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[โ€“] mo_lave@reddthat.com 59 points 1 year ago (22 children)

๐Ÿค 90's babies living through WW1, the Great Depression, and WW2 before they hit 50

[โ€“] Gerula@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (14 children)

For those living in Europe please add: the spanish flu pandemic so "a plague", the expansion of communism, post war reconstruction (twice).

Edit: typos

[โ€“] HerbalGamer@lemm.ee -3 points 1 year ago (13 children)

the expansion of communism

we were talking about bad things

[โ€“] FuglyTheBear@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Bolshevik Communism was the second worst thing to happen to the working class in the 20th century. Second only to the rise of corporate Capitalism. Its failure crippled any other working class revolution for the 30 plus years.

[โ€“] HerbalGamer@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago

That's a wild take

[โ€“] Aux@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago

If capitalism is bad, maybe move to North Korea already.

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