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Originally Posted by xelasnave
This is not a joke but do you know which profession survived the horror of the Russian revolution?
Alex
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Originally Posted by sharpiel
Well it could be Leninist agitators? Or Marxist revolutionaries...? Prostitutes..? Fishermen (hehe)?
Tell me Alex!!
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Generally Marxists/Leninists didn't survive the revolution. Great numbers died fighting in the civil war (eg. no Kronstadt sailors survived) and the rest perished under Stalin. I believe that by the early 1930s there were no Old Bolsheviks left in Russia and in 1940 the last survivor of that generation, Trotsky, was assassinated in Mexico by the KGB.
Prostitutes survived but they had a rough time of it in some places. In April 1917 (ie 6 months before the October revolution) the sailors' soviet on the fortress island of Kronstadt declared themselves the sole authority on that island. Understanding that they were in a life and death struggle they enforced strict discipline. Gambling was banned, prostitutes were run off the island and any sailor caught intoxicated was sent to the front.
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Lawyers and journalists are two professions where you can joke that 'it's 95% of them that give the rest a bad name'. Some journalist do wonderful work (eg exposing the underpaying and ripping off of 7-11 workers and casual farm labour) but others are total scum who simply print the lies their masters want spread. Similarly with lawyers, some protect human rights while others protect criminals with money. In fact, probably only a few percent of them are scum and only a few are exemplary; the rest are pretty normal people who lie somewhere in between.