This might seem like a deep cut — like some esoteric trivia that no one would ever need to know — but it’s one of the most important historical facts that you never learn in school: The Bolsheviks never won more than 30% of the vote in Russia in any election.
They were never close to obtaining the support of a majority of the population. In fact, they were widely detested. As it turns out, Russians did not want to empty their bank accounts at gunpoint and transfer all of their money to the government. They didn’t want the government to seize private property and arrest the clergy. They didn’t want the government to take the grain from the peasants, causing mass starvation. But all of this happened anyway.


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