| It would seam that a stage is set for uprooting of all good values we\'ve enjoyed and lived by since the last WW. The question now is; are we heading into a new reset of mankind? Some of the symptoms that led to French and Russian Revolutions are strikingly the same; failing economy, rising of taxes, scarcity of food and other goods, natural disasters, new radical ideologies being taught to our children at school level. I\'m bringing out here some facts from the past, as a way of a reminder that history can repeat itself when it\'s lessons are forgotten.
Please read the following facts which lead to such global changes;
"France was nearly bankrupt from both the Seven Years\' War and from helping the Americans during their Revolutionary War. The economic strain increased tension between the economic classes in France, which helped lead to the French Revolution.
Prior to the French Revolution, France\'s finance minister, Jacques Necker, suggested the royal family adopt a budget to save money. He was promptly fired.
Several factors led to the Revolution, including increasing economic inequality, environmental disasters, national debt, and political ideas from the Enlightenment.
The Phrygian cap (similar to the cap Smurfs wear) was a symbol of the revolution. In ancient Rome, slaves were given the cap when they were set free.
One of the symbols of the French Revolution was the fasces. A fasces is a bundle of wooden rods tied around an ax and is the root of the word fascist. In Ancient Rome, the fasces represented the unity and power of the people.
Robespierre, a leader of the Reign of Terror, replaced Catholicism with a so-called religion named the "Cult of the Supreme Being," with himself as the head.
Before the French Revolution, a hailstorm wiped out crops, leading to widespread food shortages and creating inflated bread prices.
The French Revolution went through several stages and finally culminated in a dictatorship under Napoleon.
The storming of the Bastille marks the unofficial beginning of the French Revolution, and France celebrates Bastille Day as a national holiday on July 14.
The French Revolution had many long-lasting effects on modern history, including triggering the decline of absolute monarchies around the world and unleashing a wave of global conflicts.
The French Revolution is one of the most important events in human history. It resulted in the rise of modern nationalism, decline of the power of the Catholic Church, the spread of liberalism, and it ushered in the age of revolutions.
Over 10,000 African slaves were freed as a result of the French Revolution in 1794. However, Napoleon restored slavery and the slave trade in 1802.
Maximilien Robespierre, a bourgeois lawyer, triggered the most bloody chapter of the French Revolution, known as the Reign of Terror. Between 1793–1794 alone there were 16,694 death sentences
In France, a taille was a tax on wages and land. Only the Third Estate (the peasants) had to pay it. This inequality helped trigger the French Revolution. Those who could afford to pay taxes, the upper class, paid hardly any taxes at all.["_50 Amazing French Revolution Facts
I have left "out" some gory bits of French Revolution on purpose and the paragraphs are not in a strict order of the article written by Karin Lehnardt,
https://www.factretriever.com/french-revolution
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Russian-Revolution
"On February 23 (March 8, New Style), 1917, the revolution began, but it was neither organized nor immediately recognized as such by any of the existing parties or political groups. Strikes for higher wages at some of Petrograd’s factories had been occurring sporadically for some time, and on that day no fewer than 130,000 men were picketing.
To this total must be added the considerable number of female workers who were celebrating International Women’s Day. The number of strikers and their sympathizers was large, and although several bakers’ shops were demolished by the mob, neither the leaders of the Duma on the one hand nor the imperial government and the police on the other gave the matter any particular attention.
The only precaution taken by the authorities was to prevent the demonstrators from reaching the centre of the city.
The next day the strikers were still more numerous and probably amounted to 30 percent of all workers in Petrograd. Some sections of the crowd succeeded in reaching the city centre, and their mood soon became threatening. On that day university students joined the movement, but the primary concern of protesters remained the food shortages that had plagued the capital. Only a few cries were raised denouncing the autocracy and the war.
Even after the Duma had allowed itself to be prorogued and the garrison had revolted, Mikhail Rodzianko, speaker of the Duma, attempted to salvage the old regime. He not only sent urgent telegrams to the tsar and the leading generals pointing out the necessity of saving the monarchy and the country by conceding the necessary reforms but even held consultations with the very ministers whom he had denounced as treasonable. The vision of the tsar was equally myopic.
So blind was he to the facts of the situation that even at this hour he flatly rejected the appeals of the Duma and refused to believe that the strike had culminated in a revolution. When he and his advisers at last learned that the revolt of the Petrograd troops had endangered the existence of the monarchy, they immediately ordered a number of regiments from various parts of the front to proceed to the capital."_Russian history [1917]
read more_https://www.britannica.com/event/Russian-Revolution/The-February-Revolution
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