The most important event of the 20th century?

[rightwinger]

Woodstock

 

[whitehall]

Russian patriots might add the Berlin Wall to their list of 20th century triumphs. Russians could shoot Germans in the back for trying to visit relatives in outlawed neighborhoods. Way to go Russia.

 

[Thunderbird]

Moon landing 1969

"Tear down this wall!" 1989

 

[2lit2politic]

Moon landing in the 60s without a doubt. That wasn't just the most important event of the 20th century, but history itself! First time we actually left our planet and came back in one piece. A seemingly insurmountable achievement like that makes everything else look like chump change. It's so amazing that it happened that people can't even wrap their heads around it. It's no wonder people call conspiracy.

 

[Viacheslav]

The Russian Revolution was a grand experiment

It failed

Not the Russian Revolution exactly, the Russian Revolution was an "expected" event, in order to change the regime of absolute monarchy to a "bourgeois" system as it happened in many countries. But then, yes, in the USSR, an experiment began on the construction of socialism, which failed at the end.

 

[Mr Natural]

“Ladies and gentlemen, The Beatles!”

 

[frigidweirdo]

The most important event of the 20th century is
1.
The Great October Socialist Revolution ...
in Russia in 1917
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Why?
The answer is very simple:
The entire 20th century is a confrontation between "Capitalism" and "Socialism"
All the other "Scientific, Military, Cultural" discoveries are just the consequences of the Revolution in Russia ...

The following:
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2.
The defeat of Nazism in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945, when the Soviet people, having lost 27 million citizens, liberated Europe, destroyed Hitler, and also killed the "fascist ideology"

2.1. Victory in the Second World War 1939-1945 coalition: USSR, UK and America
(France included in this list by Stalin!)
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3. The Americans invented the atomic bomb
This deepened the contradictions between the USSR and the US
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4. Exit to Space
- The First Sputnik, which launched the USSR
- The First Person in Space, who was a citizen of the USSR
- The First Man on the Moon, who was a US citizen

Then potentially WW1 is more important.

Without WW1 you might never have had the revolution. It also got rid of the Hapsburg Empire, the German Empire, also the Ottoman Empire was finally extinguished.

It lead to WW2 which destroyed the Nazis but allowed the Stalin to get much stronger grip on the USSR.

 

[Viacheslav]

Russians could shoot Germans in the back for trying to visit relatives in outlawed neighborhoods. Way to go Russia.

Only Russians? The Germans shot themselves very well for trying to visit relatives, you can just googling about stasi. There is a very good film about this "The Lives of Others"

 

[Litwin]

The most important event of the 20th century is
1.
The Great October Socialist Revolution ...
in Russia in 1917
-------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------
Why?
The answer is very simple:
The entire 20th century is a confrontation between "Capitalism" and "Socialism"
All the other "Scientific, Military, Cultural" discoveries are just the consequences of the Revolution in Russia ...

The following:
================================================== ========
2.
The defeat of Nazism in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945, when the Soviet people, having lost 27 million citizens, liberated Europe, destroyed Hitler, and also killed the "fascist ideology"

2.1. Victory in the Second World War 1939-1945 coalition: USSR, UK and America
(France included in this list by Stalin!)
-------------------------------------------------- -----------------------------------
3. The Americans invented the atomic bomb
This deepened the contradictions between the USSR and the US
-------------------------------------------------- -----------------------------------
4. Exit to Space
- The First Sputnik, which launched the USSR
- The First Person in Space, who was a citizen of the USSR
- The First Man on the Moon, who was a US citizen

1) 1991
de - communization , De-moskalization & de-mongolization of Europe/World

 

[MisterBeale]

The Americans ...
Who was the First in Space?

Laika

 

[Litwin]

Russian patriots might add the Berlin Wall to their list of 20th century triumphs. Russians could shoot Germans in the back for trying to visit relatives in outlawed neighborhoods. Way to go Russia.

+ GULAG, Kurapaty, holodomor, and Katyn´

Kurapaty - Wikipedia

 

[Moonglow]

Fortunately, the idea of Communism was preserved in China ..
The USSR lost ... Unfortunately ...
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And what is "Communism"?
I'm interested to hear how the Americans think ...

By the way ...
I'm not a Communist, but I know Marxism ...

Me to

 

[MisterBeale]

Anyway, the most significant event in the 20th century was probably the signing of the 1954 Greada Treaty.

 

[Moonglow]

The Americans ...
Who was the First in Space?

Not the same guys that landed on the moon...

 

[Inmar]

The Americans ...
Who was the First in Space?

Laika

Sputnik

 

[Inmar]

Govno natsii knows how to fight only with monuments

 

[petro]

Cellular technology and the internet.
Has a had a profound effect on humanity, for the good and bad.

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

Moon landing in the 60s without a doubt. That wasn't just the most important event of the 20th century, but history itself! First time we actually left our planet and came back in one piece. A seemingly insurmountable achievement like that makes everything else look like chump change. It's so amazing that it happened that people can't even wrap their heads around it. It's no wonder people call conspiracy.

The Moon and Sixpence

Mindless childish escapism. A sign of giving up on developing the Earth's resources, which have been barely scratched.

 

[OldLady]

The formulations of Albert Einstein. They changed the modern world in some of the most profound ways.

Albert and the computer have to battle for first place. We wouldn't be anyplace close to where we are without both.

 

[Sunni Man]

Who was the First in Space?

A notable scientific and engineering achievement by the USSR..

But the ultimate bragging rights go to the USA for putting the 1st man on the moon. ...