Let's try and get 1,000,000 replies to this post

[Saapanael]

Yeah, and all the babies are saying: "Waaaah, I wanted the 100,000th reply! Waah."

 

[CriedWhenBrucieLeft]

You should listen to the voice inside of you.

 

[Wogmidget]

Eh, you've not missed much - just a large dollop of @Black Wizard's gif collection

 

[Saapanael]

I guessed correctly that it would happen in November, probably not the right date though.

 

[Black Wizard]

8/11/17 #NeverForget

 

[CriedWhenBrucieLeft]

There were no prizes for that Saap. We don't care.

 

[Wogmidget]

8/11/17 #NeverForget

 

[Dr. Eddies Wingman]

Salad isn't food

Correct, it is what food eats.

 

[Dr. Eddies Wingman]

<nasal Cockney voice>
Awww, I fuckin' missed it ...
</nasal Cockney voice>

 

[Brigantium]

I couldn't decide whether to read that with a high pitched Cockney geezer voice, or a Ray Winstone thug voice.

 

[Deleted member 7164]

Anniversary of the October revolution. Found good post on reddit

The next thing that follows will be civil war (1917-1922). Millions of deaths under Red and White banners. Repressions against peasantry and former Aristocracy. White and Red terrors. Death of Lenin. Stalins Rise to power. Mass killings, GULagas, destruction (almost) of Fourth Internationale...

But what also revolution and Bolsheviks brought to Russia?

Electricity. In 1917 Russia had 75 electric stations. In 1927 there were 858. In 1917 there were 542 of villages electrified. 89739 In 1927. 2400% rise in electric energy consumed in the 1940. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GOELRO_plan, also, for comparison, in 1930, fewer than 10% of farms in the US had access to electricity. http://voxeu.org/article/us-electrification-1930s)

Literacy. It is estimated that in 1917 only 35-38 % of population were literate in country. Almost 80,9% in cities and 50,6 % in rural country by 1926. 90% in 1940. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Likbez)

Free healthcare. From 1918 to 1927 more 40 medical research institutions founded. Woman consultation services - (not even a thing in 1917, more than 2200 institutions in 1928 to 8600 in 1940). Maternity hospitals. The right to free healthcare guarnteed by Stalins constitution in 1936.

I can continue this list further, counting increase in public transportation, civil services, even the regulated central heating system in almost every major city (in a cold, northen country)... But I won't. I want just to make a point. Revolution, while bringing a mass suffering for a lot of people - also brought a lot of good to them.

Don't be "Black and White", guys. It's always more compliicated than that.

 

[Diesel 11]

What the fuck.

 

[Diesel 11]

I'm not prepared for 1,000,000. I need time. Jesus, shit.

 

[Saapanael]

Anniversary of the October revolution. Found good post on reddit

I find it scary that there are (were) probably well over 100 000 villages in Russia. That’s more villages than posts in this thread.

 

[Lampwick 43]

Of course 100k happens at 4:40 am on a Wednesday

 

[The Flash]

Fecking hell I missed it. I was going to write Dennis Wilcock did 9/11 or Is this the longest thread is, both of which would clearly be better.

 

[Lampwick 43]

Let's try and get 1,000,000 replies to this post

 

[Dr. Eddies Wingman]

Words, just words.

They come easy.

 

[LooseCannon]

I don't know what you guys are celebrating. There's still 899944 to go.

 

[Lampwick 43]

Let's do a little math: 100,000 replies took a total of 5,671 days. (April 30, 2002 to now)

At that pace, we will reach 1,000,000 on...

Spoiler

August 5, 2157