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"History has practically zero examples of foreign-caused popular revolts"

You should go take a look at what Lenin and many other communists was doing and where he was physically right before the October revolution...

Also, Haiti slave revolt was heavily influenced by the French revolution.

Also, uhh the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom?

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> You should go take a look at what Lenin and many other communists was doing and where he was physically right before the October revolution

To what effect? The only other successful Communist revolution prior to the conclusion of the October revolution was the one in Mongolia [1]. It built on decade-old revolutionary ground [2]. (Finland, meanwhile, was seceding from White Russia.)

Trying to cause a revolution from abroad just doesn't work. Exhibit A: right now.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_revolution#Successfu...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1911_Revolution

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