On November 7th, 1917, In Petrograd, Russia, Bolshevik leaders Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky lead revolutionaries in overthrowing the Provisional Government, and thus giving power to the Soviets."Hey asshole, that's not American history!" You might exclaim while eating cake frosting and watching CSI. It's true, this was a important part of Russian history, but this single event would help shape the United States we have today. Opening a new front in WW2, giving Joseph McCarthy a reason to be put in history books, inadvertently getting us on the moon, and hiring really good graphic artists to make semi-enslavement propaganda "hip" to kids today, it's a fact that without the Soviet Union, the US would be a completely different place.
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You forgot to mention that had it not been for the space race between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, dozens of monkeys would not have had the opportunity to get launched into space.
--Melissa
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