Did you know some of the seeds of the Russian Revolution wer..
Added 2020-04-24 23:18:42 +0000 UTCDid you know some of the seeds of the Russian Revolution were planted all the way back in 1698 when Peter the Great instituted a Beard Tax in an attempt to more fully westernize Russian citizens? He even formed a police force tasked with forcibly shaving men in the street who could not pay the fine for having a beard. These fines were, unsurprisingly, mostly enforced against the peasants and the small working class at the time, with the nobility and land owning upper class mostly exempt
