For decades, the Soviet Union celebrated the October Revolution, which brought the communist Bolsheviks to power in Russia.
Nowadays, there’s much less celebration.
The October Revolution, which took place in November 1917 under the modern Gregorian calendar, led to the rise of the Soviet Union and created the world’s first communist government. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, most Russians now see it as the “October Coup,” and have mixed feelings about the empire the Bolsheviks built.
Soviet propaganda made the storming of the Tsar’s Winter Palace an iconic legend of the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution. None was more …read more
Source: Voice of America
