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February and October 1917.

Two parts of the same whole.

The bullets shot from one gun.

Steps of one stairway leading to Russia's collapse.

A lot of questions haven't been answered yet.

It is still unclear how this thing, which should never have happened, came to pass.

To this day Russia hasn't completely recovered from the mayhem of those days.

After all, the USSR falling apart in 1991 is the direct consequence of what happened in 1917.

We've never learnt the truth about those days.

We haven't acknowledged how and why our state, the Russian Empire, collapsed.

We haven't learnt the lessons of the February and the October days.

And the catastrophe recurred, albeit not as bloody, not as crucial.

And today we hear new calls for resolution of Russia's problems through revolution.

The tragedies have been forgotten, the lessons haven't been learnt, the real number of victims is shrouded in secrecy.

Revolution is not about happy protesters and the collapsed state regime.

Revolution is about millions of victims, hunger, and illnesses, it is about the civil war, the fronts, where the "freed" Russians were sent to shortly after.

No revolution should ever happen again in our lands.

And that is why we need to understand how it happened before. Who is the orchestrator of our revolution?

Can a revolution have an orchestrator?

That is the main mystery of the Russian Revolution…