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Some news that would be completely mundane today but scary or shocking in the past.

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[-] alcoholicorn@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

1923, virtually every capitalist country in the world had just invaded the USSR 5 years ago, Japan only pulled out in 1922.

The USSR being gone only becomes shocking post WWII when they went from an agrarian nation wracked by civil war and famine, with zero tractor factories to sending 100,000 tanks into Germany 20 years later to putting a man in space 20 years after that.

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