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It was 100 years ago today, that Vladimir Lenin launched his Bolshevik seizure of power in Russia, ending the Provisional Kerensky government's efforts to preserve democracy after the March abdication of Tsar Michael Romonov. The result was the entrenchment of an imperialist dictatorship spawning several more over the next several decades. While the original Soviet Empire imploded, there are still communist dictatorships in existence in China, Cuba, North Korea, Vietnam and Laos, and one can only hope they will experience a more tranquil transition to democracy than some of the former Soviet Bloc's remnants. Here is a summary of it's history from The Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...-century-of-communism/?utm_term=.36067efc297e