Message from @The Real Head Honcho
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They could have probably won
But Russia would become a rump state
Rump state?
>the whites
It would be more powerful than USSR with its degeneracy would even dream.
Imagine
Imagine thinking a pro-tsarist system would ever work
Oh lord
Oh dios mio
Ahahahahaha
You’re joking right
the collapse of the Czar was inevitable
@Heterosexual Gamer Monarchist lmao no
@Heterosexual Gamer Monarchist do you have any fucking idea how divided the whites were
Collapse of Tsardom was inevitable after 1861
The civil war would have lasted much longer
And not to mention the dozens of nationalist movements
Hell, 1855
There's a very good chance that there would be another civil war, they were a lot like the Republicans in Spain, heavily divided, but only united because of a common threat
I’d say 1881 with the death of Alexander II
@Honey Beanger Alexander II was the root of the problem
the strength of the USSR was precisely that it was
a) internationalist
b) class based
so it was able to not only beat back the whites using the unified lower classes, but also was able to expand beyond the Empire's then-borders *because* it could accommodate everyone
His early forms and Emancipation fucked the tsars
@The Real Head Honcho How liberation of slaves is bad?
Okay let me put it to you like this
If emancipation never happened the system would have collapsed into bloody revolt much earlier
oh yes
it would've fallen sooner
For hundreds of years your entire state and economy runs on a serf-based state
Its established and entirely dependent on that
the 1905 revolution would've come sooner and instead of being failure would've succeeded, bare minimum
All of a sudden, that is abolished with no clear alternative, and the nation plunges downwards economically and socially
Tell me that is a good choice
In any capacity
The nation really didn’t plunge downward economically
It opened the door for industrialization and allowed the peasants to migrate to centers of industry
@Honey Beanger export and foreign investment plummeted until the 1890s
you had the communists and Narodniks and a whole bunch of people spreading revolutionary ideologies of varying types among the Russian lower classes who were embittered and angry, it was always going to end up this way
For a good 20 years Russia was in free fall
the Empire was stagnant and was going nowhere