Did you know? For 32 of the United States’ first 36 years, a slave-holding Virginian occupied the White House (John Adams from Massachusetts was the exception). Not only was the creation of the Electoral College in part a political workaround for the persistence of slavery in the United ...
Of course, most of the change and reform introduced in Soviet Russia was lip service at best and fiction at worst, but one can hardly deny that universal education wasn’t a thing in Russia before October, and then suddenly (if you call three years of bloody civil war sudden) it was. ...