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    Western media replies, “It never happened; Russians have always been enemies of the Western world.”

    As someone who consumes a great deal of Western media, I have never heard this claim anywhere, from anyone, before now.

    And “the Communist Revolution was secretly funded by the West to sabotage the glory of Imperial Russia” is also something I’ve never heard, though it is certainly one of the takes of all time.

    Western-based international banker financial support for the Bolsheviks…

    Oh, nevermind. That I’ve heard before.

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      the Communist Revolution was secretly funded by the West to sabotage the glory of Imperial Russia” is also something I’ve never heard,

      Really? “Lenin is a German/British/[insert enemy]” spy has been a conspiracy for decades, pretty much since 1917 itself. It’s especially popular in Russia. Putin himself proclaimed that “Lenin has laid a landmine under Russia” in an official speech. I don’t know how you haven’t heard that one.

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        Probably because I don’t live in Russia or follow Russian media. Anyway, TIL a new conspiracy theory 😆