Russia would be brutally repressed.
Oh, soviet union 2. Now with more soviets.
Soviet Union 2: Electric Bogaloo.
Electric Gulag-loo
Oops! All Commies
God damn, that was a good one!!
It'd be nice is Russia can take back itself from that dick-tater... Get rid of all of Putin's ilk, elect a decent person as president., power wash the stench away, peace talks with their neighbors, condemnation of the US Pedo Party. All that good stuff.
Highly doubt it will happen.
Damn, I want that for the US!
Take it back to what, though? The 1990s? I guess that’d be an improvement. What they really need is progress. Is there any kind of progressive movement in Russia?
There was, but it was all stomped in the very beginning.
It would not be an improvement - do you have any idea how bad the 1990s were in Russia?
There's a reason that Putin has high support, and it's not all manufactured. It's that the Yeltsin shock therapy was really traumatic - largest peacetime drop in life expectancy in recorded history.
Simpsons did it
Russian jokes still write themselves
In Soviet Russia, joke writes you!
Oh well. As a certain ballistic missile submarine Captain once observed: A revolution every now and again, is a healthy thing.
Good wipe Putin off the map
We’re gonna see that in the US before we see it in Russia. At least Russians have free education and free healthcare mandated by their constitution.
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I support it. I have no love for the early USSR, but I see its fall as a historical tragedy
Communism sucks but even that would be better than Putin.
All communism?
Soviet communism was a disaster. Chinese communism works but is authoritarian. Israeli kibbutzes are pretty-much communism.
Ya forgot about Yugoslavias mixed system which also worked pretty well.
All communism?
Yeah, seems so.
Chinese communism works but is authoritarian.
From the POV of a communist I'm sure there's a lot more in chinese communism to critique than just the authoritarianism. Like the existence of a billionaire class, private ownership of means of production, lack of independent labor unions, pretty high income inequality, market economy, and pretty western-looking consumerism. I mean it's pretty much like USA if USA only had one political party.
I'm not advocating for the Chinese approach or for communism at all. My point about China is that it has improved living standards (pretty spectacularly) while others have failed.
If I could choose anything it would be like scandi-social-democracy, but with stronger controls on corporate and personal greed. I'd make hoarding wealth while others suffer socially unnaceptable.
"Socialism with Chinese characteristics" is just capitalism with extra steps and a red paint job.
If you're talking about the Mao Zedong era, that was also a disaster but at least they did try to run the country according to communist principles. They were just very bad at it.
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