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[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

The context is that both quality of life and life expectanc were far worse before the revolution. Revolutions are always messy, but the end result was clearly positive and vastly improved lives of hundreds of millions of people and continues to improve lives of over 1.4 billion people today.