1 00:00:03,000 --> 00:00:08,680 Speaker 1: Oh oh man, welcome back to Behind the Bastards, the 2 00:00:08,720 --> 00:00:13,200 Speaker 1: podcast that's just as refreshing as as pounding a great 3 00:00:13,280 --> 00:00:22,040 Speaker 1: zba um m. That's good Zbia. Jeff May guest, thanks friend, podcaster, 4 00:00:23,200 --> 00:00:26,600 Speaker 1: co host of Tom and Jeff Batch batman Jeff has 5 00:00:26,640 --> 00:00:31,760 Speaker 1: cool friends um and and and stand up comedian Jeff. 6 00:00:32,360 --> 00:00:34,720 Speaker 1: This is part three of our series on on Zar 7 00:00:34,840 --> 00:00:37,440 Speaker 1: Nicholas the second. How are you holding up great? I'm 8 00:00:37,479 --> 00:00:41,720 Speaker 1: feeling good. Uh well, I'm ready to talk. Man. This guy, this, 9 00:00:41,720 --> 00:00:46,000 Speaker 1: this fucking guys, fucking rupe, this fucking do love that. 10 00:00:46,120 --> 00:00:50,720 Speaker 1: Like that's the like before this, I think they're like 11 00:00:50,760 --> 00:00:52,800 Speaker 1: talking about Philippe, who has his you know, as we 12 00:00:52,800 --> 00:00:56,760 Speaker 1: talked about last time, his his first mystic con man 13 00:00:56,800 --> 00:00:59,320 Speaker 1: who got into the family and then rescuting. There's like 14 00:00:59,360 --> 00:01:03,760 Speaker 1: this media image of resputant. Is this like supernaturally charming, 15 00:01:04,240 --> 00:01:10,000 Speaker 1: like incredible, uh mysterious sort of like um figure who's 16 00:01:10,080 --> 00:01:13,080 Speaker 1: just like in humanly charismatic and like No, the truth 17 00:01:13,160 --> 00:01:15,480 Speaker 1: is that like literally any con man could have won 18 00:01:15,480 --> 00:01:18,560 Speaker 1: one over on these people. They were really stupid. It's 19 00:01:18,560 --> 00:01:21,319 Speaker 1: so much that people it's almost like it's like there 20 00:01:21,360 --> 00:01:24,000 Speaker 1: there's a punch card for what con Man is going 21 00:01:24,080 --> 00:01:26,560 Speaker 1: to be in charge at the time. It's like the 22 00:01:26,560 --> 00:01:30,920 Speaker 1: morning Ralph Mornan Sam situation. Yeah, yeah, it's it's just 23 00:01:31,000 --> 00:01:34,520 Speaker 1: so funny. Um and yeah, this is this is it's 24 00:01:34,520 --> 00:01:36,680 Speaker 1: important to note that that, like that's kind of what 25 00:01:36,760 --> 00:01:40,080 Speaker 1: you get with monarchy, right, Like that's the situation where 26 00:01:40,080 --> 00:01:44,880 Speaker 1: if your thing is ultimate power is invested in a dude, 27 00:01:44,920 --> 00:01:47,120 Speaker 1: Like a decent number of those dudes are going to 28 00:01:47,160 --> 00:01:48,960 Speaker 1: be the kind of people who would respond to a 29 00:01:49,040 --> 00:01:52,760 Speaker 1: Nigerian prince email scam like yeah, like I don't know 30 00:01:52,800 --> 00:01:55,400 Speaker 1: if you like, I think we all have dumb relatives. 31 00:01:55,760 --> 00:02:00,520 Speaker 1: So the idea that that like inherited divinity in anyway 32 00:02:00,760 --> 00:02:04,000 Speaker 1: or inherited power or intellect or what, that's just the 33 00:02:04,120 --> 00:02:07,520 Speaker 1: dumbest Like if if fucking Nicholas the second had been 34 00:02:07,560 --> 00:02:10,600 Speaker 1: alive and the Tsar of all Russia is today, all 35 00:02:10,639 --> 00:02:13,600 Speaker 1: of Russia would be owned by a Macadonian seventeen year 36 00:02:13,639 --> 00:02:17,239 Speaker 1: old who had like managed to fish his email if something, Yeah, 37 00:02:17,960 --> 00:02:20,919 Speaker 1: it would be it would be like Exxon would own 38 00:02:21,840 --> 00:02:23,760 Speaker 1: Russia if that were the case, Yeah, it would be. 39 00:02:24,400 --> 00:02:26,320 Speaker 1: Someone would have gotten to him. Like I can just 40 00:02:26,400 --> 00:02:29,680 Speaker 1: imagine l Ron Hubbard sliding into the Tsars court and 41 00:02:29,720 --> 00:02:33,560 Speaker 1: just complete control in like seven hours. It would have 42 00:02:33,560 --> 00:02:36,920 Speaker 1: been carved up like like nineteenth century after it would 43 00:02:36,919 --> 00:02:41,120 Speaker 1: have just been like just absolutely colonized and and and colonized, 44 00:02:41,160 --> 00:02:43,639 Speaker 1: with like Nikki still on the throne, smiling all day 45 00:02:43,680 --> 00:02:46,799 Speaker 1: about like, oh, my friends from xon Mobil are here. 46 00:02:47,120 --> 00:02:51,000 Speaker 1: Look at my magic friends from x On Mobile. They 47 00:02:51,040 --> 00:02:54,760 Speaker 1: can they can pull their fingers off, you see. Look 48 00:02:54,800 --> 00:02:56,960 Speaker 1: at that they are doing magic. Look at that people's 49 00:02:57,040 --> 00:03:02,399 Speaker 1: quarter from behind my ear. So as we start this episode, 50 00:03:02,400 --> 00:03:05,919 Speaker 1: the situation with Japan is continuing to spiral out of control. 51 00:03:06,240 --> 00:03:09,079 Speaker 1: In nineteen o two, Japan had signed a defensive pact 52 00:03:09,120 --> 00:03:12,160 Speaker 1: with Great Britain. Um in, Nikki's English cousins had forced 53 00:03:12,240 --> 00:03:15,000 Speaker 1: him to withdraw from man Chariot. Now, obviously he was 54 00:03:15,040 --> 00:03:19,200 Speaker 1: not going to do this, um, but his minister's got 55 00:03:19,320 --> 00:03:21,960 Speaker 1: him to at least degree for it, to agree with 56 00:03:22,000 --> 00:03:24,960 Speaker 1: it for a while. Um. And you know, they keep 57 00:03:25,000 --> 00:03:26,880 Speaker 1: trying to talk him out of this, saying like, hey, 58 00:03:27,120 --> 00:03:29,960 Speaker 1: like taking over Tibet maybe not a great idea, probably 59 00:03:30,000 --> 00:03:32,400 Speaker 1: not going to work all that well. Um. But Nicholas 60 00:03:32,400 --> 00:03:35,040 Speaker 1: doesn't really spend a lot of time around his advisors. 61 00:03:35,080 --> 00:03:39,360 Speaker 1: He prefers the company of Bezobrazov and his cousin the Kaiser, who, 62 00:03:39,400 --> 00:03:42,080 Speaker 1: as we talked about last time, I think Um had 63 00:03:42,320 --> 00:03:46,000 Speaker 1: started calling himself Admiral of the Atlantic and calling Nicky 64 00:03:46,080 --> 00:03:49,840 Speaker 1: Admiral of the Pacific, right man. Yeah, it's like giving 65 00:03:49,880 --> 00:03:53,400 Speaker 1: yourself your own nickname when you go to college. Yeah, yeah, 66 00:03:53,440 --> 00:03:56,160 Speaker 1: it's it's it's so sad, like because the and it's 67 00:03:56,200 --> 00:03:58,960 Speaker 1: sad because the Kaiser gives them both this nickname, and 68 00:03:59,040 --> 00:04:01,920 Speaker 1: Nikki makes fun of the Kaiser, and then Nikki starts 69 00:04:02,000 --> 00:04:05,560 Speaker 1: using the nickname completely and ironically. Um, He's like, well, 70 00:04:05,600 --> 00:04:07,400 Speaker 1: you know, it is a cool nickname. I'm not going 71 00:04:08,400 --> 00:04:12,840 Speaker 1: he's good at nicknames. He may be duvrous, but I 72 00:04:12,920 --> 00:04:15,120 Speaker 1: got to say this nickname it fun. Look at this 73 00:04:15,240 --> 00:04:18,040 Speaker 1: idiot coming up with nicknames. I'm going to steal though. 74 00:04:18,600 --> 00:04:21,919 Speaker 1: Absolutely mine is my nickname now, so Um one of 75 00:04:21,920 --> 00:04:24,279 Speaker 1: his ministers, because this is this is like a source 76 00:04:24,320 --> 00:04:28,080 Speaker 1: of incredible frustration for these these educated and like august 77 00:04:28,160 --> 00:04:30,600 Speaker 1: ministers and nobles and whatnot who are trying to like 78 00:04:31,080 --> 00:04:33,880 Speaker 1: run the empire around him. That he's listening, He's given 79 00:04:33,920 --> 00:04:36,800 Speaker 1: this Yeah, yeah, it's kind of a theme. It's just 80 00:04:36,880 --> 00:04:41,880 Speaker 1: all these like well read intellectuals with experience in geopolitical 81 00:04:41,920 --> 00:04:44,760 Speaker 1: theory are just like, what the funk are you doing? Man? 82 00:04:45,560 --> 00:04:47,800 Speaker 1: And one of his ministers, again named Leave, who was 83 00:04:47,839 --> 00:04:51,159 Speaker 1: again a raging anti semite um but a much smarter 84 00:04:51,240 --> 00:04:54,240 Speaker 1: person than the Czar, explains the Czar's way of thinking 85 00:04:54,279 --> 00:04:56,640 Speaker 1: here Um in a manner that I think is really 86 00:04:56,680 --> 00:04:59,760 Speaker 1: relevant today. That is, trust of ministers is common to 87 00:04:59,760 --> 00:05:03,000 Speaker 1: all sovereigns. Starting with Alexander. The first autocrats listened to 88 00:05:03,080 --> 00:05:05,760 Speaker 1: their ministers outwardly agree with them, but always turned to 89 00:05:05,800 --> 00:05:08,880 Speaker 1: outsiders who appeal to their hearts and inspire suspicion of 90 00:05:08,920 --> 00:05:12,719 Speaker 1: their ministers, accusing them of encroaching on autocratic law. Like 91 00:05:12,800 --> 00:05:14,920 Speaker 1: we've seen that, right, Like we've all been through that 92 00:05:15,040 --> 00:05:21,080 Speaker 1: here right question. Yeah, my cool friends don't actually question me. 93 00:05:21,120 --> 00:05:24,159 Speaker 1: They think I'm cool. Yeah. I brought my wife's boyfriend 94 00:05:24,200 --> 00:05:26,440 Speaker 1: in and he said we should try this, or like, 95 00:05:26,640 --> 00:05:28,760 Speaker 1: you know, there's this guy, this lawyer that I was 96 00:05:28,839 --> 00:05:30,880 Speaker 1: friends with when I was younger, Like, let's have him 97 00:05:31,480 --> 00:05:33,400 Speaker 1: make our policy here. Like we all lived through a 98 00:05:33,480 --> 00:05:35,560 Speaker 1: version of this with Trump, and it's just like to 99 00:05:35,680 --> 00:05:39,120 Speaker 1: the nth degree with Nikki, because there's absolutely no checks 100 00:05:39,120 --> 00:05:42,680 Speaker 1: on his behavior. Um. So they kind of settle into 101 00:05:42,680 --> 00:05:45,040 Speaker 1: this pattern for a while Russia for the next year 102 00:05:45,080 --> 00:05:47,520 Speaker 1: and a half or so, where Bezo Brazof will like 103 00:05:47,720 --> 00:05:50,400 Speaker 1: escalate in some wild way. He'll provoke the Japanese or 104 00:05:50,400 --> 00:05:54,400 Speaker 1: he'll make a move on on on Chinese occupied territory, um, 105 00:05:54,560 --> 00:05:57,680 Speaker 1: and there will be like some big war panic, and 106 00:05:57,839 --> 00:06:00,680 Speaker 1: Nikki will back off at the last moment and like 107 00:06:00,720 --> 00:06:03,280 Speaker 1: pull his troops back because he doesn't really want a war, 108 00:06:03,600 --> 00:06:05,839 Speaker 1: Like he talks this big game about like wanting to 109 00:06:05,839 --> 00:06:09,080 Speaker 1: show Japan what for, but he's also like there's a 110 00:06:09,120 --> 00:06:11,520 Speaker 1: part of him that's reasonable enough to know that, like, well, 111 00:06:11,560 --> 00:06:14,400 Speaker 1: if you are the absolute sovereign and you lose a war, 112 00:06:14,560 --> 00:06:18,320 Speaker 1: that doesn't that that can be bad, you know, asked 113 00:06:18,360 --> 00:06:25,400 Speaker 1: Japan exactly, asked Japan a minute after this. It's it's 114 00:06:25,400 --> 00:06:29,039 Speaker 1: funny too, because we all know this guy, the guy 115 00:06:29,080 --> 00:06:32,080 Speaker 1: that's like talking shit at the bar and then as 116 00:06:32,080 --> 00:06:34,240 Speaker 1: soon as somebody's like, all right, well let's go, and 117 00:06:34,240 --> 00:06:38,200 Speaker 1: then they're like yeah, and and fucking Nikki is that 118 00:06:38,240 --> 00:06:40,400 Speaker 1: guy because he doesn't really want to fight. Bezo Brasov 119 00:06:40,520 --> 00:06:42,320 Speaker 1: is the guy who like does that and also like 120 00:06:42,440 --> 00:06:45,200 Speaker 1: he'll throw down. He's not good at it, like he 121 00:06:45,240 --> 00:06:47,560 Speaker 1: can't throw a punch to save his life. He's way 122 00:06:47,560 --> 00:06:49,920 Speaker 1: too drunk to be starting ship. But he will throw 123 00:06:49,960 --> 00:06:52,520 Speaker 1: that punch if you know, going to be starting somebuddy 124 00:06:52,520 --> 00:06:56,200 Speaker 1: will back him up, um so nikki like for a 125 00:06:56,240 --> 00:06:58,760 Speaker 1: little while, like there, his ministers are able to get 126 00:06:58,839 --> 00:07:01,039 Speaker 1: him to pull back, get him to pull back, um, 127 00:07:01,120 --> 00:07:03,040 Speaker 1: and then he'll poke at them or Bezo Brazof will 128 00:07:03,040 --> 00:07:04,720 Speaker 1: poke at them again. And you know this kind of 129 00:07:05,040 --> 00:07:08,120 Speaker 1: happens a couple of times. Um And after a while 130 00:07:08,160 --> 00:07:10,760 Speaker 1: the Japanese get really tired of this and they give 131 00:07:10,840 --> 00:07:13,960 Speaker 1: they present these are with an incredible offer, like this 132 00:07:14,040 --> 00:07:17,120 Speaker 1: is actually really quite and again I say generous. They're 133 00:07:17,120 --> 00:07:20,280 Speaker 1: offering someone else's land. But like they're like, hey, Czar, 134 00:07:20,840 --> 00:07:22,680 Speaker 1: I don't want to deal with this like constant like 135 00:07:22,880 --> 00:07:25,160 Speaker 1: dick measuring game that year is how about you get 136 00:07:25,160 --> 00:07:28,880 Speaker 1: all of Mancharia that's yours, Russia gets all of Mancharia, 137 00:07:29,080 --> 00:07:32,720 Speaker 1: we get Korea. How about that? Which I'm the czar. 138 00:07:33,160 --> 00:07:35,160 Speaker 1: I don't have to fight a war. Really, I could 139 00:07:35,240 --> 00:07:38,760 Speaker 1: just take this huge, just chunk of land longer than larger, 140 00:07:38,800 --> 00:07:41,200 Speaker 1: I think than any country in Western Europe that I 141 00:07:41,240 --> 00:07:43,640 Speaker 1: get to just add to Russia for free seems like 142 00:07:43,640 --> 00:07:48,800 Speaker 1: a great deal for me. These are right, Nikki says no. Uh, 143 00:07:49,000 --> 00:07:51,520 Speaker 1: Nikki's like, well, yeah, sure, that would wipe out the 144 00:07:51,560 --> 00:07:53,880 Speaker 1: stain of defeating Crimea and make me maybe the greatest 145 00:07:53,920 --> 00:07:56,560 Speaker 1: expansion It's star of the last century. Probably would have 146 00:07:56,600 --> 00:07:59,120 Speaker 1: distracted from all my domestic failures. But that means I 147 00:07:59,120 --> 00:08:03,080 Speaker 1: don't get Korea too when I really want Korea. Because 148 00:08:03,080 --> 00:08:09,320 Speaker 1: I can't get he wants to collect them all. Yeah, yeah, 149 00:08:09,640 --> 00:08:12,200 Speaker 1: he wants like those cops who got fired for trying 150 00:08:12,240 --> 00:08:17,840 Speaker 1: to get that pokemon. You know who among us hasn't 151 00:08:17,960 --> 00:08:21,560 Speaker 1: ignored our civic duty in order to collect the snore life? Yeah, 152 00:08:21,560 --> 00:08:23,360 Speaker 1: I mean it's we. We all have that friend who like, 153 00:08:23,560 --> 00:08:25,640 Speaker 1: wasn't able to make rent one month because he bought 154 00:08:25,640 --> 00:08:27,760 Speaker 1: too many fucking um what are those what are those 155 00:08:27,920 --> 00:08:31,160 Speaker 1: nerd bobblehead type things called because he bought too many 156 00:08:31,200 --> 00:08:33,760 Speaker 1: funco Are you just looking behind me and looking for 157 00:08:33,800 --> 00:08:37,280 Speaker 1: something to make fun of. I mean, it's fine when 158 00:08:37,280 --> 00:08:39,560 Speaker 1: it's a funko pop, but because he's the Czar of 159 00:08:39,600 --> 00:08:43,240 Speaker 1: all Russias, his funco pops are like entire nations of 160 00:08:43,280 --> 00:08:48,720 Speaker 1: millions of people in in a it's it's like entire 161 00:08:49,080 --> 00:08:51,960 Speaker 1: ethnic groups that that he wants to collect and put 162 00:08:51,960 --> 00:08:56,000 Speaker 1: in his little Russia box and probably racially discriminate against 163 00:08:56,520 --> 00:08:59,800 Speaker 1: um because he is the guy that he is. So 164 00:08:59,840 --> 00:09:03,000 Speaker 1: he he says no to Japan's again very generous offer 165 00:09:03,080 --> 00:09:06,680 Speaker 1: with other people's territory um, and then he doesn't leave Mancheria. 166 00:09:06,760 --> 00:09:08,400 Speaker 1: But so he doesn't agree to this, and he also 167 00:09:08,520 --> 00:09:11,560 Speaker 1: stays in Mancheria, which is kind of saying to Japan, 168 00:09:11,880 --> 00:09:15,040 Speaker 1: we're gonna try to invade Korea, Like we're gonna we're 169 00:09:15,040 --> 00:09:17,280 Speaker 1: gonna take Korea from you, right, Like, that's what you're saying. 170 00:09:17,320 --> 00:09:19,559 Speaker 1: If you're like, no, I don't want you to give 171 00:09:19,600 --> 00:09:21,800 Speaker 1: me Mancheria, but I'm not gonna leave, you're saying, well, 172 00:09:21,840 --> 00:09:24,080 Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'm gonna funk with your ships some more. Right. 173 00:09:24,160 --> 00:09:27,160 Speaker 1: That's that's exactly what he's saying. That's as good as 174 00:09:27,200 --> 00:09:30,920 Speaker 1: an act of war, really if you if you're not unreasonable, 175 00:09:31,240 --> 00:09:36,320 Speaker 1: and Japan takes it this way. Um. Simon Montfio writes, quote, 176 00:09:36,679 --> 00:09:39,520 Speaker 1: Bezobrazov had taught the emperor that treaties could be broken, 177 00:09:39,559 --> 00:09:42,559 Speaker 1: and Nicholas was convinced that Russia could defeat those macaques. 178 00:09:43,280 --> 00:09:46,880 Speaker 1: He's calling them monkeys because Japan was a barbarian country, 179 00:09:47,120 --> 00:09:50,040 Speaker 1: and cool Potkin told Nicholas that the Japanese army, who's 180 00:09:50,080 --> 00:09:52,360 Speaker 1: one of his military advisors, that the Japanese army was 181 00:09:52,400 --> 00:09:54,600 Speaker 1: a colossal joke, but he did not want a war. 182 00:09:54,920 --> 00:09:57,600 Speaker 1: The Emperor blithely ordered the viceroy, I don't want war 183 00:09:57,640 --> 00:09:59,880 Speaker 1: between Russia and Japan and will not permit this war. 184 00:10:00,200 --> 00:10:03,040 Speaker 1: Take all measures so that there is no war. Japan 185 00:10:03,080 --> 00:10:05,079 Speaker 1: made for their offers to Russia for a compromise, but 186 00:10:05,160 --> 00:10:07,880 Speaker 1: wondered if the inconsistence z are was capable of negotiating 187 00:10:07,880 --> 00:10:10,640 Speaker 1: a treaty yet alone honoring it. So he gets every 188 00:10:10,720 --> 00:10:13,400 Speaker 1: chance in the world to make this work right. I 189 00:10:13,440 --> 00:10:17,520 Speaker 1: think it's interesting to note that we are actually looking 190 00:10:17,559 --> 00:10:22,480 Speaker 1: at two nations that have just really honestly westernized their 191 00:10:22,480 --> 00:10:26,239 Speaker 1: militaries or and when I say westernized, I mean modernized. 192 00:10:26,679 --> 00:10:29,240 Speaker 1: Let me let me rephrase it, because you know, Japan 193 00:10:29,280 --> 00:10:31,960 Speaker 1: obviously had to make a big leap forward during the 194 00:10:32,040 --> 00:10:35,920 Speaker 1: mid to lady nineteenth century as well. Um, and we 195 00:10:36,000 --> 00:10:40,920 Speaker 1: know we talked about in previous episodes what Russia Russia 196 00:10:40,960 --> 00:10:43,679 Speaker 1: has just gotten their military to be kind of in 197 00:10:44,000 --> 00:10:45,880 Speaker 1: not really in line as we'll talk about when World 198 00:10:45,920 --> 00:10:48,080 Speaker 1: War One hits, but they're closer to in line with 199 00:10:48,160 --> 00:10:51,200 Speaker 1: like Germany and France, and so it's almost like they 200 00:10:51,280 --> 00:10:54,880 Speaker 1: both got new toys. They're like, you know what, yeah, 201 00:10:55,559 --> 00:10:57,800 Speaker 1: and that's that's a big thing. You know. Japan has 202 00:10:57,920 --> 00:11:02,920 Speaker 1: just modernized and gotten their military kind of really rolling 203 00:11:02,960 --> 00:11:06,520 Speaker 1: along at the same point that China is falling apart, 204 00:11:06,559 --> 00:11:08,920 Speaker 1: which provides this opportunity for Japan to take a whole 205 00:11:08,960 --> 00:11:10,559 Speaker 1: bunch of China and get a bunch of ship that 206 00:11:10,880 --> 00:11:15,840 Speaker 1: being from an island they maybe didn't have access to before. Russia. 207 00:11:16,320 --> 00:11:19,960 Speaker 1: It's a little bit like with the Japanese government, this 208 00:11:20,080 --> 00:11:23,480 Speaker 1: is much more of like a kind of grim real politique, 209 00:11:23,480 --> 00:11:25,160 Speaker 1: like we need to take as much as we can. 210 00:11:25,800 --> 00:11:29,120 Speaker 1: Um there's this awareness that like the colonial powers, like 211 00:11:29,200 --> 00:11:31,720 Speaker 1: they will do that to us, what they're doing to Africa, 212 00:11:31,800 --> 00:11:34,120 Speaker 1: what they're doing to other parts of Asia, if we 213 00:11:34,240 --> 00:11:37,360 Speaker 1: don't assert ourselves and get powerful, and the best way 214 00:11:37,360 --> 00:11:38,920 Speaker 1: to do this to take enough land that we can 215 00:11:39,040 --> 00:11:41,760 Speaker 1: can continue to build up our military and not be 216 00:11:41,800 --> 00:11:43,319 Speaker 1: able to be fucked with by them. Right, there's a 217 00:11:43,400 --> 00:11:47,079 Speaker 1: lot of it's a lot harsher of an understanding with Russia. 218 00:11:47,400 --> 00:11:49,760 Speaker 1: Nikki's this mix of like he's got these new toys 219 00:11:49,800 --> 00:11:52,240 Speaker 1: he does want to play with and his he he 220 00:11:52,320 --> 00:11:54,240 Speaker 1: has people talking to about how easy it will be 221 00:11:54,280 --> 00:11:56,199 Speaker 1: to be Japan and an easy victory will deal with 222 00:11:56,240 --> 00:11:59,840 Speaker 1: all these domestic troubles. But he's also he's like re 223 00:12:00,000 --> 00:12:03,120 Speaker 1: sitable enough to know that he probably would actually be 224 00:12:03,160 --> 00:12:04,800 Speaker 1: a bad idea to go to war. And he has 225 00:12:04,840 --> 00:12:07,280 Speaker 1: a lot of ministers like into including like wit and 226 00:12:07,280 --> 00:12:11,000 Speaker 1: the other kind of the intelligent ministers he has saying like, dude, 227 00:12:11,000 --> 00:12:13,440 Speaker 1: you're hanging on by a thread right now, Like people 228 00:12:13,440 --> 00:12:16,320 Speaker 1: are not happy this is that there's there's riots and 229 00:12:16,360 --> 00:12:19,360 Speaker 1: ship all over the country. Um, what we don't want 230 00:12:19,360 --> 00:12:21,120 Speaker 1: now as a war because it's probably not going to 231 00:12:21,200 --> 00:12:23,000 Speaker 1: go great. And so there's this push and pull for 232 00:12:23,040 --> 00:12:25,480 Speaker 1: a while. And for a while Nikki's kind of in 233 00:12:25,520 --> 00:12:29,960 Speaker 1: the middle of those sides. Um, but he eventually kind 234 00:12:29,960 --> 00:12:32,280 Speaker 1: of sides with the folks who start telling him and 235 00:12:32,280 --> 00:12:35,640 Speaker 1: and and this includes pleave his anti Semite minister buddy 236 00:12:35,679 --> 00:12:39,640 Speaker 1: that a small victorious war might distract everybody, right, So 237 00:12:39,679 --> 00:12:42,800 Speaker 1: he eventually lines up on that I just love the 238 00:12:42,800 --> 00:12:47,840 Speaker 1: phrase anti Semite minister. But well that's he's got the 239 00:12:47,880 --> 00:12:50,800 Speaker 1: minister buddies who are racist and the ones who are racist, 240 00:12:51,200 --> 00:12:54,080 Speaker 1: but not in terms of their policy, because every they're 241 00:12:54,120 --> 00:12:56,600 Speaker 1: all racist. Yeah, Like the best guy in this story, 242 00:12:56,679 --> 00:12:59,000 Speaker 1: that's far is his attitude is like, well, if you 243 00:12:59,040 --> 00:13:00,920 Speaker 1: can't drown all the was, I guess they should have 244 00:13:00,920 --> 00:13:07,120 Speaker 1: civil rights. Subversive statement, I guess now. On New Year's Day, 245 00:13:07,200 --> 00:13:10,160 Speaker 1: n four, the Emperor of all the Russia's decides to 246 00:13:10,200 --> 00:13:13,719 Speaker 1: make an ultimatum to Japan. He tells the Japanese ambassador 247 00:13:13,840 --> 00:13:15,800 Speaker 1: Russia was not just a country, but a part of 248 00:13:15,800 --> 00:13:18,360 Speaker 1: the world. In order to avoid a war, it was 249 00:13:18,400 --> 00:13:20,880 Speaker 1: better not to try her patients or it could end badly. 250 00:13:21,400 --> 00:13:25,679 Speaker 1: On the twenty four January, Japan breaks off diplomatic relations. 251 00:13:25,720 --> 00:13:29,080 Speaker 1: So after like this back and forth, he issues basically 252 00:13:29,120 --> 00:13:31,880 Speaker 1: like shut the funk up, let me do whatever it 253 00:13:31,960 --> 00:13:34,480 Speaker 1: is I'm going to do, and if you talk to 254 00:13:34,520 --> 00:13:37,960 Speaker 1: me again, like I might throw hands. That that's kind 255 00:13:37,960 --> 00:13:41,160 Speaker 1: of what he's don't even yeah, don't even fucking sucks me. 256 00:13:41,720 --> 00:13:46,199 Speaker 1: Don't even talk to me, stugging talks to me. If 257 00:13:46,360 --> 00:13:49,880 Speaker 1: swhere to God, if you fucking talk to me once 258 00:13:50,160 --> 00:13:54,079 Speaker 1: it's over and to continue our bar ANALYSI drunken Nicholas 259 00:13:54,200 --> 00:13:56,920 Speaker 1: slurs that out to the Japanese, turns around to grab 260 00:13:56,960 --> 00:13:59,800 Speaker 1: another drink from the bar, and while his back is turned, 261 00:13:59,840 --> 00:14:01,160 Speaker 1: they hit him in the back of the head with 262 00:14:01,200 --> 00:14:04,560 Speaker 1: a bottle of Schlitz, like we've all been there or whatever. 263 00:14:05,120 --> 00:14:07,439 Speaker 1: Um they fuck him up. The next day, while the 264 00:14:07,480 --> 00:14:10,800 Speaker 1: Czar is out watching at the theater watching a play, 265 00:14:11,080 --> 00:14:14,040 Speaker 1: the Japanese fleet attacks Port Arthur, which you know Russia 266 00:14:14,040 --> 00:14:17,440 Speaker 1: had taken a little bit earlier, and they do serious damage, 267 00:14:17,520 --> 00:14:20,720 Speaker 1: like wipe out a significant chunk of his Asian fleet. 268 00:14:20,760 --> 00:14:23,280 Speaker 1: I would add second worst thing to happen in a 269 00:14:23,360 --> 00:14:29,520 Speaker 1: theater to a ruler. Oh man, there was a great 270 00:14:29,600 --> 00:14:31,480 Speaker 1: this Halloween. I think I haven't said this on the show. 271 00:14:31,560 --> 00:14:33,960 Speaker 1: This Halloween, we were out taking some friends kids of 272 00:14:34,040 --> 00:14:35,920 Speaker 1: mine trick or treating and as we were like walking 273 00:14:35,920 --> 00:14:38,080 Speaker 1: back to the car, there was just this dude dressed 274 00:14:38,160 --> 00:14:40,280 Speaker 1: up as a dead Lincoln sitting in a chair in 275 00:14:40,320 --> 00:14:42,120 Speaker 1: front of his house with a bucket of candy like 276 00:14:42,520 --> 00:14:45,760 Speaker 1: up stock straight looked like a statue almost, And one 277 00:14:45,760 --> 00:14:48,880 Speaker 1: of my friends asked him, hey, how was the play, 278 00:14:48,920 --> 00:14:51,840 Speaker 1: and he without missing a beat, responded, I left early. 279 00:14:52,720 --> 00:14:54,760 Speaker 1: I gotta be honest with you, Like he probably had 280 00:14:54,800 --> 00:14:57,120 Speaker 1: like a list of way he was ready to say 281 00:14:58,200 --> 00:15:02,720 Speaker 1: new New Dead Lincoln feature eight realistic words sounds. So 282 00:15:03,000 --> 00:15:05,480 Speaker 1: the Russo Japanese War kicks off from this, right, Japan 283 00:15:05,520 --> 00:15:09,240 Speaker 1: attacks at Port Arthur. The Russians are very angry and 284 00:15:09,360 --> 00:15:11,840 Speaker 1: they start fighting. There's this whole big series of battles, 285 00:15:11,880 --> 00:15:15,640 Speaker 1: you know, it's a war war. Stuff occurs um and 286 00:15:15,680 --> 00:15:18,520 Speaker 1: on the ground there's this you know, land warfare that's 287 00:15:18,560 --> 00:15:22,000 Speaker 1: largely happening in in Manchuria between like these couple hundred 288 00:15:22,000 --> 00:15:25,280 Speaker 1: thousand troops that Russia has there and the Japanese Expeditionary 289 00:15:25,360 --> 00:15:29,840 Speaker 1: Force and the Russians do okay here they lose basically 290 00:15:29,920 --> 00:15:33,920 Speaker 1: every big battle, but Japan often loses more men in 291 00:15:33,960 --> 00:15:36,720 Speaker 1: the battle, so like they're kind of it's like pyric 292 00:15:36,800 --> 00:15:39,360 Speaker 1: victories for the Japanese where they're like, yeah, we keep 293 00:15:39,360 --> 00:15:41,600 Speaker 1: winning these battles, but funk, there's a lot of Russians 294 00:15:41,680 --> 00:15:44,080 Speaker 1: and like, we can't keep this up for a while. 295 00:15:45,160 --> 00:15:48,920 Speaker 1: That is the story of they there's a lot of 296 00:15:49,000 --> 00:15:52,960 Speaker 1: Russian Japan has the same experience everyone else does fighting Russia, 297 00:15:53,000 --> 00:15:55,480 Speaker 1: which is Jesus Christ. There's no end of these people. 298 00:15:56,320 --> 00:16:00,320 Speaker 1: I mean, think about the land differences, maybe like oh, 299 00:16:00,360 --> 00:16:03,720 Speaker 1: so we're like what we're like the like the Moscow 300 00:16:03,840 --> 00:16:08,720 Speaker 1: suburbs are our entire island, you know, there's so many 301 00:16:08,760 --> 00:16:13,000 Speaker 1: of Yeah, yeah, I think we need the entire island 302 00:16:13,000 --> 00:16:17,760 Speaker 1: of just to do anything to um And so this this, 303 00:16:18,120 --> 00:16:21,160 Speaker 1: you know, on land, the Russians kind of duke it 304 00:16:21,200 --> 00:16:23,600 Speaker 1: out with the Japanese until the Japanese are, you know, 305 00:16:23,680 --> 00:16:26,600 Speaker 1: after repeatedly winning, kind of on the verge of collapse 306 00:16:26,640 --> 00:16:29,640 Speaker 1: by some sources. So it's going okay on the land. 307 00:16:29,760 --> 00:16:31,960 Speaker 1: It's not going great obviously, because it never does go 308 00:16:32,040 --> 00:16:37,880 Speaker 1: great for Russia either, but like they win awards sustainable situation, 309 00:16:38,160 --> 00:16:40,840 Speaker 1: it's not in the navy. So Japan starts the war 310 00:16:40,920 --> 00:16:44,080 Speaker 1: by wiping out one of three Russian fleets, the Pacific Fleet, 311 00:16:44,640 --> 00:16:46,840 Speaker 1: And you know, Nikki has a choice here. One of 312 00:16:46,880 --> 00:16:49,119 Speaker 1: them would be like, well, I could kind of potentially 313 00:16:49,160 --> 00:16:51,720 Speaker 1: give up Port Arthur, or at least give up relieving 314 00:16:51,720 --> 00:16:54,200 Speaker 1: it from the sea. I could not try to funk 315 00:16:54,240 --> 00:16:56,720 Speaker 1: with the in the ocean anymore because I don't need to. 316 00:16:56,880 --> 00:16:59,880 Speaker 1: I'm directly connected by land to the battle space. You know, 317 00:17:00,240 --> 00:17:02,440 Speaker 1: I can just throw a ship lord more dudes in 318 00:17:02,480 --> 00:17:05,800 Speaker 1: Demandcharia and probably eke out if not like a win, 319 00:17:06,119 --> 00:17:08,879 Speaker 1: you know, a negotiated settlement that gives me what I 320 00:17:08,880 --> 00:17:11,040 Speaker 1: could have gotten without fighting a war anyway. But like 321 00:17:11,680 --> 00:17:14,000 Speaker 1: looks good on paper, you know, he has kind of 322 00:17:14,040 --> 00:17:18,200 Speaker 1: that option. But he's you know, Russia's pride as its navy. 323 00:17:18,400 --> 00:17:21,280 Speaker 1: And it's not Russia's pride, it's it's the Czar's pride. 324 00:17:21,560 --> 00:17:23,439 Speaker 1: And it's this way with all of these guys in 325 00:17:23,480 --> 00:17:26,760 Speaker 1: this same period. Kaiser Wilhelm is like helping to make 326 00:17:26,800 --> 00:17:30,040 Speaker 1: World War One b a thing by repeatedly like tweaking 327 00:17:30,080 --> 00:17:32,600 Speaker 1: the British by building up the German fleet, because that's 328 00:17:32,600 --> 00:17:34,320 Speaker 1: the thing the British don't want to see, is the 329 00:17:34,359 --> 00:17:36,600 Speaker 1: Germany have a fleet that can rival the British fleet, 330 00:17:36,640 --> 00:17:40,200 Speaker 1: because Germany already has an army that Britain can't handle. Um, 331 00:17:40,240 --> 00:17:43,000 Speaker 1: But the Britain doesn't like when anybody has They don't 332 00:17:43,040 --> 00:17:45,040 Speaker 1: like when anybody has a navy, No, they sure don't. 333 00:17:45,560 --> 00:17:53,320 Speaker 1: I don't believe are the only ones with boats a reason. 334 00:17:54,600 --> 00:17:57,719 Speaker 1: So the Kaiser and it's like it's this whole thing 335 00:17:57,760 --> 00:18:01,439 Speaker 1: of like it's like it's it's like warhammer for the Kaiser. 336 00:18:01,520 --> 00:18:03,480 Speaker 1: Like he gets to he gets to get these little boats, 337 00:18:03,560 --> 00:18:06,680 Speaker 1: these boats that he gets to have a say in designing, 338 00:18:06,720 --> 00:18:08,719 Speaker 1: and like look at all the big guns and he 339 00:18:08,760 --> 00:18:12,240 Speaker 1: gets to move them around on a map and sail 340 00:18:12,280 --> 00:18:14,199 Speaker 1: around in his yacht and look at the boats that 341 00:18:14,240 --> 00:18:17,879 Speaker 1: he owns and umunds it does sound dope, right, it 342 00:18:17,880 --> 00:18:20,240 Speaker 1: sounds pretty sick. And it's like that with the Kaiser too. 343 00:18:20,400 --> 00:18:24,280 Speaker 1: And and Russia, you know, has a has a traditionally 344 00:18:24,320 --> 00:18:28,159 Speaker 1: pretty powerful navy. Their best fleet is their Baltic fleet though, right, 345 00:18:28,200 --> 00:18:30,680 Speaker 1: because that's like that's home shores, right, that's what's gonna 346 00:18:30,680 --> 00:18:34,440 Speaker 1: be fucking with Turkey. Russia's big enemy for forever is Turkey. 347 00:18:34,560 --> 00:18:37,720 Speaker 1: Um So they've got they lose their Pacific fleet to 348 00:18:37,720 --> 00:18:40,560 Speaker 1: the Japanese with like out really getting to fire much 349 00:18:40,600 --> 00:18:43,600 Speaker 1: of a shot. Um So, Nikki gets obsessed with the 350 00:18:43,640 --> 00:18:45,960 Speaker 1: idea of getting revenge and with the idea of proving 351 00:18:46,040 --> 00:18:48,480 Speaker 1: himself to be the Admiral of the Pacific. You can't 352 00:18:48,480 --> 00:18:50,320 Speaker 1: be the Admiral of the Pacific if your fleet gets 353 00:18:50,320 --> 00:18:52,200 Speaker 1: sunk and you don't do anything about it. So he 354 00:18:52,240 --> 00:18:55,119 Speaker 1: takes this massive Baltic Fleet, the pride of the Russian 355 00:18:55,200 --> 00:18:58,000 Speaker 1: Navy and the lynchpin of their territorial power, and he 356 00:18:58,040 --> 00:19:01,359 Speaker 1: sends the whole thing to fight the Jackas fleet. Um, 357 00:19:01,400 --> 00:19:03,399 Speaker 1: which takes like a year. Like it's not easy to 358 00:19:03,440 --> 00:19:05,800 Speaker 1: get from the Baltic to the coast of China in 359 00:19:05,800 --> 00:19:08,879 Speaker 1: this period. Yeah. Yeah, they're not flying on no, and 360 00:19:08,880 --> 00:19:11,360 Speaker 1: they can't really they're not good at at boating at 361 00:19:11,359 --> 00:19:14,960 Speaker 1: this point, you know, they're they're steaming slowly ahead there. Um, 362 00:19:15,040 --> 00:19:18,359 Speaker 1: well they had a rough go. Yeah, it's exhausting. They 363 00:19:18,400 --> 00:19:21,080 Speaker 1: accidentally murder some fishermen on the way that belonged to 364 00:19:21,119 --> 00:19:24,640 Speaker 1: some European country or another. Um. Yeah, they get panicked 365 00:19:24,640 --> 00:19:28,120 Speaker 1: and they think that it's a Japanese uh torpedo boat 366 00:19:28,200 --> 00:19:32,000 Speaker 1: or whatever. Um. I mean that's yeah, really funny. Really, 367 00:19:32,280 --> 00:19:34,480 Speaker 1: you know, we all agree that it's while those deaths 368 00:19:34,520 --> 00:19:37,800 Speaker 1: are tragic, the historical context of the humor in that 369 00:19:37,880 --> 00:19:40,800 Speaker 1: is it is pretty funny to be like a dude 370 00:19:40,800 --> 00:19:43,040 Speaker 1: on a fishing boat and get get marked by the 371 00:19:43,240 --> 00:19:46,680 Speaker 1: entire Russian Baltic Fleet. Um. Yeah, you're just like I'm 372 00:19:46,680 --> 00:19:50,280 Speaker 1: out to catch up, you know. And and it's worth 373 00:19:50,320 --> 00:19:52,640 Speaker 1: noting the Russian Baltic fleet will perform a lot better 374 00:19:52,680 --> 00:19:55,240 Speaker 1: against these unarmed fishermen than they do against the Japanese 375 00:19:55,320 --> 00:20:00,080 Speaker 1: Navy standard standard move for them. So while they're or 376 00:20:00,080 --> 00:20:03,440 Speaker 1: to ring their way slowly to Asia. Um, and Russia 377 00:20:03,560 --> 00:20:06,400 Speaker 1: is kind of having this very mixed, ugly ground war 378 00:20:06,800 --> 00:20:10,000 Speaker 1: in Manchuria. Um, and you know the fact that there's 379 00:20:10,000 --> 00:20:12,159 Speaker 1: a war, they start being more protests, they start being 380 00:20:12,160 --> 00:20:14,920 Speaker 1: more riots, they start being more strikes among the workers. Well, 381 00:20:14,920 --> 00:20:19,400 Speaker 1: all this is going on, the Czar's son, Alexei is born. Um, 382 00:20:19,440 --> 00:20:21,960 Speaker 1: this is a cause for a lot of finally some 383 00:20:22,000 --> 00:20:25,879 Speaker 1: good finally, some good news. I've got a handle on it. 384 00:20:26,080 --> 00:20:29,639 Speaker 1: Now I have a boy. This couldn't go anywhere. But 385 00:20:29,760 --> 00:20:32,280 Speaker 1: up as the empire is crumbling in tens of thousands 386 00:20:32,280 --> 00:20:34,560 Speaker 1: of men are dying. He's like, good news, everybody, We're 387 00:20:34,560 --> 00:20:37,159 Speaker 1: gonna be able to keep this thing going for another generation. 388 00:20:37,880 --> 00:20:41,200 Speaker 1: Good news everywhere. One more Romanov for you all to 389 00:20:41,280 --> 00:20:45,240 Speaker 1: deal with. So there's this big celebration, right, huge state 390 00:20:45,280 --> 00:20:48,280 Speaker 1: celebration because now there's an heir to the throne. Um. 391 00:20:48,480 --> 00:20:51,800 Speaker 1: But then shortly thereafter this are and his wife realized 392 00:20:51,800 --> 00:20:54,520 Speaker 1: their boy has hemophilia. He's like, you know, the belly 393 00:20:54,560 --> 00:20:57,080 Speaker 1: button thing when the thing falls out of it after 394 00:20:57,119 --> 00:21:00,240 Speaker 1: you pull the baby out. Um. That the umbilical cord. Yeah, 395 00:21:00,240 --> 00:21:03,160 Speaker 1: the babilical cord. His when they cut it, it doesn't 396 00:21:03,200 --> 00:21:06,200 Speaker 1: stop bleeding, right, because he's hemophiliac. You know That's that's 397 00:21:06,240 --> 00:21:10,320 Speaker 1: the whole thing. Um, you bleed more than his ideal um. 398 00:21:10,440 --> 00:21:14,960 Speaker 1: And so there's this suddenly realization that like the Tsar's 399 00:21:15,080 --> 00:21:17,760 Speaker 1: Air basically has a death sentence because like in this 400 00:21:17,920 --> 00:21:19,640 Speaker 1: period of time, I think there's a bunch of things 401 00:21:19,680 --> 00:21:24,760 Speaker 1: you can do. They really don't have medicine back then. Yeah, yeah, 402 00:21:25,440 --> 00:21:29,920 Speaker 1: you have, you have opium, and you have spiritualists. Um, 403 00:21:29,960 --> 00:21:32,800 Speaker 1: I mean you have you have conmon and you have 404 00:21:32,880 --> 00:21:36,600 Speaker 1: doctors who are like three percent better than conman um. 405 00:21:36,640 --> 00:21:38,520 Speaker 1: But there's nothing really to do about this, and pretty 406 00:21:38,600 --> 00:21:41,400 Speaker 1: much everyone but the Czar and Czarina except like, oh ship, 407 00:21:41,480 --> 00:21:43,119 Speaker 1: well he's not going to make it to twenty. Like 408 00:21:43,160 --> 00:21:47,119 Speaker 1: this kid's not gonna last long. Um. Yeah, this kid's fucked. 409 00:21:47,160 --> 00:21:51,320 Speaker 1: They cannot take that because at this point, she's kind 410 00:21:51,320 --> 00:21:53,760 Speaker 1: of worn out. She's had five kids. They're not easy 411 00:21:53,800 --> 00:21:58,280 Speaker 1: pregnancies for her. She's not as young anymore. Um, and 412 00:21:58,320 --> 00:22:01,320 Speaker 1: she's like I can't have another child wild and because 413 00:22:01,320 --> 00:22:02,919 Speaker 1: he does love his wife, the czar is not going 414 00:22:02,960 --> 00:22:04,159 Speaker 1: to force her. You know, I think a lot of 415 00:22:04,200 --> 00:22:06,600 Speaker 1: monarchs would have been like the funk you say, like 416 00:22:06,680 --> 00:22:08,520 Speaker 1: you're we're going to roll these dice again. I don't 417 00:22:08,560 --> 00:22:12,199 Speaker 1: care what happens. I'm sorry, what was that? I like 418 00:22:12,240 --> 00:22:13,760 Speaker 1: how you're like, by the way, it's like it wasn't 419 00:22:13,760 --> 00:22:15,520 Speaker 1: an easy pregnancy. I'm like, yeah, I think that's just 420 00:22:15,560 --> 00:22:22,120 Speaker 1: because it was in nineteen what's four, um, nineteen o five? Yeah, 421 00:22:22,760 --> 00:22:26,840 Speaker 1: and this, you know, so this is like horribly devastating 422 00:22:26,880 --> 00:22:29,320 Speaker 1: for the Romanov family because it kind of means like 423 00:22:29,720 --> 00:22:31,760 Speaker 1: we're going to have to hand over ruling to like 424 00:22:31,800 --> 00:22:33,679 Speaker 1: one of our cousins or something like. This isn't going 425 00:22:33,720 --> 00:22:37,000 Speaker 1: to keep going, and that means that's to the czar, 426 00:22:37,200 --> 00:22:41,000 Speaker 1: even though there's like protests and uprisings and a an 427 00:22:41,000 --> 00:22:45,760 Speaker 1: increasingly disastrous war. That's what makes Nikki feel like a failure. Yeah, 428 00:22:45,800 --> 00:22:50,199 Speaker 1: because it's a it's a boy, but it's not you know, 429 00:22:50,720 --> 00:22:52,720 Speaker 1: it's a boy who's not going to live long enough 430 00:22:52,760 --> 00:22:55,359 Speaker 1: to continue making bad decisions that affect the lives of 431 00:22:55,400 --> 00:23:01,840 Speaker 1: millions anyway. Um, Nicholas is while he's trying to deal 432 00:23:01,880 --> 00:23:03,560 Speaker 1: with this and dealing with the fact that his wife 433 00:23:03,600 --> 00:23:06,560 Speaker 1: is increasingly having breakdowns over the fact that her son 434 00:23:06,720 --> 00:23:09,040 Speaker 1: is kind of constantly on the edge of death, which 435 00:23:09,280 --> 00:23:12,520 Speaker 1: understandable reason to have a breakdown. Um, Russia is kind 436 00:23:12,520 --> 00:23:14,680 Speaker 1: of breaking down because the war is going poorly. People 437 00:23:14,680 --> 00:23:18,439 Speaker 1: are protesting, yeada, YadA, YadA. Nicholas reshuffles his generals, and 438 00:23:18,480 --> 00:23:20,560 Speaker 1: his minister's basically does this thing of like, well, it 439 00:23:20,600 --> 00:23:22,399 Speaker 1: has to be someone else's fault that none of this 440 00:23:22,520 --> 00:23:24,320 Speaker 1: is going well, So I'm just going to kind of 441 00:23:24,400 --> 00:23:29,440 Speaker 1: randomly fire and replace people until things start to work better. Um, 442 00:23:29,480 --> 00:23:33,280 Speaker 1: the problem can't be with me. Uh yeah, how could 443 00:23:33,320 --> 00:23:36,520 Speaker 1: it be? Yeah, and you're so adept. Nick. So one 444 00:23:36,560 --> 00:23:39,040 Speaker 1: of the guys he brings on is this new minister Mursky, 445 00:23:39,040 --> 00:23:41,639 Speaker 1: who points out like, hey, there's this campaign among liberals 446 00:23:41,920 --> 00:23:45,720 Speaker 1: to create like a Congress, basically a constitutional representation for 447 00:23:45,760 --> 00:23:48,120 Speaker 1: the people, you know, which folks have been lobbying for 448 00:23:48,119 --> 00:23:50,200 Speaker 1: for a while. His grandpa was about to put one through, 449 00:23:50,520 --> 00:23:54,280 Speaker 1: and Mursky's like, hey, this is really popular, and because 450 00:23:54,280 --> 00:23:56,560 Speaker 1: it's really popular, if you do it, a lot of 451 00:23:56,600 --> 00:23:59,360 Speaker 1: the people who are protesting and striking right now might 452 00:23:59,480 --> 00:24:02,359 Speaker 1: stop and like you can focus on the other million 453 00:24:02,400 --> 00:24:05,520 Speaker 1: problems you've created. Um and maybe if you don't do this, 454 00:24:05,600 --> 00:24:08,639 Speaker 1: there's gonna be a revolution. And the Emperor Nicholas the 455 00:24:08,680 --> 00:24:11,760 Speaker 1: second does not take this very well. His responses quote, 456 00:24:12,320 --> 00:24:15,240 Speaker 1: you know, I don't hold autocracy for my own pleasure. 457 00:24:15,359 --> 00:24:18,200 Speaker 1: I act in this sense only because it's necessary for Russia. 458 00:24:18,440 --> 00:24:21,000 Speaker 1: I'll never agree to a representative form of government because 459 00:24:21,000 --> 00:24:23,560 Speaker 1: I consider it harmful to the people whom God has 460 00:24:23,680 --> 00:24:30,000 Speaker 1: entrusted to me. So, hearing this, Minsky's responses, everything has failed. 461 00:24:30,200 --> 00:24:34,480 Speaker 1: Let us build jails, of course. Yeah, we're gonna have 462 00:24:34,560 --> 00:24:36,160 Speaker 1: to throw a lot of people in prison, or they're 463 00:24:36,160 --> 00:24:39,639 Speaker 1: gonna murder us. So Minsky at least seems to have 464 00:24:39,680 --> 00:24:42,520 Speaker 1: the lay of the land reasonably well. On Sunday, January 465 00:24:42,600 --> 00:24:45,520 Speaker 1: nine is the Russian army launch is a huge offensive 466 00:24:45,520 --> 00:24:48,920 Speaker 1: in Mancharia. A protest march of thousands of workers swarms 467 00:24:48,960 --> 00:24:52,280 Speaker 1: towards the palace where Nicholas and his family live. Troops 468 00:24:52,320 --> 00:24:55,760 Speaker 1: at the palace open fire and charge the protesters on horseback, 469 00:24:56,000 --> 00:24:58,600 Speaker 1: and they kill more than a thousand people. This is 470 00:24:58,640 --> 00:25:01,000 Speaker 1: not like a kin states or a deal. We're like 471 00:25:01,359 --> 00:25:04,199 Speaker 1: a couple of guys panic and there's you know, a 472 00:25:04,200 --> 00:25:07,399 Speaker 1: handful of people die and like everybody like stars in shock. 473 00:25:07,760 --> 00:25:11,480 Speaker 1: This is like ranks of men firing in mass into 474 00:25:11,480 --> 00:25:14,480 Speaker 1: a crowd and then running them down on horseback with sabers. 475 00:25:14,800 --> 00:25:17,560 Speaker 1: Classic not to whitewash kin state, but this is like 476 00:25:17,600 --> 00:25:21,720 Speaker 1: three hundred or so of them. And at the same time, Um, 477 00:25:21,760 --> 00:25:23,959 Speaker 1: I mean, I'm from Boston where we had a bombing 478 00:25:23,960 --> 00:25:26,520 Speaker 1: where like three people died, and we're like, this is 479 00:25:26,560 --> 00:25:29,480 Speaker 1: the worst thing that has ever happened. So I understood 480 00:25:29,560 --> 00:25:32,560 Speaker 1: in Russia happens on a different scale. And on this 481 00:25:32,640 --> 00:25:35,720 Speaker 1: day when his troops kill a thousand civilians in order 482 00:25:35,760 --> 00:25:39,840 Speaker 1: to defend his regime from protest, Nicholas writes this in 483 00:25:39,880 --> 00:25:43,680 Speaker 1: his diary, A terrible day, Lord, how painful and sad. 484 00:25:44,000 --> 00:25:47,239 Speaker 1: Mama arrived from town, lunched with everyone, went for a 485 00:25:47,240 --> 00:25:52,320 Speaker 1: walk with Misha. Mama stayed the night. Big, big, big 486 00:25:52,320 --> 00:25:56,920 Speaker 1: deal for you, hey, for you. Thousand people died, Mama came. 487 00:25:57,280 --> 00:26:01,720 Speaker 1: What a day? I think mostly a lot on your maybe, yeah, 488 00:26:02,080 --> 00:26:05,919 Speaker 1: that's the main thing. Um, It's very funny, how like 489 00:26:06,119 --> 00:26:10,080 Speaker 1: completely sociopathic. These people are too, like the suff suffering 490 00:26:10,080 --> 00:26:13,119 Speaker 1: and death of their subjects on on a staggering scale. 491 00:26:13,640 --> 00:26:17,120 Speaker 1: But you know who did care their subjects and doesn't 492 00:26:17,240 --> 00:26:21,040 Speaker 1: ignore their horrible demises. I'm gonna guess it's your sponsor's right. 493 00:26:21,200 --> 00:26:24,800 Speaker 1: That's right when you die. Our sponsors, every one of 494 00:26:24,840 --> 00:26:28,480 Speaker 1: them genuinely sad, and they'll write about it in their diaries, 495 00:26:28,680 --> 00:26:31,600 Speaker 1: and they've predicted those deaths. They have they know exactly 496 00:26:31,600 --> 00:26:33,879 Speaker 1: when you're going to die. So maybe you know on 497 00:26:33,920 --> 00:26:37,640 Speaker 1: this ad they'll tell you the exact moment that you'll expire. 498 00:26:43,560 --> 00:26:50,600 Speaker 1: Ah really present you really? Um? So, Jeff, We're we're 499 00:26:50,640 --> 00:26:53,080 Speaker 1: we're we're in a we're in a dicey time for 500 00:26:53,080 --> 00:26:56,560 Speaker 1: for the Romanov dynasty as this is happening, um or 501 00:26:56,600 --> 00:26:58,840 Speaker 1: if not that long after this is happening, and like 502 00:26:59,320 --> 00:27:02,560 Speaker 1: well cup of months. So May of that year, May fourteen, 503 00:27:02,720 --> 00:27:07,080 Speaker 1: the Baltic Fleet reaches uh, the war zone right, um 504 00:27:07,160 --> 00:27:10,160 Speaker 1: reaches Southeast Asia broadly, right, you know, it's a big area. 505 00:27:10,200 --> 00:27:13,280 Speaker 1: They're kind of trying to get to Port Arthur, um 506 00:27:13,359 --> 00:27:15,520 Speaker 1: and they're steaming around all these you know, hugging the 507 00:27:15,520 --> 00:27:19,040 Speaker 1: coast and while they're sort of getting into the battle space, 508 00:27:19,119 --> 00:27:23,640 Speaker 1: the Japanese admiral, a guy named Togo Um spots them 509 00:27:23,640 --> 00:27:27,040 Speaker 1: ahead of time and is smarter than anybody who has 510 00:27:27,040 --> 00:27:29,440 Speaker 1: ever worked for the Czar. Um. Togo is very good 511 00:27:29,440 --> 00:27:32,080 Speaker 1: at what he does. He actually believes he's the reincarnation 512 00:27:32,240 --> 00:27:36,600 Speaker 1: of Horatio Nelson Um, the British admiral who wanted whatever 513 00:27:36,640 --> 00:27:39,399 Speaker 1: that fucking famous sea battle. Um. He's a bit of 514 00:27:39,400 --> 00:27:41,840 Speaker 1: a loon, but he's really good at running a navy. 515 00:27:41,880 --> 00:27:45,439 Speaker 1: And he spots the Russian Navy and he sets his 516 00:27:45,480 --> 00:27:49,360 Speaker 1: troops up in an ambush and one night, the supposedly 517 00:27:49,400 --> 00:27:52,600 Speaker 1: the reason this all happens is that like some dude 518 00:27:52,720 --> 00:27:56,119 Speaker 1: on a medical ship in the Russian fleet forgets to 519 00:27:56,119 --> 00:27:59,399 Speaker 1: close a window and it allows the Japanese fleet to 520 00:27:59,440 --> 00:28:02,359 Speaker 1: spot them in the flow at night, Um, and the 521 00:28:02,440 --> 00:28:05,920 Speaker 1: Japanese fleet ambushes the pride of the Russian Navy and 522 00:28:06,080 --> 00:28:09,159 Speaker 1: wipes them out. Thirty ships sunk to the bottom of 523 00:28:09,200 --> 00:28:11,199 Speaker 1: the sea, and like a day and a half or so, 524 00:28:11,359 --> 00:28:14,000 Speaker 1: including the flagship of the Russian Navy, and they don't 525 00:28:14,000 --> 00:28:17,359 Speaker 1: really lose anybody. It's like more than a thousand Russian 526 00:28:17,400 --> 00:28:20,000 Speaker 1: sailors dead and like a hundred Japanese sailors. Dad or 527 00:28:20,040 --> 00:28:22,159 Speaker 1: something like that it's like it is. It is a 528 00:28:22,520 --> 00:28:29,200 Speaker 1: it is a terrible disaster. It goes into yeah, um 529 00:28:29,240 --> 00:28:31,600 Speaker 1: it is. It goes as badly as it possibly could 530 00:28:31,640 --> 00:28:35,120 Speaker 1: have done. Um, somebody called the match. Yeah yeah they 531 00:28:35,119 --> 00:28:37,720 Speaker 1: are this is this is really like, um, I don't 532 00:28:37,720 --> 00:28:40,640 Speaker 1: know what's the who's a boxer who killed somebody? Emil Griffith. 533 00:28:40,680 --> 00:28:44,480 Speaker 1: This is an Emil Griffith situation. That's Togo. Um, he's 534 00:28:44,560 --> 00:28:49,200 Speaker 1: he's just he's just permanently knocked the Baltic fleet unconscious. 535 00:28:49,520 --> 00:28:52,440 Speaker 1: Um and they are never getting out. Yeah. Yeah, I 536 00:28:53,000 --> 00:28:55,480 Speaker 1: have that equation of like that that like stone cold 537 00:28:55,520 --> 00:28:58,760 Speaker 1: Steve Austin coming in, ravaging them and just leaving while 538 00:28:58,760 --> 00:29:00,960 Speaker 1: he's laying on the ground. That's kind of what the 539 00:29:01,040 --> 00:29:05,840 Speaker 1: Japanese fleet does. So this number one leads very quickly 540 00:29:05,880 --> 00:29:08,920 Speaker 1: to the Russians capitulating. You know, they lose the Russo 541 00:29:09,000 --> 00:29:12,280 Speaker 1: Japanese war. Um, and this is kind of the thing. 542 00:29:12,320 --> 00:29:15,560 Speaker 1: They have now lost two thirds of their entire navy effectively, 543 00:29:18,000 --> 00:29:22,440 Speaker 1: Daddie in my toye, Daddy, I've lost my bets and 544 00:29:22,480 --> 00:29:24,680 Speaker 1: they can't like it's one of those things. Not only 545 00:29:24,760 --> 00:29:26,640 Speaker 1: is this just the disaster like it would be for 546 00:29:26,680 --> 00:29:29,360 Speaker 1: any country. But this is also like the first time 547 00:29:29,480 --> 00:29:33,640 Speaker 1: that a major European power has lost a war, a 548 00:29:33,760 --> 00:29:37,080 Speaker 1: modern war to people who are not white, um, and 549 00:29:37,640 --> 00:29:40,320 Speaker 1: that is like that people start flipping out all over 550 00:29:40,360 --> 00:29:45,960 Speaker 1: the damn world about this ship. Um. And this really 551 00:29:46,000 --> 00:29:48,480 Speaker 1: pisses off everyone in Russia's piss The right wing is 552 00:29:48,480 --> 00:29:51,240 Speaker 1: pissed because it's like us, we're the ones who lose 553 00:29:51,240 --> 00:29:54,160 Speaker 1: a war to the Japanese UM, and the people who 554 00:29:54,160 --> 00:29:57,120 Speaker 1: aren't right when are are pissed because like, how many 555 00:29:57,120 --> 00:29:59,000 Speaker 1: of our guys did you get killed for no reason? 556 00:30:00,600 --> 00:30:02,680 Speaker 1: I Like, the two different reasons are like we lost 557 00:30:02,680 --> 00:30:05,240 Speaker 1: to them, and the other on the other side is like, wait, 558 00:30:05,280 --> 00:30:11,160 Speaker 1: we didn't. My brother's dead. So more protests. Well, Russia, 559 00:30:11,400 --> 00:30:15,680 Speaker 1: the battleship Timpkin mutinies in Odessa, which is goes on 560 00:30:15,720 --> 00:30:18,280 Speaker 1: to be a pretty famous moment um. And Nicholas the 561 00:30:18,320 --> 00:30:20,920 Speaker 1: second well, all this is going on, well the Timpkins mutinying, 562 00:30:20,960 --> 00:30:24,240 Speaker 1: while large chunks of Russia are no longer under the 563 00:30:24,240 --> 00:30:26,680 Speaker 1: control of the Russian state, Like that's the extent to 564 00:30:26,720 --> 00:30:30,560 Speaker 1: which the government loses control. Nikki accepts an invitation from 565 00:30:30,560 --> 00:30:32,280 Speaker 1: his cousin the Kaiser, to go hang out on their 566 00:30:32,360 --> 00:30:36,280 Speaker 1: yachts together class. So like the Baltic and CAUCUSUS have 567 00:30:36,280 --> 00:30:39,840 Speaker 1: have overthrown the government and like murdered local officials and 568 00:30:39,880 --> 00:30:44,040 Speaker 1: are independent principal or independent republics right now. And Nikki's like, 569 00:30:44,400 --> 00:30:46,400 Speaker 1: I need to get away from it all. I'm going 570 00:30:46,440 --> 00:30:48,720 Speaker 1: to sail on a boat with my cousin. He's like, Hey, 571 00:30:48,720 --> 00:30:51,920 Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'm gonna jet you guys. You got this? Yeah, 572 00:30:52,120 --> 00:30:55,760 Speaker 1: this seems fine, right, Yeah, you got this. I mean 573 00:30:55,800 --> 00:30:59,520 Speaker 1: to be honest, if I was one of his his ministers, like, yeah, 574 00:30:59,560 --> 00:31:02,320 Speaker 1: get the get him the funk out of here. No. 575 00:31:02,520 --> 00:31:05,000 Speaker 1: I think it's that this is the right move forever 576 00:31:05,160 --> 00:31:07,360 Speaker 1: one is to have him be like I'm gonna I'm 577 00:31:07,360 --> 00:31:10,000 Speaker 1: gonna get the I'm gonna get you. Why don't you 578 00:31:10,080 --> 00:31:12,800 Speaker 1: take an extra couple of months, you know, just really 579 00:31:12,840 --> 00:31:14,920 Speaker 1: clear your head. Yeah, why did you go to hang 580 00:31:14,920 --> 00:31:18,920 Speaker 1: out with that dipshit cousin? So? Um Yeah, I'm gonna 581 00:31:18,960 --> 00:31:22,120 Speaker 1: quote now from the Oxford University Press. In nineteen o five, 582 00:31:22,200 --> 00:31:24,680 Speaker 1: there were three thousand, two hundred and twenty eight agrarian 583 00:31:24,720 --> 00:31:27,640 Speaker 1: disorders that caused twenty eight million, eight hundred and seventy 584 00:31:27,640 --> 00:31:31,520 Speaker 1: two thousand seven hundred and fifty nine roubles worth of damage. ROBERTA. 585 00:31:31,600 --> 00:31:34,240 Speaker 1: Manning and her study of the nineteen o five Revolution stated, 586 00:31:34,480 --> 00:31:37,320 Speaker 1: under these conditions of near total breakdown in government authority 587 00:31:37,360 --> 00:31:40,240 Speaker 1: and paralysis of the government in elite, which temporarily lost 588 00:31:40,240 --> 00:31:43,200 Speaker 1: faith in its ability to administer the nation, rural Russia 589 00:31:43,320 --> 00:31:45,560 Speaker 1: rose up to join its urban partners in the greatest 590 00:31:45,600 --> 00:31:49,360 Speaker 1: most destructive series of agrarian uprisings since the Pugachev Rebellion 591 00:31:49,400 --> 00:31:52,920 Speaker 1: of the eighteenth century. So by the end of nineteen 592 00:31:52,920 --> 00:31:56,240 Speaker 1: o five, there are thirteen thousand, nine hundred ninety five 593 00:31:56,280 --> 00:31:59,280 Speaker 1: recorded strikes. There are riots, there are there are like 594 00:31:59,400 --> 00:32:02,520 Speaker 1: thousands of assassinations over this period of time. Like they 595 00:32:02,520 --> 00:32:08,480 Speaker 1: are massacring government officials by by the fucking football team's worth. Um, 596 00:32:08,560 --> 00:32:12,120 Speaker 1: that seems egregious, right, I mean yeah, like I get 597 00:32:12,200 --> 00:32:13,800 Speaker 1: I get it. But also at the same time, it's 598 00:32:13,800 --> 00:32:15,640 Speaker 1: like I feel like a couple of guys got a 599 00:32:15,680 --> 00:32:17,760 Speaker 1: lot caught off. Yeah, I mean it's pretty bad, Like 600 00:32:17,840 --> 00:32:21,640 Speaker 1: it's really ugly, and it's ugly and because like not 601 00:32:21,680 --> 00:32:24,400 Speaker 1: to take anything from like the ministers or from the 602 00:32:24,480 --> 00:32:26,560 Speaker 1: terrorists who are in some of these are acts of 603 00:32:26,600 --> 00:32:28,560 Speaker 1: were like just a guy will shoot this dude who 604 00:32:28,640 --> 00:32:31,160 Speaker 1: was like a police commissioner who was like specifically like 605 00:32:31,320 --> 00:32:33,720 Speaker 1: you did this crackdown, I'm gonna kill you. Some of 606 00:32:33,720 --> 00:32:35,840 Speaker 1: them are like, we're going to set off eighty pounds 607 00:32:35,840 --> 00:32:38,640 Speaker 1: of T and T in a crowded neighborhood to like 608 00:32:38,680 --> 00:32:42,920 Speaker 1: take this guy out. You know. Um, it's a lot 609 00:32:42,920 --> 00:32:45,520 Speaker 1: of it is really ugly. And part of why it's 610 00:32:45,560 --> 00:32:48,320 Speaker 1: really ugly is these are kind of established that. I mean, 611 00:32:48,840 --> 00:32:52,120 Speaker 1: he was his dad established back in the eighteen sixties 612 00:32:52,200 --> 00:32:56,200 Speaker 1: when their grandpa was assassinated that like, well, whenever there's unrest, 613 00:32:56,240 --> 00:32:58,760 Speaker 1: we kill people in huge numbers, and that's how we 614 00:32:58,800 --> 00:33:01,600 Speaker 1: deal with unrest is man murder. And the czar has 615 00:33:01,600 --> 00:33:04,120 Speaker 1: a thousand people killed, you know, at at the gates 616 00:33:04,120 --> 00:33:07,320 Speaker 1: of his palace. Like that is the way the Russian 617 00:33:07,440 --> 00:33:10,480 Speaker 1: state handles unrest. So when people rise up against the 618 00:33:10,520 --> 00:33:13,840 Speaker 1: Russian state, where are the stakes? This is how you fight? 619 00:33:14,000 --> 00:33:16,600 Speaker 1: You fight by killing huge numbers of people. I learned 620 00:33:16,640 --> 00:33:19,200 Speaker 1: from watching you dad, you know, Like that's pretty bit's 621 00:33:19,240 --> 00:33:21,680 Speaker 1: a pretty base answer too, And it's just like, I 622 00:33:21,720 --> 00:33:24,080 Speaker 1: mean that's like the number one thing you go to. Yeah, 623 00:33:24,200 --> 00:33:27,920 Speaker 1: this is what I guess this is how this works. Um. So, yeah, 624 00:33:27,960 --> 00:33:30,120 Speaker 1: and the government's the first thing they always have to 625 00:33:30,200 --> 00:33:32,880 Speaker 1: like throw out obviously, like every other government when there's 626 00:33:32,920 --> 00:33:35,959 Speaker 1: you know, any kind of popular unrest and programs are happening. 627 00:33:35,960 --> 00:33:38,960 Speaker 1: In this period, it's very messy time. So you've got 628 00:33:39,000 --> 00:33:41,480 Speaker 1: obvious and some of those programs are like these these 629 00:33:41,560 --> 00:33:45,680 Speaker 1: right wing groups, um, the Black Hundreds, which are like Czarists, 630 00:33:46,040 --> 00:33:47,520 Speaker 1: we'll talk about them in a little bit. Some of 631 00:33:47,560 --> 00:33:49,440 Speaker 1: them are happy are some of them are being done 632 00:33:49,440 --> 00:33:51,200 Speaker 1: by like left wing groups, saying most of it is 633 00:33:51,240 --> 00:33:53,280 Speaker 1: from the right, most of these programs. A lot of 634 00:33:53,280 --> 00:33:56,560 Speaker 1: it though I probably the bulk of it isn't isn't specifically, 635 00:33:57,000 --> 00:34:00,640 Speaker 1: it's just like it's reactions to the things that the 636 00:34:00,920 --> 00:34:02,920 Speaker 1: that the left you're doing. So you'll have like a 637 00:34:03,000 --> 00:34:05,520 Speaker 1: striker and uprising in Odessa, or you'll have a terrorist 638 00:34:05,600 --> 00:34:07,840 Speaker 1: attack that kills this minister, and then people will blame 639 00:34:07,840 --> 00:34:09,360 Speaker 1: it on the Jews and there will be a pagram 640 00:34:09,440 --> 00:34:12,280 Speaker 1: and you know, like that's that's kind of the way 641 00:34:12,760 --> 00:34:15,920 Speaker 1: this whole thing goes. It's a very messy period of time. UM. 642 00:34:16,040 --> 00:34:20,040 Speaker 1: Russia does not have cops really like they have police, 643 00:34:20,160 --> 00:34:24,359 Speaker 1: and they try to tamp down on unrest um. But 644 00:34:24,400 --> 00:34:26,480 Speaker 1: they don't. There's not there's like one of them for 645 00:34:26,480 --> 00:34:29,239 Speaker 1: every several thousand people. So whenever they really need to 646 00:34:29,280 --> 00:34:32,320 Speaker 1: crack heads, it's the army. UM. But the army's mutinying 647 00:34:32,400 --> 00:34:34,600 Speaker 1: all over because they've just lost this war, just like 648 00:34:34,640 --> 00:34:37,600 Speaker 1: the navy. UM. So the only thing you can really 649 00:34:37,600 --> 00:34:40,200 Speaker 1: get the army to crack down on is the Bolsheviks. Right. 650 00:34:40,520 --> 00:34:43,200 Speaker 1: So when you have these left wing uprisings, these are 651 00:34:43,239 --> 00:34:45,960 Speaker 1: can generally get military units and to fight them. But 652 00:34:46,000 --> 00:34:49,600 Speaker 1: when you have these programs that are responses to these uprisings, 653 00:34:49,600 --> 00:34:52,440 Speaker 1: in some cases you can't convince the army is not 654 00:34:52,480 --> 00:34:54,080 Speaker 1: going to go crack down on them because the army 655 00:34:54,160 --> 00:34:56,640 Speaker 1: is like, well, we're pretty racist too, and the cops 656 00:34:56,680 --> 00:34:59,200 Speaker 1: are like actively participating in the pagram, so they're not 657 00:34:59,239 --> 00:35:04,280 Speaker 1: going to do no. That part's cool. So Nicholas also 658 00:35:04,400 --> 00:35:07,560 Speaker 1: comes to see that like, well, maybe these programs are 659 00:35:07,560 --> 00:35:09,799 Speaker 1: a good thing because all of the people doing the 660 00:35:09,840 --> 00:35:14,239 Speaker 1: revolutions are Jews, which is not true, um, but they are. 661 00:35:14,280 --> 00:35:16,399 Speaker 1: There are a number of them are Jewish people because 662 00:35:16,440 --> 00:35:19,400 Speaker 1: Jewish people are particularly oppressed by this. Are is someone 663 00:35:19,480 --> 00:35:21,960 Speaker 1: lying about Jews so they can do violence towards them, 664 00:35:22,000 --> 00:35:24,080 Speaker 1: that there's this thing. Later in life, when he gets 665 00:35:24,120 --> 00:35:25,960 Speaker 1: over through the fact, he spends a lot of time 666 00:35:26,000 --> 00:35:28,960 Speaker 1: listing out all of the revolutionaries and like their secret 667 00:35:29,040 --> 00:35:32,200 Speaker 1: Jewish roots. Um, which is wrong about a lot of 668 00:35:32,200 --> 00:35:34,160 Speaker 1: them were not Jewish. That he just like found ways 669 00:35:34,160 --> 00:35:35,960 Speaker 1: to believe they were Jewish because he he comes to 670 00:35:35,960 --> 00:35:39,520 Speaker 1: believe that, like all resistance to his regime, is rooted 671 00:35:39,600 --> 00:35:42,279 Speaker 1: in the Jews. Um. He writes this in a letter 672 00:35:42,320 --> 00:35:45,920 Speaker 1: to his mom, quote, nine tenths of the troublemakers are Jews. 673 00:35:45,960 --> 00:35:48,400 Speaker 1: The people's whole anger turned against them. That is how 674 00:35:48,440 --> 00:35:51,000 Speaker 1: the programs happened. It is amazing how they took place 675 00:35:51,000 --> 00:35:54,360 Speaker 1: in the towns of Russia and Siberia. Now there's a 676 00:35:54,360 --> 00:35:56,120 Speaker 1: lot of debate as to whether or not those are 677 00:35:56,120 --> 00:35:59,200 Speaker 1: deliberately incited and organized programs as a way to regain 678 00:35:59,280 --> 00:36:02,680 Speaker 1: control and alps distract people from attacking the state. Whether 679 00:36:02,760 --> 00:36:05,040 Speaker 1: or not he had any sort of plan, the violence 680 00:36:05,080 --> 00:36:08,160 Speaker 1: often worked out exactly as one assumes he would have wanted. 681 00:36:08,280 --> 00:36:10,280 Speaker 1: And I'm going to quote now from an academic study 682 00:36:10,280 --> 00:36:13,640 Speaker 1: in Monde, russ After the astounding news of the October 683 00:36:13,640 --> 00:36:16,800 Speaker 1: Manifesto demonstrations and meetings with red flags began to occur 684 00:36:17,200 --> 00:36:19,719 Speaker 1: now and then they were accompanied by excesses insulting to 685 00:36:19,760 --> 00:36:21,759 Speaker 1: the Czarist throne. This is like the start of the 686 00:36:22,080 --> 00:36:25,320 Speaker 1: left wing revolution against the Tsar. Portraits of Nicholas the Second, 687 00:36:25,320 --> 00:36:27,839 Speaker 1: so revered by monarchists, were taken down by walls and 688 00:36:27,880 --> 00:36:31,200 Speaker 1: sometimes from walls and sometimes destroyed, and meetings. Money was 689 00:36:31,239 --> 00:36:34,400 Speaker 1: collected for Nicholas's burial on Kiev on the balcony of 690 00:36:34,400 --> 00:36:36,359 Speaker 1: the city Duma building. One of those in a meeting, 691 00:36:36,360 --> 00:36:38,919 Speaker 1: cut a hole in Aazarist portrait and sticking his own 692 00:36:38,920 --> 00:36:41,960 Speaker 1: threat head through the hole, replacing the Tsar's face, shouted, now, 693 00:36:42,000 --> 00:36:44,080 Speaker 1: I am the sovereign. You have to imagine that guy 694 00:36:44,160 --> 00:36:46,480 Speaker 1: was pretty pretty drunk. I gotta be honest, man, that 695 00:36:46,560 --> 00:36:48,440 Speaker 1: sounds like that. That's a good time and son of 696 00:36:48,480 --> 00:36:50,440 Speaker 1: a bit, that does sound fun. This is the good timing, 697 00:36:50,480 --> 00:36:53,480 Speaker 1: son of a bitch part. It takes a turn here um. 698 00:36:53,520 --> 00:36:56,640 Speaker 1: The the admirers of autocracy old customs in order regarded 699 00:36:56,680 --> 00:36:59,080 Speaker 1: such events as an outrage, a triumph of Jews and 700 00:36:59,160 --> 00:37:03,680 Speaker 1: Sadistas in seditious intelligencia, and came out with a furious protest. 701 00:37:03,960 --> 00:37:06,600 Speaker 1: Real cases of offenses to monarch as symbol similar to 702 00:37:06,600 --> 00:37:09,960 Speaker 1: that described above were not ubiquitous. Sometimes they were exaggerated 703 00:37:10,040 --> 00:37:13,160 Speaker 1: or just invented from nothing by pre pre program rumors, 704 00:37:13,200 --> 00:37:17,279 Speaker 1: often with preposterous accusations of outrages against Orthodox shrines or 705 00:37:17,280 --> 00:37:20,719 Speaker 1: Czarist portraits. For example, right before a program and Kiev, 706 00:37:20,840 --> 00:37:24,920 Speaker 1: rumors circulated about an attack by slur against Jewish people 707 00:37:25,480 --> 00:37:29,640 Speaker 1: to a monastery, Black Hundreds organized belligerent counter demonstrations, sometimes 708 00:37:29,719 --> 00:37:32,640 Speaker 1: under pretext of celebrating the ninth anniversary of the ascension 709 00:37:32,640 --> 00:37:35,160 Speaker 1: of Nicholas the Second to the throne, which clashed with 710 00:37:35,280 --> 00:37:38,320 Speaker 1: left wing meetings and fights turned into programs. Depending on 711 00:37:38,360 --> 00:37:41,279 Speaker 1: the possibility or desire of local authorities to restore order, 712 00:37:41,560 --> 00:37:45,360 Speaker 1: these could continue for days. Almost inevitably, the Czar's portrait 713 00:37:45,440 --> 00:37:48,879 Speaker 1: was present at these disgraceful events. Black Hundred demonstrations were 714 00:37:48,880 --> 00:37:52,160 Speaker 1: often were very often physically organized around the Emperor's portrait. 715 00:37:52,400 --> 00:37:55,520 Speaker 1: It played an important symbolic role, highlighting the assembled crowds 716 00:37:55,520 --> 00:37:57,920 Speaker 1: loyalty to the throne and as if it had provided 717 00:37:57,960 --> 00:38:01,840 Speaker 1: Zara sanction to the program a programs, rumors spread wildly 718 00:38:01,840 --> 00:38:04,840 Speaker 1: that Nicholas Second the Second permitted them to reckon smash 719 00:38:04,880 --> 00:38:08,320 Speaker 1: and beat the seditious anti's, anti monarchy rebels and tumpsk. 720 00:38:08,480 --> 00:38:11,080 Speaker 1: The following ritual was observed. A crowd would come up 721 00:38:11,080 --> 00:38:13,399 Speaker 1: to a store and the one walking up front would 722 00:38:13,400 --> 00:38:15,880 Speaker 1: turn to the portrait of Nicholas and ask, your majesty 723 00:38:15,960 --> 00:38:18,200 Speaker 1: do you allow us to destroy this store? The one 724 00:38:18,280 --> 00:38:21,399 Speaker 1: carrying the portrait would answer, I permit it. So it's 725 00:38:21,680 --> 00:38:23,480 Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'm gonna go out on a limb and 726 00:38:23,520 --> 00:38:26,520 Speaker 1: say that that's not on the level I mean officially 727 00:38:26,560 --> 00:38:29,640 Speaker 1: state saying it isn't. It isn't because the state's not 728 00:38:29,760 --> 00:38:33,319 Speaker 1: sending in troops to stop this. And later on in 729 00:38:33,360 --> 00:38:35,880 Speaker 1: the wake of this, Nicolas pardons a lot of the 730 00:38:35,880 --> 00:38:39,879 Speaker 1: programasts um and as he just wrote to his mom, 731 00:38:39,920 --> 00:38:42,400 Speaker 1: like he sees most of the revolutionaries as Jewish, he 732 00:38:42,440 --> 00:38:45,560 Speaker 1: sees the people's anger against Jewish folks. He sees these 733 00:38:45,560 --> 00:38:48,560 Speaker 1: programs as like an expression of honest and fair anger. 734 00:38:49,080 --> 00:38:51,279 Speaker 1: So while he's not he is not saying go out 735 00:38:51,280 --> 00:38:55,120 Speaker 1: and destroy Jewish businesses. But when these crowds take his 736 00:38:55,200 --> 00:38:57,680 Speaker 1: portrait and use it to like justify their destruction of 737 00:38:57,719 --> 00:39:00,800 Speaker 1: Jewish businesses, they're not making that up out of whole cloth, 738 00:39:00,960 --> 00:39:06,600 Speaker 1: you know, yeah, um, yeah, and uh, it's it's it's 739 00:39:06,960 --> 00:39:09,279 Speaker 1: it's pretty ugly. There's one cool moment and some of 740 00:39:09,280 --> 00:39:11,560 Speaker 1: this stuff where so one of the things that will 741 00:39:11,560 --> 00:39:14,920 Speaker 1: happen is these processions, these black hundreds marching with porches 742 00:39:14,960 --> 00:39:17,560 Speaker 1: of the Czar will like walk around and they'll demand 743 00:39:17,680 --> 00:39:20,839 Speaker 1: people on the street, um remove their caps and like 744 00:39:20,920 --> 00:39:23,600 Speaker 1: bow to the czar and if you don't do this, 745 00:39:24,040 --> 00:39:25,839 Speaker 1: you'll get the ship beaten out of you, right Like 746 00:39:25,960 --> 00:39:28,480 Speaker 1: It's it's kind of like this gang being like, hey, 747 00:39:28,560 --> 00:39:30,399 Speaker 1: you gotta like the guy in our picture or we're 748 00:39:30,400 --> 00:39:32,520 Speaker 1: gonna kick the funk out of you. You know. Sometimes 749 00:39:32,600 --> 00:39:35,319 Speaker 1: they murder people and there's we've had that. We've had 750 00:39:35,360 --> 00:39:38,240 Speaker 1: that in America pretty pretty recently, and we will again. 751 00:39:38,800 --> 00:39:42,720 Speaker 1: There's a beautiful moment. There's this Bolshevik v Morozov who 752 00:39:42,920 --> 00:39:45,920 Speaker 1: encounters one of these processions and they're like, hey, you 753 00:39:45,960 --> 00:39:47,920 Speaker 1: gotta take your hat off and you've got to declare 754 00:39:47,960 --> 00:39:51,000 Speaker 1: loyalty to this picture of those are um And he 755 00:39:51,080 --> 00:39:54,239 Speaker 1: doesn't do that, v moros off. Instead, he calls the 756 00:39:54,440 --> 00:39:57,360 Speaker 1: ars scoundrel, pulls out a gun, shoots two of the 757 00:39:57,360 --> 00:40:00,359 Speaker 1: people carrying the portrait to death um and does get 758 00:40:00,400 --> 00:40:03,120 Speaker 1: beaten so badly that he nearly dies, but he survives. 759 00:40:04,080 --> 00:40:06,960 Speaker 1: I mean he killed two people and a and a portrait. 760 00:40:07,680 --> 00:40:10,400 Speaker 1: That's a pretty good response. He did get nearly beaten 761 00:40:10,400 --> 00:40:14,000 Speaker 1: to death, though, so you know, mileage may vary. Yeah, 762 00:40:14,160 --> 00:40:16,279 Speaker 1: he made it into the book. They're all dead in 763 00:40:16,280 --> 00:40:18,080 Speaker 1: the story now, but he made it into the book. 764 00:40:18,160 --> 00:40:20,160 Speaker 1: We do all it probably sucked at the time, but 765 00:40:20,239 --> 00:40:23,319 Speaker 1: we do all know he was a badass. Now damn right, hey, man, 766 00:40:23,400 --> 00:40:27,359 Speaker 1: ass kickings happen. That just that's gonna happen. And what's 767 00:40:27,400 --> 00:40:30,600 Speaker 1: happened shooting two guys holding a portrait of an assholes forever? 768 00:40:31,000 --> 00:40:34,080 Speaker 1: That literally, that's that's your new that's your new master 769 00:40:34,200 --> 00:40:37,920 Speaker 1: card commercial, even though they haven't made those commercials. And 770 00:40:38,000 --> 00:40:40,600 Speaker 1: what is a little dated, But you know what's not 771 00:40:41,040 --> 00:40:52,600 Speaker 1: a dated ad is these ads right now? Oh yeah, 772 00:40:53,640 --> 00:40:58,560 Speaker 1: we are back so those modern those modern ads we 773 00:40:58,680 --> 00:41:02,359 Speaker 1: just had shamefully honored. So Jews were not the only 774 00:41:02,480 --> 00:41:07,560 Speaker 1: racial victims of these prosarist moms right back from ats 775 00:41:07,640 --> 00:41:12,879 Speaker 1: so funny. Yeah, that was some great anyway, The Jews 776 00:41:12,880 --> 00:41:15,759 Speaker 1: weren't the only there were other races that the Czarists 777 00:41:15,840 --> 00:41:20,120 Speaker 1: saved it. Yeah, in northern Central Russia. I guess these 778 00:41:20,120 --> 00:41:23,239 Speaker 1: aren't racial victims, but students and academics are targeted and 779 00:41:23,280 --> 00:41:25,640 Speaker 1: often murdered. Like they'll they'll beat up college kids and 780 00:41:25,680 --> 00:41:29,319 Speaker 1: professors and assassinate them the right will because of their 781 00:41:29,320 --> 00:41:33,480 Speaker 1: connections to Yeah, yeah kind of. It's also like a 782 00:41:33,520 --> 00:41:35,200 Speaker 1: lot of the people. Often it will be a case 783 00:41:35,200 --> 00:41:37,839 Speaker 1: of like, yes, some like college students who got radicalized 784 00:41:38,040 --> 00:41:40,840 Speaker 1: will set off a bomb to kill these local officials, 785 00:41:41,080 --> 00:41:42,880 Speaker 1: and then as a result, some like people in the 786 00:41:42,880 --> 00:41:44,920 Speaker 1: town will go murder their professor. You know, ship like 787 00:41:44,960 --> 00:41:48,799 Speaker 1: that's happening too. It's ugly, you know, it's it's kind 788 00:41:48,800 --> 00:41:50,840 Speaker 1: of a civil war is going on in Russia right now, 789 00:41:50,840 --> 00:41:52,520 Speaker 1: and it's very much a prelude for the civil war 790 00:41:52,560 --> 00:41:55,320 Speaker 1: that will happen not all that long in the future 791 00:41:55,400 --> 00:41:59,360 Speaker 1: and kill what four million people? Um, I mean, yeah, 792 00:41:59,760 --> 00:42:03,120 Speaker 1: there are other targets. Im Baku Armenians were targeted by 793 00:42:03,120 --> 00:42:06,439 Speaker 1: the Tsarists. Getting any kind of comprehensive death toll would 794 00:42:06,440 --> 00:42:09,239 Speaker 1: be impossible, But during October of nineteen oh five, at 795 00:42:09,280 --> 00:42:12,560 Speaker 1: least six hundred and twenty two people were murdered uh 796 00:42:12,560 --> 00:42:16,560 Speaker 1: and three thousand four injured in programs alone. That's just 797 00:42:16,719 --> 00:42:20,759 Speaker 1: deaths from these kind of like right wing masses of violence. Uh. 798 00:42:20,760 --> 00:42:24,239 Speaker 1: Those numbers come from police sources, though, which probably under 799 00:42:24,360 --> 00:42:27,719 Speaker 1: counts the death toll. Shlomo Lambrosa, who's a scholar, calculates 800 00:42:27,719 --> 00:42:30,120 Speaker 1: more than three thousand, one hundred three deaths just among 801 00:42:30,200 --> 00:42:34,440 Speaker 1: Jews during the nineteen o five programs. Now, historians seem 802 00:42:34,440 --> 00:42:36,600 Speaker 1: in agreement that Czar Nicholas the Second did not have 803 00:42:36,640 --> 00:42:39,279 Speaker 1: a concerted plan to spark programs. He was kind of 804 00:42:39,320 --> 00:42:41,840 Speaker 1: okay with them. He did not devote a lot of 805 00:42:41,880 --> 00:42:45,120 Speaker 1: effort to stopping them. But there were there were For 806 00:42:45,239 --> 00:42:48,400 Speaker 1: years afterwards, people would like theorize that he had orchestrated 807 00:42:48,400 --> 00:42:51,320 Speaker 1: the programs. There really does not seem to be evidence 808 00:42:51,400 --> 00:42:53,799 Speaker 1: of that that it was a central plan. But we 809 00:42:53,880 --> 00:42:57,719 Speaker 1: do know that anti Sism, anti Semitism was stoked purposefully 810 00:42:57,840 --> 00:43:01,319 Speaker 1: by the Tsar's men, whether or not he gave the order. Um, 811 00:43:01,560 --> 00:43:04,160 Speaker 1: there was this. This is kind of found out afterwards 812 00:43:04,160 --> 00:43:07,000 Speaker 1: that in a corner of the St. Petersburg Police Department 813 00:43:07,040 --> 00:43:10,239 Speaker 1: there's a secret printing press which is putting out pamphlets 814 00:43:10,239 --> 00:43:13,319 Speaker 1: this entire time urging people to quote kill Jews, to 815 00:43:13,400 --> 00:43:17,759 Speaker 1: tear them apart into tiny pieces. Um. Yeah, that's not 816 00:43:17,800 --> 00:43:21,520 Speaker 1: a not a lot of like wiggle room. There not 817 00:43:21,640 --> 00:43:26,320 Speaker 1: a lot of room for yeah interpretation. Just just kill them. 818 00:43:26,320 --> 00:43:29,480 Speaker 1: It's fine, joke, he's joke, he's joke, but please, no, 819 00:43:29,640 --> 00:43:33,640 Speaker 1: we're kidding. Kill them. But the guy printing this is 820 00:43:33,680 --> 00:43:37,560 Speaker 1: a as a gendarme officer named Kamissarov Um and he's 821 00:43:38,560 --> 00:43:44,480 Speaker 1: has a role in spreading the uh the protocols of 822 00:43:44,480 --> 00:43:47,640 Speaker 1: the Elders of Zion to um and he's like he's 823 00:43:47,680 --> 00:43:52,000 Speaker 1: funneling them using police resources from St. Petersburg through right 824 00:43:52,000 --> 00:43:55,239 Speaker 1: wing organizations who spread them around the country and oftentimes 825 00:43:55,239 --> 00:43:56,839 Speaker 1: these things will spread to an area and then there 826 00:43:56,840 --> 00:44:00,799 Speaker 1: will be pagrams. UM. So this is where again maybe 827 00:44:00,880 --> 00:44:03,680 Speaker 1: Nikki wasn't explicitly aware of all this, but like his 828 00:44:03,880 --> 00:44:07,320 Speaker 1: dudes were doing it in the city where he was living, um, 829 00:44:07,440 --> 00:44:10,640 Speaker 1: using his money. So the idea that people suspect he 830 00:44:10,719 --> 00:44:13,560 Speaker 1: had a role in directly inciting pagrams, it doesn't come 831 00:44:13,560 --> 00:44:16,120 Speaker 1: out of nowhere. You know. Again, we may have seen 832 00:44:16,200 --> 00:44:20,040 Speaker 1: something like this relatively recently in our country. Yeah, thankfully 833 00:44:20,080 --> 00:44:22,160 Speaker 1: not with that kind of death toll. But it is 834 00:44:22,239 --> 00:44:25,560 Speaker 1: kind of like the the plausible deniability of the autocrat 835 00:44:25,760 --> 00:44:28,239 Speaker 1: you know who's like, oh, yeah, I mean people, it's 836 00:44:28,280 --> 00:44:30,560 Speaker 1: horrible when people do violent things. I don't think those 837 00:44:30,640 --> 00:44:33,759 Speaker 1: violent things are wrong, but like I'm not organizing it. 838 00:44:33,800 --> 00:44:36,440 Speaker 1: They just happened, and I say it's okay, but it's 839 00:44:36,480 --> 00:44:38,840 Speaker 1: also bad at the same time when anyone pushes me 840 00:44:38,920 --> 00:44:42,239 Speaker 1: on it, you know, like, yeah, we've seen this, we 841 00:44:42,320 --> 00:44:45,319 Speaker 1: may I'm not gonna lie. That's something we've seen. So 842 00:44:45,600 --> 00:44:48,680 Speaker 1: the wave of rebellions, um, you know, the programs kind 843 00:44:48,719 --> 00:44:52,440 Speaker 1: of burned themselves out after enough people get the murder 844 00:44:52,480 --> 00:44:55,160 Speaker 1: out of their systems and the stealing out of their systems. Um. 845 00:44:55,280 --> 00:44:58,319 Speaker 1: The rebellions, the actual like kind of left wing uprisings 846 00:44:58,360 --> 00:45:01,520 Speaker 1: against the state are put down by the military, and 847 00:45:01,600 --> 00:45:04,480 Speaker 1: Nikki orders exceptional brutality to be used in defense of 848 00:45:04,560 --> 00:45:07,920 Speaker 1: his regime. When the St. Petersburg workers district is stormed 849 00:45:07,960 --> 00:45:11,520 Speaker 1: by Russian troops his he has his soldiers use artillery 850 00:45:11,560 --> 00:45:15,080 Speaker 1: to pound populated districts of his own capital, killing three 851 00:45:15,120 --> 00:45:19,399 Speaker 1: thousand people, um christ um a lot, which is like, 852 00:45:20,080 --> 00:45:24,160 Speaker 1: that's as many minister that's as many like government officials 853 00:45:24,200 --> 00:45:27,399 Speaker 1: as the revolutionaries kill in a period of years. Um. 854 00:45:27,440 --> 00:45:29,680 Speaker 1: And they're just like the shelling of his own capital. 855 00:45:30,120 --> 00:45:32,920 Speaker 1: The emperor writes in his diary, quote, the armed rebellion 856 00:45:32,920 --> 00:45:36,160 Speaker 1: in Moscow has been crushed. The abscess was growing. Now 857 00:45:36,200 --> 00:45:39,400 Speaker 1: it's burst. When one of his generals in the Baltics 858 00:45:39,840 --> 00:45:42,120 Speaker 1: is not putting down the locals with enough brutality for 859 00:45:42,200 --> 00:45:45,200 Speaker 1: Nicki's liking, bizarre, sends a man to tell him, quote, 860 00:45:45,480 --> 00:45:47,520 Speaker 1: the only thing you'll get in trouble for is not 861 00:45:47,600 --> 00:45:52,120 Speaker 1: being brutal enough. He then immediately executes a thousand prisoners. So, like, 862 00:45:52,640 --> 00:45:55,160 Speaker 1: he sees this guy puts down this rebellion, and he's like, 863 00:45:55,200 --> 00:45:58,279 Speaker 1: you're taking a lot of prisoners alive. Like, I might 864 00:45:58,320 --> 00:46:00,120 Speaker 1: get angry at you for that, but if you all 865 00:46:00,160 --> 00:46:01,840 Speaker 1: a bunch of them, there's no amount of people you 866 00:46:01,880 --> 00:46:04,319 Speaker 1: could kill and piss me off. So this guy kills 867 00:46:04,320 --> 00:46:06,880 Speaker 1: a thousand people and like very rightly, being like, well, 868 00:46:06,920 --> 00:46:08,759 Speaker 1: these are basically just said I should murder more of 869 00:46:08,800 --> 00:46:11,120 Speaker 1: these folks. I like that. He was like given permission. 870 00:46:11,120 --> 00:46:13,040 Speaker 1: He's like, well, let's just go for the whole thing. Well, 871 00:46:13,080 --> 00:46:16,720 Speaker 1: I guess I guess we'll try. Uh. Simon Montfior writes 872 00:46:17,160 --> 00:46:20,440 Speaker 1: when he heard that a punitive detachment had accepted the surrender, 873 00:46:20,440 --> 00:46:24,200 Speaker 1: of rebellious Lavonians. He insisted the town should have been destroyed. 874 00:46:24,520 --> 00:46:27,440 Speaker 1: Arrests were celebrated with the word power. This is Nikki 875 00:46:27,520 --> 00:46:30,320 Speaker 1: writing in his own diary, while the summary execution of 876 00:46:30,360 --> 00:46:35,560 Speaker 1: twenty six rebellious railway road workers earned an imperial Bravo. Bezobrazov, 877 00:46:35,920 --> 00:46:38,160 Speaker 1: brother of Nikki's Far East adviser and one of his 878 00:46:38,200 --> 00:46:42,480 Speaker 1: favorite guards officers, staged ghoulish public shows shows of bodies 879 00:46:42,760 --> 00:46:46,000 Speaker 1: dangling on gibbets. When Commander Richter, son of Alexander the 880 00:46:46,040 --> 00:46:48,760 Speaker 1: Third's crony, now leading a punitive detachment in the Baltics, 881 00:46:49,000 --> 00:46:51,759 Speaker 1: not only shot his prisoners but hang the bodies. Afterwards, 882 00:46:51,920 --> 00:46:56,040 Speaker 1: Nicholas wrote another bravo. Trip Off informed him that Cossacks 883 00:46:56,040 --> 00:46:59,520 Speaker 1: had overused their whips. Very well done, applauded Nicholas. When 884 00:46:59,520 --> 00:47:02,839 Speaker 1: he heard of more executions, he commented, this really tickles me. 885 00:47:03,239 --> 00:47:05,280 Speaker 1: So this is how he writes about, like the crimes 886 00:47:05,280 --> 00:47:08,880 Speaker 1: against humanity. I'm tickled by the fact that you've executed 887 00:47:08,880 --> 00:47:13,200 Speaker 1: these people. Oh well done. They whipped people to death. Bravo. Definitely, 888 00:47:13,400 --> 00:47:17,160 Speaker 1: it definitely sees that that, like um, that disconnect when 889 00:47:17,160 --> 00:47:23,240 Speaker 1: you're raised like the poppish child of privilege and power. 890 00:47:25,080 --> 00:47:26,960 Speaker 1: It is really like if you ever played a game 891 00:47:27,000 --> 00:47:30,520 Speaker 1: like Civilization or you know, Age of Wonders or whatever, 892 00:47:30,520 --> 00:47:33,160 Speaker 1: where you like build an empire and there's sometimes people 893 00:47:33,200 --> 00:47:36,760 Speaker 1: rebel and you crack down on these like fake people 894 00:47:36,760 --> 00:47:40,080 Speaker 1: who don't really exist. He feels that same way about 895 00:47:40,160 --> 00:47:42,319 Speaker 1: like the lives of thousands of real people. It's like 896 00:47:42,400 --> 00:47:44,160 Speaker 1: he's playing a video game. He's like looking at his 897 00:47:44,200 --> 00:47:46,680 Speaker 1: maps and someone saying, we put them down, and we 898 00:47:46,680 --> 00:47:49,040 Speaker 1: we executed a thousand of them, or like how many 899 00:47:49,040 --> 00:47:50,520 Speaker 1: of us would you like to kill out of these 900 00:47:50,520 --> 00:47:52,719 Speaker 1: that we've captured, and he makes a note of how 901 00:47:52,719 --> 00:47:55,560 Speaker 1: many people he once killed, and like then he goes 902 00:47:55,640 --> 00:47:58,440 Speaker 1: home feeling like he's winning the game finally, I mean, 903 00:47:58,480 --> 00:48:00,360 Speaker 1: I feel like a win. Yeah, yeah, are all a 904 00:48:00,360 --> 00:48:03,400 Speaker 1: winner getting to hear this story. So in total, Bizar's 905 00:48:03,440 --> 00:48:06,680 Speaker 1: men kill fifteen thousand people um at least, and deport 906 00:48:06,760 --> 00:48:10,480 Speaker 1: forty more, cracking down on the rebellion. And this time 907 00:48:11,040 --> 00:48:13,600 Speaker 1: it's enough, you know, like this is enough that he 908 00:48:13,719 --> 00:48:19,200 Speaker 1: is able to hold onto power barely. Um. Yeah, in 909 00:48:19,239 --> 00:48:21,520 Speaker 1: eight years, things aren't going to go so well. Now, 910 00:48:21,719 --> 00:48:24,759 Speaker 1: before we roll out today, Jeff, we should probably talk 911 00:48:24,760 --> 00:48:28,400 Speaker 1: a little bit about ra Ra Rasputine, lover of the 912 00:48:28,440 --> 00:48:32,160 Speaker 1: Russian queen, hell boy villain boy villains. Yeah, one of 913 00:48:32,200 --> 00:48:35,919 Speaker 1: the better hell boy villains. Um. Guy, I get told 914 00:48:35,960 --> 00:48:39,600 Speaker 1: I look like on a not a regular basis. Um, 915 00:48:39,680 --> 00:48:42,799 Speaker 1: I can see that. Yeah, well, um, And it's one 916 00:48:42,800 --> 00:48:46,160 Speaker 1: of those things. He is definitely the single most famous 917 00:48:46,200 --> 00:48:49,040 Speaker 1: person today in the whole Romanov story. As a general rule, 918 00:48:49,080 --> 00:48:51,960 Speaker 1: the only reason people talk about Nicholas the second or 919 00:48:52,000 --> 00:48:55,560 Speaker 1: his wife, um is either to talk about Anastasia or 920 00:48:55,600 --> 00:48:58,239 Speaker 1: to talk about Rasputin, and generally both at the same time. 921 00:48:58,320 --> 00:49:01,640 Speaker 1: Like in the Disney movie I don't I don't think 922 00:49:01,680 --> 00:49:04,799 Speaker 1: you look like Rasputing. For the record, there's there's there's 923 00:49:04,840 --> 00:49:07,399 Speaker 1: more love in your eyes. Thank you, Sophie. That's very 924 00:49:07,400 --> 00:49:12,960 Speaker 1: sweet of you. Know. This is Robert. So it's one 925 00:49:12,960 --> 00:49:16,000 Speaker 1: of those things pop history is right, and that this 926 00:49:16,040 --> 00:49:20,319 Speaker 1: guy really is as influential as as the popular you know, 927 00:49:20,360 --> 00:49:22,600 Speaker 1: depictions make him say he's a huge part of the 928 00:49:22,640 --> 00:49:25,879 Speaker 1: regime and why a bunch of stuff happens. Um. It's 929 00:49:25,920 --> 00:49:28,600 Speaker 1: also like wrong in some weird ways because he is 930 00:49:29,080 --> 00:49:31,640 Speaker 1: like it always portrays him as this malevolent force and 931 00:49:31,680 --> 00:49:34,560 Speaker 1: he gives a lot of bad advice, his advice, but 932 00:49:34,600 --> 00:49:36,560 Speaker 1: he also is like one of the people saying like, 933 00:49:36,600 --> 00:49:40,160 Speaker 1: you should probably stop being shitty to Jewish people. Um, 934 00:49:40,320 --> 00:49:42,640 Speaker 1: you should probably not get into World War One. Now, 935 00:49:42,840 --> 00:49:45,960 Speaker 1: that's why people don't like it's also a rapist. Um 936 00:49:46,080 --> 00:49:48,120 Speaker 1: like there's he's not a good person. We'll do an 937 00:49:48,120 --> 00:49:52,160 Speaker 1: episode on Rasputin someday in the future. But I'm genuinely 938 00:49:52,200 --> 00:49:55,160 Speaker 1: surprised you haven't. Well, people keep telling me I look 939 00:49:55,239 --> 00:49:57,880 Speaker 1: like him, and it makes me you do not self conscious, 940 00:49:58,000 --> 00:50:01,040 Speaker 1: thank you, Sophie. So for now, the cliffs notes are 941 00:50:01,080 --> 00:50:02,799 Speaker 1: that he was a poor kid from the east of 942 00:50:02,880 --> 00:50:05,600 Speaker 1: fucking nowhere who got in trouble for like stealing some 943 00:50:05,680 --> 00:50:07,640 Speaker 1: ship and sleeping around, and he gets kicked out of 944 00:50:07,640 --> 00:50:09,759 Speaker 1: the town he comes from. He becomes a priest, he 945 00:50:09,800 --> 00:50:12,600 Speaker 1: sucks a bunch more people, and gradually he turns into 946 00:50:12,680 --> 00:50:16,120 Speaker 1: this like guru type cult figure. Um, he's kind of 947 00:50:16,120 --> 00:50:19,840 Speaker 1: a cult leader. He's not quite what we recognized as 948 00:50:19,840 --> 00:50:22,960 Speaker 1: a cult leader because he doesn't have like this group 949 00:50:23,000 --> 00:50:25,719 Speaker 1: who have a shared identity, and that identity is like 950 00:50:25,800 --> 00:50:28,120 Speaker 1: worshiping him, because like that would be too much for 951 00:50:28,160 --> 00:50:30,840 Speaker 1: the Czar and Czarina, right, the Czar's kind of his 952 00:50:30,880 --> 00:50:33,480 Speaker 1: own cult. You don't get to be a cult leader 953 00:50:33,520 --> 00:50:35,360 Speaker 1: like we know of a cult leader in Russia in 954 00:50:35,360 --> 00:50:40,200 Speaker 1: this period. Um no, because that's there. Yeah, but he's 955 00:50:40,239 --> 00:50:43,840 Speaker 1: kind of like cult cuckolding Bizar because the Czars kind 956 00:50:43,840 --> 00:50:47,680 Speaker 1: of his follower. It's it's it's an odd situation. And 957 00:50:47,719 --> 00:50:51,840 Speaker 1: again he follows, you know, in the footsteps of a 958 00:50:52,000 --> 00:50:58,160 Speaker 1: Philippe who really very very conscientiously uh seasoned to the 959 00:50:58,200 --> 00:51:01,359 Speaker 1: ground in front of or behind, so that this guy 960 00:51:01,360 --> 00:51:04,200 Speaker 1: would have an easier time pulling one over on the 961 00:51:04,239 --> 00:51:07,680 Speaker 1: biggest Rube in all of history. Um. So rest buten, 962 00:51:08,080 --> 00:51:10,840 Speaker 1: you know, as he starts to like develop this cult following, 963 00:51:10,880 --> 00:51:13,399 Speaker 1: he starts he claims that he calls himself a healer um. 964 00:51:13,440 --> 00:51:16,759 Speaker 1: And he begins traveling around wealthy St. Petersburg's circles, you know, 965 00:51:16,880 --> 00:51:19,560 Speaker 1: the families of the nobles and the wealthy, basically like helping. 966 00:51:19,960 --> 00:51:21,360 Speaker 1: A lot of times, it will be like a woman 967 00:51:21,480 --> 00:51:24,799 Speaker 1: has some sort of hysteria, and obviously his prescription is, well, 968 00:51:24,800 --> 00:51:28,120 Speaker 1: you should probably funk rescutin. And it works a lot 969 00:51:28,160 --> 00:51:31,320 Speaker 1: at the time, I guess because because he keeps keeps 970 00:51:31,320 --> 00:51:36,040 Speaker 1: getting word of mouth, you know, that's well yeah, um, 971 00:51:36,080 --> 00:51:39,160 Speaker 1: he winds up having a making his first connection to 972 00:51:39,200 --> 00:51:42,279 Speaker 1: the Romanov family through a Romanov named Nikolasha, who's like 973 00:51:42,320 --> 00:51:45,920 Speaker 1: a cousin of the czar um And Nikolasha is kind 974 00:51:45,960 --> 00:51:48,440 Speaker 1: of competent. He's one of he's a soldier, and he's 975 00:51:48,440 --> 00:51:51,120 Speaker 1: one of the few Romanovs who actually like isn't just 976 00:51:51,200 --> 00:51:53,319 Speaker 1: like doing that to dress up like he's not a 977 00:51:53,360 --> 00:51:57,120 Speaker 1: complete idiot when it comes to military matters. Um. He's 978 00:51:57,160 --> 00:51:59,680 Speaker 1: known as the Terrible for his temper, and the Czar 979 00:51:59,760 --> 00:52:01,840 Speaker 1: bres him in close to the family in the nineteen 980 00:52:01,840 --> 00:52:03,920 Speaker 1: o five uprisings because he thinks he might need to 981 00:52:03,920 --> 00:52:06,840 Speaker 1: appoint a dictator, Like it's going bad enough in nineteen 982 00:52:06,840 --> 00:52:08,200 Speaker 1: o five. That is, like, I might need to make 983 00:52:08,200 --> 00:52:10,160 Speaker 1: my cousin the dictator so that I don't have to 984 00:52:10,200 --> 00:52:11,759 Speaker 1: take the stink on me of doing some of this 985 00:52:11,880 --> 00:52:15,880 Speaker 1: ugly shit. It doesn't wind up, I mean, why not 986 00:52:16,080 --> 00:52:21,440 Speaker 1: have somebody with the nickname the Terrible. Hey, cousin the Terrible? 987 00:52:21,920 --> 00:52:28,280 Speaker 1: I got this like problem now. Nikolasha again, competent, soldier, 988 00:52:28,360 --> 00:52:30,120 Speaker 1: kind of a crazy person. He wanted to be a 989 00:52:30,120 --> 00:52:33,359 Speaker 1: medieval night. He kept a court of dwarves around him. 990 00:52:33,400 --> 00:52:35,680 Speaker 1: I think because he read that in a medieval storybook 991 00:52:35,719 --> 00:52:39,439 Speaker 1: at some point and decided it sounded cool. Um. That's 992 00:52:39,440 --> 00:52:43,920 Speaker 1: what he describes them as, a cult of a court 993 00:52:44,040 --> 00:52:47,920 Speaker 1: of of dwarves. I think it's you know, um, it's 994 00:52:47,960 --> 00:52:51,759 Speaker 1: it's nineteen o six. Um. And for an example, I'm 995 00:52:51,800 --> 00:52:54,480 Speaker 1: not I'm not judging the words at this point in time. 996 00:52:54,760 --> 00:52:57,000 Speaker 1: You should judge the pretty nice thing to say in 997 00:52:57,080 --> 00:52:59,920 Speaker 1: nineteen o six because another thing he's famous for is 998 00:53:00,000 --> 00:53:02,160 Speaker 1: he gets really drunk at a party, wants and he 999 00:53:02,200 --> 00:53:04,480 Speaker 1: wants to show off his favorite sword, and the way 1000 00:53:04,520 --> 00:53:06,239 Speaker 1: he does that is by using it to cut his 1001 00:53:06,280 --> 00:53:08,840 Speaker 1: pet dog in half. All Right, well, that's not I 1002 00:53:08,840 --> 00:53:11,439 Speaker 1: would say, I'm gonna go out on a that's not good. 1003 00:53:11,560 --> 00:53:16,880 Speaker 1: It's not. That's probably worse than some questionable linguistic choices 1004 00:53:16,920 --> 00:53:20,160 Speaker 1: he's made. Um. Now, like most nobles in this period, 1005 00:53:20,200 --> 00:53:23,400 Speaker 1: he believes in what he described as the divine origin 1006 00:53:23,480 --> 00:53:26,080 Speaker 1: of Czarist power. He felt God had given Nicholas the 1007 00:53:26,120 --> 00:53:29,920 Speaker 1: Second some special secret strength um that would lead him 1008 00:53:29,920 --> 00:53:31,839 Speaker 1: out of that would help him lead Russia out of 1009 00:53:31,880 --> 00:53:35,240 Speaker 1: like its problems. So obviously he falls immediately for everything 1010 00:53:35,320 --> 00:53:37,319 Speaker 1: Russia's suns. Guy. I thinks he's a medieval night. He's 1011 00:53:37,360 --> 00:53:39,960 Speaker 1: like very gullible. He buys into all this right the 1012 00:53:39,960 --> 00:53:42,880 Speaker 1: funk away um, and this is going to be the 1013 00:53:42,880 --> 00:53:47,640 Speaker 1: way in which Rasputin um lover of the Russian queen Um. 1014 00:53:47,760 --> 00:53:50,439 Speaker 1: Not really, but that's what a lot of Russians believe 1015 00:53:50,440 --> 00:53:53,120 Speaker 1: at this time. Um. That's how he winds up getting 1016 00:53:53,120 --> 00:53:55,000 Speaker 1: into the family. And we will talk more about that 1017 00:53:55,120 --> 00:53:58,080 Speaker 1: and more about everything else in our conclusion to the 1018 00:53:58,160 --> 00:54:03,480 Speaker 1: epic saga Nicolas the second. What a dick, Jeff, He 1019 00:54:03,600 --> 00:54:06,000 Speaker 1: got any plugg doubles to plug? First? 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