!historychads !anticommunists what's our assessment? Incompetent moron? Bloody tyrant? A product of his time? I already know our resident commies will say he got what he deserved. His wife was extremely r-slurred, ignored all of based granny Victoria's advices and was probably boned by a creepy peasant.
!neolibs was Sergei Witte /our/ guy? Was Stolypin taken from us too soon?
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You know, I actually heard from somewhere else that the Mongols doing their thang and eventually ruling over the Russians with swift and ferocious brutality
is what eventually established a frequent tendency for whatever Russian government to be authoritarian and often, essentially a one-man-regime.
From Tsars to General Secretaries to even regular Presidents and Prime Ministers…it seems as if the Russkies - combined with the heavy whiplash of revolutions and regime changes - simply just can't stop being so wingcucked
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The cause of Alexander's repression was witnessing anarchists murder his liberal minded grandfather
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I think part of it is the routine famines which stopped happening later than other countries similar to how droughts hurt the Sahel's ability to have functioning institutions.
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They have the same kind of thing there where every ~10 years there's a drought and the harvest is terrible. At least in part of Russia.
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