Did some research, well the Russian Revolution and the Great War were over when the Spanish Flu hit, but it coincided with Marxist revolutionary fervor and takeovers in Germany and with the Russian Civil War. Communists like to stress this association:  In 1918, the direct effects of the pandemic can't be separated from the revolutionary wave that swept large parts of the world in the wake of World War One and the Russian revolution.  Interesting there was a general strike in Seattle. @sheepdoggie