Revolution By Maria Alyokhina

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This fine year of 2017 marks the 100 year anniversary of a revolution the shaped Russia to what we see it as today. In 1917 large numbers of people gathered into what is now known as St.Petersburg. Czar Nicholas the 2nd of the royal russian family decided to abdicate the throne. He and his family were executed during the takeover of Russia. Vladimir Ilich Lenin tells a crowd formed in Moscow that as the leader of the Bolsheviks he established the the foundation of communist rule under what has came to be the soviet union.

Maria Alyokhina an activist tells us her thoughts about what revolution means today. Alyokhina talks about how we speak of revolution like a project when in reality it is not something we can begin and end, revolution is life. She says that “In every protest there is a moment of despair so every individual who engages in a fight against the injustice, comes to see that an overthrow will not happen at once”.
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The thing is simply rioting and protesting is a form of revolution in itself. These ideas of disliking to our government and nation is a growing and ever evolving step towards revolution. We look at life with blinders on, nobody in our society is aware of the full story in a situation. We as people need to see that people have differentiating opinions, and that we can be aware that everything we do there will be an opposing side to what you have to say. We live in a world of revolution so let us be able to accept

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