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The immediate aftermath of WW1 was a lot of revolutions and unrest. We typically attribute the cause of these to the war, but right at the same time, Spanish flu was killing 50 million people, more than the entire war. Did that play any significant role in all that unrest?

by /u/should-stop-posting in /r/AskHistorians

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