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    11 months ago

    There is a tremendous amount of cultural weight behind this. The Russian Revolution began on International Woman’s Day 1917 when crowds of women, often older, gathered in St Petersburg to protest the price of bread and the ongoing insanity of the Great War. Those women started the fire that would burn down the Czarist State