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๐ค 90's babies living through WW1, the Great Depression, and WW2 before they hit 50
For those living in Europe please add: the spanish flu pandemic so "a plague", the expansion of communism, post war reconstruction (twice).
Edit: typos
we were talking about bad things
Bolshevik Communism was the second worst thing to happen to the working class in the 20th century. Second only to the rise of corporate Capitalism. Its failure crippled any other working class revolution for the 30 plus years.
That's a wild take
If capitalism is bad, maybe move to North Korea already.