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We all know what happened to Czar Nicholas and his conscripts
They were told to pick up rifles from the dead and fight the Germans, those men took those Mosin nagant rifles and Maxim machine guns went home and used it on Nicholas. The Soviet state was born out of civil war and then in the 1990’s we saw the revolution of the Oligarchs
Just a observation History rinse and repeat.