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Warpy

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6. The Russian Revolution in 1917 also started with women marching
Sun Oct 9, 2022, 05:20 PM
Oct 2022

and generally raising hell over the oppressive policies of the Czar and his henchmen and the appalling conditions of soldiers at the front, more poorly supplied and trained than the ones in Ukraine today, while their families were left to go hungry. When it looked like it might actually succeed, the men jumped into it and took over.

I've always said sourly that's why it ultimately failed and installed the Party as a de facto new aristocracy, Lenin as Czar.

Personally, I want to bring back Sheela na Gig and install her in all the offices of men who think they can get away with running things without us. You find her in Europe, especially England and Ireland, in churches and castles built in the Dark Ages.

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