Regarding the Bolsheviks – sorry, I made a mistake. We would have won the war even without the revolution; in fact, we would have had far fewer casualties because there wouldn't have been the partisan "cannon fodder" – people who died simply because they were forbidden from retreating. And let's not start with the argument that "they played an important role in this way." They were given weapons that were only good for putting cats to sleep, and they died under the fire of professional German machine gunners, completely uselessly! They couldn't even go on the attack to at least die with some purpose. Stalin said, "hold the positions," and that was it. No discussion. No one dared to argue with him, even when the strategic mistakes were obvious. Thank you, Stalin, for our "bright future"! :mad: I feel sick just hearing his name, and that's saying something, considering I'm a Christian! However, arguing about what would have been better now is pointless. 40 million dead cannot be brought back. What's done is done. I know that the Soviet Union was perhaps the strongest sporting nation, but I wouldn't call that compensation for the deaths of tens of millions. Finally, I'll add one "what if." If there had been no revolution, who knows, maybe there wouldn't have been a second world war. After coming to power, the Bolsheviks almost immediately withdrew from the war, saying that "your bourgeois squabbles don't concern us." Left without an ally, Europe was limited to the Treaty of Versailles. If Russia had continued the war, it would have worn out the Germans so much that even Hitler wouldn't have thought about a "second attempt." But, as they say, "if only..."