consequences of Russian Revolutions on Europe

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Originally posted by TheDiplomat

Originally posted by Aelfgifu

Originally posted by pekau

Karl Marx' communist manefisto, Operation Barbarossa, discovery of nuclear weapons, etc... the list goes on... 

?? How so?

Karl Marx is a cause of the revolution, not a consequence, and the other two are consequenses of WWII, not of the Russian Revolution.

Actually, Operation Barbarossa was a crusade against '' The Bolshevik Horde''... The reason that lies behind why many German industralists helped Hitler and Nazi Party come to power by funding them was the very fact that they were afraid of Communist ideas gaining ground in Germany. So, The Bolshevik Revolution surely had an impact on the Nazi Rise to Power, therefore The Second World War, and eventually The Cold War.

Without doubt, The Bolshevik Revolution was the most important political event of 20.century.

p.s: I think Bolshevik revolution fits the name of the 1917 revolution
better than Russian Revolution for the very fact that this revolution was not all Russian but red. The Russian Civil War of 1918-20, the seperation of the Russian society into the Whites and The Reds led me to this conclusion. '

Just to build on to TheDiplomat, Operation Barbarossa was also the attempt to strike the growing Soviet power before Russians were prepared to wage war against Soviet Union. While some argues that Operation Barbarossa was a total sucide, I disagree. One way or another, there will be a war between Soviet Union and Nazi Germany. Stalin did not even consider a war against Germans until the Britain is taken out, and the warnings of German invasion was ignored as the British' act to get Russians into war. Germans get advantage if they struck with suprise, with impressive advance. If not for Hitler's foolish decisions in the Kursk, Stalingrad, and coming as liberators.... Operation Barbarossa would have been an impressive success. I am not saying that Russians would be taken out in few months like France, but the victory over Russians is very possible.