Marxism comes and goes, and Russia makes the same mistakes - feed its serfs into a meat grinder.
Crimean War: 450,015 dead
Russo-Japanese War: Navy lost
WWII: 27 million dead
@Bix
They're losing to a country that doesn't have a navy, tho. They're really going for the Guiness Book of Records.
@EileenKCarpenter @InUnfunky
I am thinking about Fyodor Dostoevsky being sent to Siberia because his opposed Russia's corruption (Petrashevsky Circle). The Motherland is still in corruption's grip.
@Bix @InUnfunky
It's not a bug, it's a feature. If EVERYONE is corrupt, and everyone knows that everyone else knows they are corrupt, then no one can oppose the party/party leader. Step out of line and you can be sent to Siberia because of crimes that can be legitimately proved. They last thing they want is an ethical, competent underling.