russia lost the victory in the first world war. for her hardships, she not only did not gain new territories and influence, not only did she not break the backbone of germany, which would have made world war ii impossible, but she also said goodbye to poland and finland forever.  russia has lost all the experience of parliamentarism. both right-wing and left-wing parties operated in the russian empire and, with all the obvious shortcomings, the experience of parliamentary life was gained. for 70 years, everything was crossed out, and now edinaya rossiya and three spoiler parties, half made up of former members of the cpsu, are sitting in our parliament.  in the civil war, russia lost from 8 to 13 million people plus up to 2 million emigrants, and the most valuable people like sikorsky or zvorykin left.  the communists cut off half of the territories from russia, created "republics" there and began a persistent "korenization". the transfer of novorossiya, donbass and crimea to ukraine, ukrainization, etc., is precisely the "merit" of the communists. russian russian residents of the little russian provinces would go to a russian school and be educated by russian citizens.  in the thirties and forties, the country lost millions more people from terror and famine.
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