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> I too would need a half bottle of port to write about freedom and liberty while my slaves built me a countryside mansion.

Indeed, after deposing the monarchy of your mother country, and setting about to create a republic in the face of thousands of years of bloody noble rivalries over succession to the throne, a tall pint of cider is well in order.

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Thousands of years? The UK barely existed for a thousand years at that point and that's being overly generous with rounding and definitions.

In all fairness, prior to the UK being the UK, it was governed by a different set of bloody noble rivalries.

The Roman occupation lasted until the 5th century CE, which is 1.5 millenia ago. Prior to that, our knowledge about Iron Age Britain seems to be mostly sourced from Romans, with all the biases they brought in. The Celts (which is a very vague term historically) seem to have been "tribes" and engaged in foreign trade but I'm not entirely sure we have enough information to say they had a "throne" in a meaningful sense, certainly not for a span of 500 years or more (if we generously interpret "thousands" as exactly 2000 years).

Reminds me of the Bolshevik Revolution.

Except it actually resulted in a functional country.

From peasant-based aristocratic power to an industrialized superpower in not many decades. Seems functional to me.

Give me 3 examples of Bolshevik influence that still remain today.

You don't even need to give me positive examples, just examples.

Gazprom? Maybe someone else will come up with the other 2

Why are you moving the goal post? The country was functional although it didn’t last forever, and was eventually disbanded.

There's no goalpost moving. The point is that the USSR was so successful that no one wants to copy its legacy nor did anyone want to emigrate there.

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