WEBVTT - Part Three: Tzar Nicholas II Was A Real Dick 0:00:03.000 --> 0:00:08.680 Oh oh man, welcome back to Behind the Bastards, the 0:00:08.720 --> 0:00:13.200 podcast that's just as refreshing as as pounding a great 0:00:13.280 --> 0:00:22.040 zba um m. That's good Zbia. Jeff May guest, thanks friend, podcaster, 0:00:23.200 --> 0:00:26.600 co host of Tom and Jeff Batch batman Jeff has 0:00:26.640 --> 0:00:31.760 cool friends um and and and stand up comedian Jeff. 0:00:32.360 --> 0:00:34.720 This is part three of our series on on Zar 0:00:34.840 --> 0:00:37.440 Nicholas the second. How are you holding up great? I'm 0:00:37.479 --> 0:00:41.720 feeling good. Uh well, I'm ready to talk. Man. This guy, this, 0:00:41.720 --> 0:00:46.000 this fucking guys, fucking rupe, this fucking do love that. 0:00:46.120 --> 0:00:50.720 Like that's the like before this, I think they're like 0:00:50.760 --> 0:00:52.800 talking about Philippe, who has his you know, as we 0:00:52.800 --> 0:00:56.760 talked about last time, his his first mystic con man 0:00:56.800 --> 0:00:59.320 who got into the family and then rescuting. There's like 0:00:59.360 --> 0:01:03.760 this media image of resputant. Is this like supernaturally charming, 0:01:04.240 --> 0:01:10.000 like incredible, uh mysterious sort of like um figure who's 0:01:10.080 --> 0:01:13.080 just like in humanly charismatic and like No, the truth 0:01:13.160 --> 0:01:15.480 is that like literally any con man could have won 0:01:15.480 --> 0:01:18.560 one over on these people. They were really stupid. It's 0:01:18.560 --> 0:01:21.319 so much that people it's almost like it's like there 0:01:21.360 --> 0:01:24.000 there's a punch card for what con Man is going 0:01:24.080 --> 0:01:26.560 to be in charge at the time. It's like the 0:01:26.560 --> 0:01:30.920 morning Ralph Mornan Sam situation. Yeah, yeah, it's it's just 0:01:31.000 --> 0:01:34.520 so funny. Um and yeah, this is this is it's 0:01:34.520 --> 0:01:36.680 important to note that that, like that's kind of what 0:01:36.760 --> 0:01:40.080 you get with monarchy, right, Like that's the situation where 0:01:40.080 --> 0:01:44.880 if your thing is ultimate power is invested in a dude, 0:01:44.920 --> 0:01:47.120 Like a decent number of those dudes are going to 0:01:47.160 --> 0:01:48.960 be the kind of people who would respond to a 0:01:49.040 --> 0:01:52.760 Nigerian prince email scam like yeah, like I don't know 0:01:52.800 --> 0:01:55.400 if you like, I think we all have dumb relatives. 0:01:55.760 --> 0:02:00.520 So the idea that that like inherited divinity in anyway 0:02:00.760 --> 0:02:04.000 or inherited power or intellect or what, that's just the 0:02:04.120 --> 0:02:07.520 dumbest Like if if fucking Nicholas the second had been 0:02:07.560 --> 0:02:10.600 alive and the Tsar of all Russia is today, all 0:02:10.639 --> 0:02:13.600 of Russia would be owned by a Macadonian seventeen year 0:02:13.639 --> 0:02:17.239 old who had like managed to fish his email if something, Yeah, 0:02:17.960 --> 0:02:20.919 it would be it would be like Exxon would own 0:02:21.840 --> 0:02:23.760 Russia if that were the case, Yeah, it would be. 0:02:24.400 --> 0:02:26.320 Someone would have gotten to him. Like I can just 0:02:26.400 --> 0:02:29.680 imagine l Ron Hubbard sliding into the Tsars court and 0:02:29.720 --> 0:02:33.560 just complete control in like seven hours. It would have 0:02:33.560 --> 0:02:36.920 been carved up like like nineteenth century after it would 0:02:36.919 --> 0:02:41.120 have just been like just absolutely colonized and and and colonized, 0:02:41.160 --> 0:02:43.639 with like Nikki still on the throne, smiling all day 0:02:43.680 --> 0:02:46.799 about like, oh, my friends from xon Mobil are here. 0:02:47.120 --> 0:02:51.000 Look at my magic friends from x On Mobile. They 0:02:51.040 --> 0:02:54.760 can they can pull their fingers off, you see. Look 0:02:54.800 --> 0:02:56.960 at that they are doing magic. Look at that people's 0:02:57.040 --> 0:03:02.399 quarter from behind my ear. So as we start this episode, 0:03:02.400 --> 0:03:05.919 the situation with Japan is continuing to spiral out of control. 0:03:06.240 --> 0:03:09.079 In nineteen o two, Japan had signed a defensive pact 0:03:09.120 --> 0:03:12.160 with Great Britain. Um in, Nikki's English cousins had forced 0:03:12.240 --> 0:03:15.000 him to withdraw from man Chariot. Now, obviously he was 0:03:15.040 --> 0:03:19.200 not going to do this, um, but his minister's got 0:03:19.320 --> 0:03:21.960 him to at least degree for it, to agree with 0:03:22.000 --> 0:03:24.960 it for a while. Um. And you know, they keep 0:03:25.000 --> 0:03:26.880 trying to talk him out of this, saying like, hey, 0:03:27.120 --> 0:03:29.960 like taking over Tibet maybe not a great idea, probably 0:03:30.000 --> 0:03:32.400 not going to work all that well. Um. But Nicholas 0:03:32.400 --> 0:03:35.040 doesn't really spend a lot of time around his advisors. 0:03:35.080 --> 0:03:39.360 He prefers the company of Bezobrazov and his cousin the Kaiser, who, 0:03:39.400 --> 0:03:42.080 as we talked about last time, I think Um had 0:03:42.320 --> 0:03:46.000 started calling himself Admiral of the Atlantic and calling Nicky 0:03:46.080 --> 0:03:49.840 Admiral of the Pacific, right man. Yeah, it's like giving 0:03:49.880 --> 0:03:53.400 yourself your own nickname when you go to college. Yeah, yeah, 0:03:53.440 --> 0:03:56.160 it's it's it's so sad, like because the and it's 0:03:56.200 --> 0:03:58.960 sad because the Kaiser gives them both this nickname, and 0:03:59.040 --> 0:04:01.920 Nikki makes fun of the Kaiser, and then Nikki starts 0:04:02.000 --> 0:04:05.560 using the nickname completely and ironically. Um, He's like, well, 0:04:05.600 --> 0:04:07.400 you know, it is a cool nickname. I'm not going 0:04:08.400 --> 0:04:12.840 he's good at nicknames. He may be duvrous, but I 0:04:12.920 --> 0:04:15.120 got to say this nickname it fun. Look at this 0:04:15.240 --> 0:04:18.040 idiot coming up with nicknames. I'm going to steal though. 0:04:18.600 --> 0:04:21.919 Absolutely mine is my nickname now, so Um one of 0:04:21.920 --> 0:04:24.279 his ministers, because this is this is like a source 0:04:24.320 --> 0:04:28.080 of incredible frustration for these these educated and like august 0:04:28.160 --> 0:04:30.600 ministers and nobles and whatnot who are trying to like 0:04:31.080 --> 0:04:33.880 run the empire around him. That he's listening, He's given 0:04:33.920 --> 0:04:36.800 this Yeah, yeah, it's kind of a theme. It's just 0:04:36.880 --> 0:04:41.880 all these like well read intellectuals with experience in geopolitical 0:04:41.920 --> 0:04:44.760 theory are just like, what the funk are you doing? Man? 0:04:45.560 --> 0:04:47.800 And one of his ministers, again named Leave, who was 0:04:47.839 --> 0:04:51.159 again a raging anti semite um but a much smarter 0:04:51.240 --> 0:04:54.240 person than the Czar, explains the Czar's way of thinking 0:04:54.279 --> 0:04:56.640 here Um in a manner that I think is really 0:04:56.680 --> 0:04:59.760 relevant today. That is, trust of ministers is common to 0:04:59.760 --> 0:05:03.000 all sovereigns. Starting with Alexander. The first autocrats listened to 0:05:03.080 --> 0:05:05.760 their ministers outwardly agree with them, but always turned to 0:05:05.800 --> 0:05:08.880 outsiders who appeal to their hearts and inspire suspicion of 0:05:08.920 --> 0:05:12.719 their ministers, accusing them of encroaching on autocratic law. Like 0:05:12.800 --> 0:05:14.920 we've seen that, right, Like we've all been through that 0:05:15.040 --> 0:05:21.080 here right question. Yeah, my cool friends don't actually question me. 0:05:21.120 --> 0:05:24.159 They think I'm cool. Yeah. I brought my wife's boyfriend 0:05:24.200 --> 0:05:26.440 in and he said we should try this, or like, 0:05:26.640 --> 0:05:28.760 you know, there's this guy, this lawyer that I was 0:05:28.839 --> 0:05:30.880 friends with when I was younger, Like, let's have him 0:05:31.480 --> 0:05:33.400 make our policy here. Like we all lived through a 0:05:33.480 --> 0:05:35.560 version of this with Trump, and it's just like to 0:05:35.680 --> 0:05:39.120 the nth degree with Nikki, because there's absolutely no checks 0:05:39.120 --> 0:05:42.680 on his behavior. Um. So they kind of settle into 0:05:42.680 --> 0:05:45.040 this pattern for a while Russia for the next year 0:05:45.080 --> 0:05:47.520 and a half or so, where Bezo Brazof will like 0:05:47.720 --> 0:05:50.400 escalate in some wild way. He'll provoke the Japanese or 0:05:50.400 --> 0:05:54.400 he'll make a move on on on Chinese occupied territory, um, 0:05:54.560 --> 0:05:57.680 and there will be like some big war panic, and 0:05:57.839 --> 0:06:00.680 Nikki will back off at the last moment and like 0:06:00.720 --> 0:06:03.280 pull his troops back because he doesn't really want a war, 0:06:03.600 --> 0:06:05.839 Like he talks this big game about like wanting to 0:06:05.839 --> 0:06:09.080 show Japan what for, but he's also like there's a 0:06:09.120 --> 0:06:11.520 part of him that's reasonable enough to know that, like, well, 0:06:11.560 --> 0:06:14.400 if you are the absolute sovereign and you lose a war, 0:06:14.560 --> 0:06:18.320 that doesn't that that can be bad, you know, asked 0:06:18.360 --> 0:06:25.400 Japan exactly, asked Japan a minute after this. It's it's 0:06:25.400 --> 0:06:29.039 funny too, because we all know this guy, the guy 0:06:29.080 --> 0:06:32.080 that's like talking shit at the bar and then as 0:06:32.080 --> 0:06:34.240 soon as somebody's like, all right, well let's go, and 0:06:34.240 --> 0:06:38.200 then they're like yeah, and and fucking Nikki is that 0:06:38.240 --> 0:06:40.400 guy because he doesn't really want to fight. Bezo Brasov 0:06:40.520 --> 0:06:42.320 is the guy who like does that and also like 0:06:42.440 --> 0:06:45.200 he'll throw down. He's not good at it, like he 0:06:45.240 --> 0:06:47.560 can't throw a punch to save his life. He's way 0:06:47.560 --> 0:06:49.920 too drunk to be starting ship. But he will throw 0:06:49.960 --> 0:06:52.520 that punch if you know, going to be starting somebuddy 0:06:52.520 --> 0:06:56.200 will back him up, um so nikki like for a 0:06:56.240 --> 0:06:58.760 little while, like there, his ministers are able to get 0:06:58.839 --> 0:07:01.039 him to pull back, get him to pull back, um, 0:07:01.120 --> 0:07:03.040 and then he'll poke at them or Bezo Brazof will 0:07:03.040 --> 0:07:04.720 poke at them again. And you know this kind of 0:07:05.040 --> 0:07:08.120 happens a couple of times. Um And after a while 0:07:08.160 --> 0:07:10.760 the Japanese get really tired of this and they give 0:07:10.840 --> 0:07:13.960 they present these are with an incredible offer, like this 0:07:14.040 --> 0:07:17.120 is actually really quite and again I say generous. They're 0:07:17.120 --> 0:07:20.280 offering someone else's land. But like they're like, hey, Czar, 0:07:20.840 --> 0:07:22.680 I don't want to deal with this like constant like 0:07:22.880 --> 0:07:25.160 dick measuring game that year is how about you get 0:07:25.160 --> 0:07:28.880 all of Mancharia that's yours, Russia gets all of Mancharia, 0:07:29.080 --> 0:07:32.720 we get Korea. How about that? Which I'm the czar. 0:07:33.160 --> 0:07:35.160 I don't have to fight a war. Really, I could 0:07:35.240 --> 0:07:38.760 just take this huge, just chunk of land longer than larger, 0:07:38.800 --> 0:07:41.200 I think than any country in Western Europe that I 0:07:41.240 --> 0:07:43.640 get to just add to Russia for free seems like 0:07:43.640 --> 0:07:48.800 a great deal for me. These are right, Nikki says no. Uh, 0:07:49.000 --> 0:07:51.520 Nikki's like, well, yeah, sure, that would wipe out the 0:07:51.560 --> 0:07:53.880 stain of defeating Crimea and make me maybe the greatest 0:07:53.920 --> 0:07:56.560 expansion It's star of the last century. Probably would have 0:07:56.600 --> 0:07:59.120 distracted from all my domestic failures. But that means I 0:07:59.120 --> 0:08:03.080 don't get Korea too when I really want Korea. Because 0:08:03.080 --> 0:08:09.320 I can't get he wants to collect them all. Yeah, yeah, 0:08:09.640 --> 0:08:12.200 he wants like those cops who got fired for trying 0:08:12.240 --> 0:08:17.840 to get that pokemon. You know who among us hasn't 0:08:17.960 --> 0:08:21.560 ignored our civic duty in order to collect the snore life? Yeah, 0:08:21.560 --> 0:08:23.360 I mean it's we. We all have that friend who like, 0:08:23.560 --> 0:08:25.640 wasn't able to make rent one month because he bought 0:08:25.640 --> 0:08:27.760 too many fucking um what are those what are those 0:08:27.920 --> 0:08:31.160 nerd bobblehead type things called because he bought too many 0:08:31.200 --> 0:08:33.760 funco Are you just looking behind me and looking for 0:08:33.800 --> 0:08:37.280 something to make fun of. I mean, it's fine when 0:08:37.280 --> 0:08:39.560 it's a funko pop, but because he's the Czar of 0:08:39.600 --> 0:08:43.240 all Russias, his funco pops are like entire nations of 0:08:43.280 --> 0:08:48.720 millions of people in in a it's it's like entire 0:08:49.080 --> 0:08:51.960 ethnic groups that that he wants to collect and put 0:08:51.960 --> 0:08:56.000 in his little Russia box and probably racially discriminate against 0:08:56.520 --> 0:08:59.800 um because he is the guy that he is. So 0:08:59.840 --> 0:09:03.000 he he says no to Japan's again very generous offer 0:09:03.080 --> 0:09:06.680 with other people's territory um, and then he doesn't leave Mancheria. 0:09:06.760 --> 0:09:08.400 But so he doesn't agree to this, and he also 0:09:08.520 --> 0:09:11.560 stays in Mancheria, which is kind of saying to Japan, 0:09:11.880 --> 0:09:15.040 we're gonna try to invade Korea, Like we're gonna we're 0:09:15.040 --> 0:09:17.280 gonna take Korea from you, right, Like, that's what you're saying. 0:09:17.320 --> 0:09:19.559 If you're like, no, I don't want you to give 0:09:19.600 --> 0:09:21.800 me Mancheria, but I'm not gonna leave, you're saying, well, 0:09:21.840 --> 0:09:24.080 I'm gonna I'm gonna funk with your ships some more. Right. 0:09:24.160 --> 0:09:27.160 That's that's exactly what he's saying. That's as good as 0:09:27.200 --> 0:09:30.920 an act of war, really if you if you're not unreasonable, 0:09:31.240 --> 0:09:36.320 and Japan takes it this way. Um. Simon Montfio writes, quote, 0:09:36.679 --> 0:09:39.520 Bezobrazov had taught the emperor that treaties could be broken, 0:09:39.559 --> 0:09:42.559 and Nicholas was convinced that Russia could defeat those macaques. 0:09:43.280 --> 0:09:46.880 He's calling them monkeys because Japan was a barbarian country, 0:09:47.120 --> 0:09:50.040 and cool Potkin told Nicholas that the Japanese army, who's 0:09:50.080 --> 0:09:52.360 one of his military advisors, that the Japanese army was 0:09:52.400 --> 0:09:54.600 a colossal joke, but he did not want a war. 0:09:54.920 --> 0:09:57.600 The Emperor blithely ordered the viceroy, I don't want war 0:09:57.640 --> 0:09:59.880 between Russia and Japan and will not permit this war. 0:10:00.200 --> 0:10:03.040 Take all measures so that there is no war. Japan 0:10:03.080 --> 0:10:05.079 made for their offers to Russia for a compromise, but 0:10:05.160 --> 0:10:07.880 wondered if the inconsistence z are was capable of negotiating 0:10:07.880 --> 0:10:10.640 a treaty yet alone honoring it. So he gets every 0:10:10.720 --> 0:10:13.400 chance in the world to make this work right. I 0:10:13.440 --> 0:10:17.520 think it's interesting to note that we are actually looking 0:10:17.559 --> 0:10:22.480 at two nations that have just really honestly westernized their 0:10:22.480 --> 0:10:26.239 militaries or and when I say westernized, I mean modernized. 0:10:26.679 --> 0:10:29.240 Let me let me rephrase it, because you know, Japan 0:10:29.280 --> 0:10:31.960 obviously had to make a big leap forward during the 0:10:32.040 --> 0:10:35.920 mid to lady nineteenth century as well. Um, and we 0:10:36.000 --> 0:10:40.920 know we talked about in previous episodes what Russia Russia 0:10:40.960 --> 0:10:43.679 has just gotten their military to be kind of in 0:10:44.000 --> 0:10:45.880 not really in line as we'll talk about when World 0:10:45.920 --> 0:10:48.080 War One hits, but they're closer to in line with 0:10:48.160 --> 0:10:51.200 like Germany and France, and so it's almost like they 0:10:51.280 --> 0:10:54.880 both got new toys. They're like, you know what, yeah, 0:10:55.559 --> 0:10:57.800 and that's that's a big thing. You know. Japan has 0:10:57.920 --> 0:11:02.920 just modernized and gotten their military kind of really rolling 0:11:02.960 --> 0:11:06.520 along at the same point that China is falling apart, 0:11:06.559 --> 0:11:08.920 which provides this opportunity for Japan to take a whole 0:11:08.960 --> 0:11:10.559 bunch of China and get a bunch of ship that 0:11:10.880 --> 0:11:15.840 being from an island they maybe didn't have access to before. Russia. 0:11:16.320 --> 0:11:19.960 It's a little bit like with the Japanese government, this 0:11:20.080 --> 0:11:23.480 is much more of like a kind of grim real politique, 0:11:23.480 --> 0:11:25.160 like we need to take as much as we can. 0:11:25.800 --> 0:11:29.120 Um there's this awareness that like the colonial powers, like 0:11:29.200 --> 0:11:31.720 they will do that to us, what they're doing to Africa, 0:11:31.800 --> 0:11:34.120 what they're doing to other parts of Asia, if we 0:11:34.240 --> 0:11:37.360 don't assert ourselves and get powerful, and the best way 0:11:37.360 --> 0:11:38.920 to do this to take enough land that we can 0:11:39.040 --> 0:11:41.760 can continue to build up our military and not be 0:11:41.800 --> 0:11:43.319 able to be fucked with by them. Right, there's a 0:11:43.400 --> 0:11:47.079 lot of it's a lot harsher of an understanding with Russia. 0:11:47.400 --> 0:11:49.760 Nikki's this mix of like he's got these new toys 0:11:49.800 --> 0:11:52.240 he does want to play with and his he he 0:11:52.320 --> 0:11:54.240 has people talking to about how easy it will be 0:11:54.280 --> 0:11:56.199 to be Japan and an easy victory will deal with 0:11:56.240 --> 0:11:59.840 all these domestic troubles. But he's also he's like re 0:12:00.000 --> 0:12:03.120 sitable enough to know that he probably would actually be 0:12:03.160 --> 0:12:04.800 a bad idea to go to war. And he has 0:12:04.840 --> 0:12:07.280 a lot of ministers like into including like wit and 0:12:07.280 --> 0:12:11.000 the other kind of the intelligent ministers he has saying like, dude, 0:12:11.000 --> 0:12:13.440 you're hanging on by a thread right now, Like people 0:12:13.440 --> 0:12:16.320 are not happy this is that there's there's riots and 0:12:16.360 --> 0:12:19.360 ship all over the country. Um, what we don't want 0:12:19.360 --> 0:12:21.120 now as a war because it's probably not going to 0:12:21.200 --> 0:12:23.000 go great. And so there's this push and pull for 0:12:23.040 --> 0:12:25.480 a while. And for a while Nikki's kind of in 0:12:25.520 --> 0:12:29.960 the middle of those sides. Um, but he eventually kind 0:12:29.960 --> 0:12:32.280 of sides with the folks who start telling him and 0:12:32.280 --> 0:12:35.640 and and this includes pleave his anti Semite minister buddy 0:12:35.679 --> 0:12:39.640 that a small victorious war might distract everybody, right, So 0:12:39.679 --> 0:12:42.800 he eventually lines up on that I just love the 0:12:42.800 --> 0:12:47.840 phrase anti Semite minister. But well that's he's got the 0:12:47.880 --> 0:12:50.800 minister buddies who are racist and the ones who are racist, 0:12:51.200 --> 0:12:54.080 but not in terms of their policy, because every they're 0:12:54.120 --> 0:12:56.600 all racist. Yeah, Like the best guy in this story, 0:12:56.679 --> 0:12:59.000 that's far is his attitude is like, well, if you 0:12:59.040 --> 0:13:00.920 can't drown all the was, I guess they should have 0:13:00.920 --> 0:13:07.120 civil rights. Subversive statement, I guess now. On New Year's Day, 0:13:07.200 --> 0:13:10.160 n four, the Emperor of all the Russia's decides to 0:13:10.200 --> 0:13:13.719 make an ultimatum to Japan. He tells the Japanese ambassador 0:13:13.840 --> 0:13:15.800 Russia was not just a country, but a part of 0:13:15.800 --> 0:13:18.360 the world. In order to avoid a war, it was 0:13:18.400 --> 0:13:20.880 better not to try her patients or it could end badly. 0:13:21.400 --> 0:13:25.679 On the twenty four January, Japan breaks off diplomatic relations. 0:13:25.720 --> 0:13:29.080 So after like this back and forth, he issues basically 0:13:29.120 --> 0:13:31.880 like shut the funk up, let me do whatever it 0:13:31.960 --> 0:13:34.480 is I'm going to do, and if you talk to 0:13:34.520 --> 0:13:37.960 me again, like I might throw hands. That that's kind 0:13:37.960 --> 0:13:41.160 of what he's don't even yeah, don't even fucking sucks me. 0:13:41.720 --> 0:13:46.199 Don't even talk to me, stugging talks to me. If 0:13:46.360 --> 0:13:49.880 swhere to God, if you fucking talk to me once 0:13:50.160 --> 0:13:54.079 it's over and to continue our bar ANALYSI drunken Nicholas 0:13:54.200 --> 0:13:56.920 slurs that out to the Japanese, turns around to grab 0:13:56.960 --> 0:13:59.800 another drink from the bar, and while his back is turned, 0:13:59.840 --> 0:14:01.160 they hit him in the back of the head with 0:14:01.200 --> 0:14:04.560 a bottle of Schlitz, like we've all been there or whatever. 0:14:05.120 --> 0:14:07.439 Um they fuck him up. The next day, while the 0:14:07.480 --> 0:14:10.800 Czar is out watching at the theater watching a play, 0:14:11.080 --> 0:14:14.040 the Japanese fleet attacks Port Arthur, which you know Russia 0:14:14.040 --> 0:14:17.440 had taken a little bit earlier, and they do serious damage, 0:14:17.520 --> 0:14:20.720 like wipe out a significant chunk of his Asian fleet. 0:14:20.760 --> 0:14:23.280 I would add second worst thing to happen in a 0:14:23.360 --> 0:14:29.520 theater to a ruler. Oh man, there was a great 0:14:29.600 --> 0:14:31.480 this Halloween. I think I haven't said this on the show. 0:14:31.560 --> 0:14:33.960 This Halloween, we were out taking some friends kids of 0:14:34.040 --> 0:14:35.920 mine trick or treating and as we were like walking 0:14:35.920 --> 0:14:38.080 back to the car, there was just this dude dressed 0:14:38.160 --> 0:14:40.280 up as a dead Lincoln sitting in a chair in 0:14:40.320 --> 0:14:42.120 front of his house with a bucket of candy like 0:14:42.520 --> 0:14:45.760 up stock straight looked like a statue almost, And one 0:14:45.760 --> 0:14:48.880 of my friends asked him, hey, how was the play, 0:14:48.920 --> 0:14:51.840 and he without missing a beat, responded, I left early. 0:14:52.720 --> 0:14:54.760 I gotta be honest with you, Like he probably had 0:14:54.800 --> 0:14:57.120 like a list of way he was ready to say 0:14:58.200 --> 0:15:02.720 new New Dead Lincoln feature eight realistic words sounds. So 0:15:03.000 --> 0:15:05.480 the Russo Japanese War kicks off from this, right, Japan 0:15:05.520 --> 0:15:09.240 attacks at Port Arthur. The Russians are very angry and 0:15:09.360 --> 0:15:11.840 they start fighting. There's this whole big series of battles, 0:15:11.880 --> 0:15:15.640 you know, it's a war war. Stuff occurs um and 0:15:15.680 --> 0:15:18.520 on the ground there's this you know, land warfare that's 0:15:18.560 --> 0:15:22.000 largely happening in in Manchuria between like these couple hundred 0:15:22.000 --> 0:15:25.280 thousand troops that Russia has there and the Japanese Expeditionary 0:15:25.360 --> 0:15:29.840 Force and the Russians do okay here they lose basically 0:15:29.920 --> 0:15:33.920 every big battle, but Japan often loses more men in 0:15:33.960 --> 0:15:36.720 the battle, so like they're kind of it's like pyric 0:15:36.800 --> 0:15:39.360 victories for the Japanese where they're like, yeah, we keep 0:15:39.360 --> 0:15:41.600 winning these battles, but funk, there's a lot of Russians 0:15:41.680 --> 0:15:44.080 and like, we can't keep this up for a while. 0:15:45.160 --> 0:15:48.920 That is the story of they there's a lot of 0:15:49.000 --> 0:15:52.960 Russian Japan has the same experience everyone else does fighting Russia, 0:15:53.000 --> 0:15:55.480 which is Jesus Christ. There's no end of these people. 0:15:56.320 --> 0:16:00.320 I mean, think about the land differences, maybe like oh, 0:16:00.360 --> 0:16:03.720 so we're like what we're like the like the Moscow 0:16:03.840 --> 0:16:08.720 suburbs are our entire island, you know, there's so many 0:16:08.760 --> 0:16:13.000 of Yeah, yeah, I think we need the entire island 0:16:13.000 --> 0:16:17.760 of just to do anything to um And so this this, 0:16:18.120 --> 0:16:21.160 you know, on land, the Russians kind of duke it 0:16:21.200 --> 0:16:23.600 out with the Japanese until the Japanese are, you know, 0:16:23.680 --> 0:16:26.600 after repeatedly winning, kind of on the verge of collapse 0:16:26.640 --> 0:16:29.640 by some sources. So it's going okay on the land. 0:16:29.760 --> 0:16:31.960 It's not going great obviously, because it never does go 0:16:32.040 --> 0:16:37.880 great for Russia either, but like they win awards sustainable situation, 0:16:38.160 --> 0:16:40.840 it's not in the navy. So Japan starts the war 0:16:40.920 --> 0:16:44.080 by wiping out one of three Russian fleets, the Pacific Fleet, 0:16:44.640 --> 0:16:46.840 And you know, Nikki has a choice here. One of 0:16:46.880 --> 0:16:49.119 them would be like, well, I could kind of potentially 0:16:49.160 --> 0:16:51.720 give up Port Arthur, or at least give up relieving 0:16:51.720 --> 0:16:54.200 it from the sea. I could not try to funk 0:16:54.240 --> 0:16:56.720 with the in the ocean anymore because I don't need to. 0:16:56.880 --> 0:16:59.880 I'm directly connected by land to the battle space. You know, 0:17:00.240 --> 0:17:02.440 I can just throw a ship lord more dudes in 0:17:02.480 --> 0:17:05.800 Demandcharia and probably eke out if not like a win, 0:17:06.119 --> 0:17:08.879 you know, a negotiated settlement that gives me what I 0:17:08.880 --> 0:17:11.040 could have gotten without fighting a war anyway. But like 0:17:11.680 --> 0:17:14.000 looks good on paper, you know, he has kind of 0:17:14.040 --> 0:17:18.200 that option. But he's you know, Russia's pride as its navy. 0:17:18.400 --> 0:17:21.280 And it's not Russia's pride, it's it's the Czar's pride. 0:17:21.560 --> 0:17:23.439 And it's this way with all of these guys in 0:17:23.480 --> 0:17:26.760 this same period. Kaiser Wilhelm is like helping to make 0:17:26.800 --> 0:17:30.040 World War One b a thing by repeatedly like tweaking 0:17:30.080 --> 0:17:32.600 the British by building up the German fleet, because that's 0:17:32.600 --> 0:17:34.320 the thing the British don't want to see, is the 0:17:34.359 --> 0:17:36.600 Germany have a fleet that can rival the British fleet, 0:17:36.640 --> 0:17:40.200 because Germany already has an army that Britain can't handle. Um, 0:17:40.240 --> 0:17:43.000 But the Britain doesn't like when anybody has They don't 0:17:43.040 --> 0:17:45.040 like when anybody has a navy, No, they sure don't. 0:17:45.560 --> 0:17:53.320 I don't believe are the only ones with boats a reason. 0:17:54.600 --> 0:17:57.719 So the Kaiser and it's like it's this whole thing 0:17:57.760 --> 0:18:01.439 of like it's like it's it's like warhammer for the Kaiser. 0:18:01.520 --> 0:18:03.480 Like he gets to he gets to get these little boats, 0:18:03.560 --> 0:18:06.680 these boats that he gets to have a say in designing, 0:18:06.720 --> 0:18:08.719 and like look at all the big guns and he 0:18:08.760 --> 0:18:12.240 gets to move them around on a map and sail 0:18:12.280 --> 0:18:14.199 around in his yacht and look at the boats that 0:18:14.240 --> 0:18:17.879 he owns and umunds it does sound dope, right, it 0:18:17.880 --> 0:18:20.240 sounds pretty sick. And it's like that with the Kaiser too. 0:18:20.400 --> 0:18:24.280 And and Russia, you know, has a has a traditionally 0:18:24.320 --> 0:18:28.159 pretty powerful navy. Their best fleet is their Baltic fleet though, right, 0:18:28.200 --> 0:18:30.680 because that's like that's home shores, right, that's what's gonna 0:18:30.680 --> 0:18:34.440 be fucking with Turkey. Russia's big enemy for forever is Turkey. 0:18:34.560 --> 0:18:37.720 Um So they've got they lose their Pacific fleet to 0:18:37.720 --> 0:18:40.560 the Japanese with like out really getting to fire much 0:18:40.600 --> 0:18:43.600 of a shot. Um So, Nikki gets obsessed with the 0:18:43.640 --> 0:18:45.960 idea of getting revenge and with the idea of proving 0:18:46.040 --> 0:18:48.480 himself to be the Admiral of the Pacific. You can't 0:18:48.480 --> 0:18:50.320 be the Admiral of the Pacific if your fleet gets 0:18:50.320 --> 0:18:52.200 sunk and you don't do anything about it. So he 0:18:52.240 --> 0:18:55.119 takes this massive Baltic Fleet, the pride of the Russian 0:18:55.200 --> 0:18:58.000 Navy and the lynchpin of their territorial power, and he 0:18:58.040 --> 0:19:01.359 sends the whole thing to fight the Jackas fleet. Um, 0:19:01.400 --> 0:19:03.399 which takes like a year. Like it's not easy to 0:19:03.440 --> 0:19:05.800 get from the Baltic to the coast of China in 0:19:05.800 --> 0:19:08.879 this period. Yeah. Yeah, they're not flying on no, and 0:19:08.880 --> 0:19:11.360 they can't really they're not good at at boating at 0:19:11.359 --> 0:19:14.960 this point, you know, they're they're steaming slowly ahead there. Um, 0:19:15.040 --> 0:19:18.359 well they had a rough go. Yeah, it's exhausting. They 0:19:18.400 --> 0:19:21.080 accidentally murder some fishermen on the way that belonged to 0:19:21.119 --> 0:19:24.640 some European country or another. Um. Yeah, they get panicked 0:19:24.640 --> 0:19:28.120 and they think that it's a Japanese uh torpedo boat 0:19:28.200 --> 0:19:32.000 or whatever. Um. I mean that's yeah, really funny. Really, 0:19:32.280 --> 0:19:34.480 you know, we all agree that it's while those deaths 0:19:34.520 --> 0:19:37.800 are tragic, the historical context of the humor in that 0:19:37.880 --> 0:19:40.800 is it is pretty funny to be like a dude 0:19:40.800 --> 0:19:43.040 on a fishing boat and get get marked by the 0:19:43.240 --> 0:19:46.680 entire Russian Baltic Fleet. Um. Yeah, you're just like I'm 0:19:46.680 --> 0:19:50.280 out to catch up, you know. And and it's worth 0:19:50.320 --> 0:19:52.640 noting the Russian Baltic fleet will perform a lot better 0:19:52.680 --> 0:19:55.240 against these unarmed fishermen than they do against the Japanese 0:19:55.320 --> 0:20:00.080 Navy standard standard move for them. So while they're or 0:20:00.080 --> 0:20:03.440 to ring their way slowly to Asia. Um, and Russia 0:20:03.560 --> 0:20:06.400 is kind of having this very mixed, ugly ground war 0:20:06.800 --> 0:20:10.000 in Manchuria. Um, and you know the fact that there's 0:20:10.000 --> 0:20:12.159 a war, they start being more protests, they start being 0:20:12.160 --> 0:20:14.920 more riots, they start being more strikes among the workers. Well, 0:20:14.920 --> 0:20:19.400 all this is going on, the Czar's son, Alexei is born. Um, 0:20:19.440 --> 0:20:21.960 this is a cause for a lot of finally some 0:20:22.000 --> 0:20:25.879 good finally, some good news. I've got a handle on it. 0:20:26.080 --> 0:20:29.639 Now I have a boy. This couldn't go anywhere. But 0:20:29.760 --> 0:20:32.280 up as the empire is crumbling in tens of thousands 0:20:32.280 --> 0:20:34.560 of men are dying. He's like, good news, everybody, We're 0:20:34.560 --> 0:20:37.159 gonna be able to keep this thing going for another generation. 0:20:37.880 --> 0:20:41.200 Good news everywhere. One more Romanov for you all to 0:20:41.280 --> 0:20:45.240 deal with. So there's this big celebration, right, huge state 0:20:45.280 --> 0:20:48.280 celebration because now there's an heir to the throne. Um. 0:20:48.480 --> 0:20:51.800 But then shortly thereafter this are and his wife realized 0:20:51.800 --> 0:20:54.520 their boy has hemophilia. He's like, you know, the belly 0:20:54.560 --> 0:20:57.080 button thing when the thing falls out of it after 0:20:57.119 --> 0:21:00.240 you pull the baby out. Um. That the umbilical cord. Yeah, 0:21:00.240 --> 0:21:03.160 the babilical cord. His when they cut it, it doesn't 0:21:03.200 --> 0:21:06.200 stop bleeding, right, because he's hemophiliac. You know That's that's 0:21:06.240 --> 0:21:10.320 the whole thing. Um, you bleed more than his ideal um. 0:21:10.440 --> 0:21:14.960 And so there's this suddenly realization that like the Tsar's 0:21:15.080 --> 0:21:17.760 Air basically has a death sentence because like in this 0:21:17.920 --> 0:21:19.640 period of time, I think there's a bunch of things 0:21:19.680 --> 0:21:24.760 you can do. They really don't have medicine back then. Yeah, yeah, 0:21:25.440 --> 0:21:29.920 you have, you have opium, and you have spiritualists. Um, 0:21:29.960 --> 0:21:32.800 I mean you have you have conmon and you have 0:21:32.880 --> 0:21:36.600 doctors who are like three percent better than conman um. 0:21:36.640 --> 0:21:38.520 But there's nothing really to do about this, and pretty 0:21:38.600 --> 0:21:41.400 much everyone but the Czar and Czarina except like, oh ship, 0:21:41.480 --> 0:21:43.119 well he's not going to make it to twenty. Like 0:21:43.160 --> 0:21:47.119 this kid's not gonna last long. Um. Yeah, this kid's fucked. 0:21:47.160 --> 0:21:51.320 They cannot take that because at this point, she's kind 0:21:51.320 --> 0:21:53.760 of worn out. She's had five kids. They're not easy 0:21:53.800 --> 0:21:58.280 pregnancies for her. She's not as young anymore. Um, and 0:21:58.320 --> 0:22:01.320 she's like I can't have another child wild and because 0:22:01.320 --> 0:22:02.919 he does love his wife, the czar is not going 0:22:02.960 --> 0:22:04.159 to force her. You know, I think a lot of 0:22:04.200 --> 0:22:06.600 monarchs would have been like the funk you say, like 0:22:06.680 --> 0:22:08.520 you're we're going to roll these dice again. I don't 0:22:08.560 --> 0:22:12.199 care what happens. I'm sorry, what was that? I like 0:22:12.240 --> 0:22:13.760 how you're like, by the way, it's like it wasn't 0:22:13.760 --> 0:22:15.520 an easy pregnancy. I'm like, yeah, I think that's just 0:22:15.560 --> 0:22:22.120 because it was in nineteen what's four, um, nineteen o five? Yeah, 0:22:22.760 --> 0:22:26.840 and this, you know, so this is like horribly devastating 0:22:26.880 --> 0:22:29.320 for the Romanov family because it kind of means like 0:22:29.720 --> 0:22:31.760 we're going to have to hand over ruling to like 0:22:31.800 --> 0:22:33.679 one of our cousins or something like. This isn't going 0:22:33.720 --> 0:22:37.000 to keep going, and that means that's to the czar, 0:22:37.200 --> 0:22:41.000 even though there's like protests and uprisings and a an 0:22:41.000 --> 0:22:45.760 increasingly disastrous war. That's what makes Nikki feel like a failure. Yeah, 0:22:45.800 --> 0:22:50.199 because it's a it's a boy, but it's not you know, 0:22:50.720 --> 0:22:52.720 it's a boy who's not going to live long enough 0:22:52.760 --> 0:22:55.359 to continue making bad decisions that affect the lives of 0:22:55.400 --> 0:23:01.840 millions anyway. Um, Nicholas is while he's trying to deal 0:23:01.880 --> 0:23:03.560 with this and dealing with the fact that his wife 0:23:03.600 --> 0:23:06.560 is increasingly having breakdowns over the fact that her son 0:23:06.720 --> 0:23:09.040 is kind of constantly on the edge of death, which 0:23:09.280 --> 0:23:12.520 understandable reason to have a breakdown. Um, Russia is kind 0:23:12.520 --> 0:23:14.680 of breaking down because the war is going poorly. People 0:23:14.680 --> 0:23:18.439 are protesting, yeada, YadA, YadA. Nicholas reshuffles his generals, and 0:23:18.480 --> 0:23:20.560 his minister's basically does this thing of like, well, it 0:23:20.600 --> 0:23:22.399 has to be someone else's fault that none of this 0:23:22.520 --> 0:23:24.320 is going well, So I'm just going to kind of 0:23:24.400 --> 0:23:29.440 randomly fire and replace people until things start to work better. Um, 0:23:29.480 --> 0:23:33.280 the problem can't be with me. Uh yeah, how could 0:23:33.320 --> 0:23:36.520 it be? Yeah, and you're so adept. Nick. So one 0:23:36.560 --> 0:23:39.040 of the guys he brings on is this new minister Mursky, 0:23:39.040 --> 0:23:41.639 who points out like, hey, there's this campaign among liberals 0:23:41.920 --> 0:23:45.720 to create like a Congress, basically a constitutional representation for 0:23:45.760 --> 0:23:48.120 the people, you know, which folks have been lobbying for 0:23:48.119 --> 0:23:50.200 for a while. His grandpa was about to put one through, 0:23:50.520 --> 0:23:54.280 and Mursky's like, hey, this is really popular, and because 0:23:54.280 --> 0:23:56.560 it's really popular, if you do it, a lot of 0:23:56.600 --> 0:23:59.360 the people who are protesting and striking right now might 0:23:59.480 --> 0:24:02.359 stop and like you can focus on the other million 0:24:02.400 --> 0:24:05.520 problems you've created. Um and maybe if you don't do this, 0:24:05.600 --> 0:24:08.639 there's gonna be a revolution. And the Emperor Nicholas the 0:24:08.680 --> 0:24:11.760 second does not take this very well. His responses quote, 0:24:12.320 --> 0:24:15.240 you know, I don't hold autocracy for my own pleasure. 0:24:15.359 --> 0:24:18.200 I act in this sense only because it's necessary for Russia. 0:24:18.440 --> 0:24:21.000 I'll never agree to a representative form of government because 0:24:21.000 --> 0:24:23.560 I consider it harmful to the people whom God has 0:24:23.680 --> 0:24:30.000 entrusted to me. So, hearing this, Minsky's responses, everything has failed. 0:24:30.200 --> 0:24:34.480 Let us build jails, of course. Yeah, we're gonna have 0:24:34.560 --> 0:24:36.160 to throw a lot of people in prison, or they're 0:24:36.160 --> 0:24:39.639 gonna murder us. So Minsky at least seems to have 0:24:39.680 --> 0:24:42.520 the lay of the land reasonably well. On Sunday, January 0:24:42.600 --> 0:24:45.520 nine is the Russian army launch is a huge offensive 0:24:45.520 --> 0:24:48.920 in Mancharia. A protest march of thousands of workers swarms 0:24:48.960 --> 0:24:52.280 towards the palace where Nicholas and his family live. Troops 0:24:52.320 --> 0:24:55.760 at the palace open fire and charge the protesters on horseback, 0:24:56.000 --> 0:24:58.600 and they kill more than a thousand people. This is 0:24:58.640 --> 0:25:01.000 not like a kin states or a deal. We're like 0:25:01.359 --> 0:25:04.199 a couple of guys panic and there's you know, a 0:25:04.200 --> 0:25:07.399 handful of people die and like everybody like stars in shock. 0:25:07.760 --> 0:25:11.480 This is like ranks of men firing in mass into 0:25:11.480 --> 0:25:14.480 a crowd and then running them down on horseback with sabers. 0:25:14.800 --> 0:25:17.560 Classic not to whitewash kin state, but this is like 0:25:17.600 --> 0:25:21.720 three hundred or so of them. And at the same time, Um, 0:25:21.760 --> 0:25:23.959 I mean, I'm from Boston where we had a bombing 0:25:23.960 --> 0:25:26.520 where like three people died, and we're like, this is 0:25:26.560 --> 0:25:29.480 the worst thing that has ever happened. So I understood 0:25:29.560 --> 0:25:32.560 in Russia happens on a different scale. And on this 0:25:32.640 --> 0:25:35.720 day when his troops kill a thousand civilians in order 0:25:35.760 --> 0:25:39.840 to defend his regime from protest, Nicholas writes this in 0:25:39.880 --> 0:25:43.680 his diary, A terrible day, Lord, how painful and sad. 0:25:44.000 --> 0:25:47.239 Mama arrived from town, lunched with everyone, went for a 0:25:47.240 --> 0:25:52.320 walk with Misha. Mama stayed the night. Big, big, big 0:25:52.320 --> 0:25:56.920 deal for you, hey, for you. Thousand people died, Mama came. 0:25:57.280 --> 0:26:01.720 What a day? I think mostly a lot on your maybe, yeah, 0:26:02.080 --> 0:26:05.919 that's the main thing. Um, It's very funny, how like 0:26:06.119 --> 0:26:10.080 completely sociopathic. These people are too, like the suff suffering 0:26:10.080 --> 0:26:13.119 and death of their subjects on on a staggering scale. 0:26:13.640 --> 0:26:17.120 But you know who did care their subjects and doesn't 0:26:17.240 --> 0:26:21.040 ignore their horrible demises. I'm gonna guess it's your sponsor's right. 0:26:21.200 --> 0:26:24.800 That's right when you die. Our sponsors, every one of 0:26:24.840 --> 0:26:28.480 them genuinely sad, and they'll write about it in their diaries, 0:26:28.680 --> 0:26:31.600 and they've predicted those deaths. They have they know exactly 0:26:31.600 --> 0:26:33.879 when you're going to die. So maybe you know on 0:26:33.920 --> 0:26:37.640 this ad they'll tell you the exact moment that you'll expire. 0:26:43.560 --> 0:26:50.600 Ah really present you really? Um? So, Jeff, We're we're 0:26:50.640 --> 0:26:53.080 we're we're in a we're in a dicey time for 0:26:53.080 --> 0:26:56.560 for the Romanov dynasty as this is happening, um or 0:26:56.600 --> 0:26:58.840 if not that long after this is happening, and like 0:26:59.320 --> 0:27:02.560 well cup of months. So May of that year, May fourteen, 0:27:02.720 --> 0:27:07.080 the Baltic Fleet reaches uh, the war zone right, um 0:27:07.160 --> 0:27:10.160 reaches Southeast Asia broadly, right, you know, it's a big area. 0:27:10.200 --> 0:27:13.280 They're kind of trying to get to Port Arthur, um 0:27:13.359 --> 0:27:15.520 and they're steaming around all these you know, hugging the 0:27:15.520 --> 0:27:19.040 coast and while they're sort of getting into the battle space, 0:27:19.119 --> 0:27:23.640 the Japanese admiral, a guy named Togo Um spots them 0:27:23.640 --> 0:27:27.040 ahead of time and is smarter than anybody who has 0:27:27.040 --> 0:27:29.440 ever worked for the Czar. Um. Togo is very good 0:27:29.440 --> 0:27:32.080 at what he does. He actually believes he's the reincarnation 0:27:32.240 --> 0:27:36.600 of Horatio Nelson Um, the British admiral who wanted whatever 0:27:36.640 --> 0:27:39.399 that fucking famous sea battle. Um. He's a bit of 0:27:39.400 --> 0:27:41.840 a loon, but he's really good at running a navy. 0:27:41.880 --> 0:27:45.439 And he spots the Russian Navy and he sets his 0:27:45.480 --> 0:27:49.360 troops up in an ambush and one night, the supposedly 0:27:49.400 --> 0:27:52.600 the reason this all happens is that like some dude 0:27:52.720 --> 0:27:56.119 on a medical ship in the Russian fleet forgets to 0:27:56.119 --> 0:27:59.399 close a window and it allows the Japanese fleet to 0:27:59.440 --> 0:28:02.359 spot them in the flow at night, Um, and the 0:28:02.440 --> 0:28:05.920 Japanese fleet ambushes the pride of the Russian Navy and 0:28:06.080 --> 0:28:09.159 wipes them out. Thirty ships sunk to the bottom of 0:28:09.200 --> 0:28:11.199 the sea, and like a day and a half or so, 0:28:11.359 --> 0:28:14.000 including the flagship of the Russian Navy, and they don't 0:28:14.000 --> 0:28:17.359 really lose anybody. It's like more than a thousand Russian 0:28:17.400 --> 0:28:20.000 sailors dead and like a hundred Japanese sailors. Dad or 0:28:20.040 --> 0:28:22.159 something like that it's like it is. It is a 0:28:22.520 --> 0:28:29.200 it is a terrible disaster. It goes into yeah, um 0:28:29.240 --> 0:28:31.600 it is. It goes as badly as it possibly could 0:28:31.640 --> 0:28:35.120 have done. Um, somebody called the match. Yeah yeah they 0:28:35.119 --> 0:28:37.720 are this is this is really like, um, I don't 0:28:37.720 --> 0:28:40.640 know what's the who's a boxer who killed somebody? Emil Griffith. 0:28:40.680 --> 0:28:44.480 This is an Emil Griffith situation. That's Togo. Um, he's 0:28:44.560 --> 0:28:49.200 he's just he's just permanently knocked the Baltic fleet unconscious. 0:28:49.520 --> 0:28:52.440 Um and they are never getting out. Yeah. Yeah, I 0:28:53.000 --> 0:28:55.480 have that equation of like that that like stone cold 0:28:55.520 --> 0:28:58.760 Steve Austin coming in, ravaging them and just leaving while 0:28:58.760 --> 0:29:00.960 he's laying on the ground. That's kind of what the 0:29:01.040 --> 0:29:05.840 Japanese fleet does. So this number one leads very quickly 0:29:05.880 --> 0:29:08.920 to the Russians capitulating. You know, they lose the Russo 0:29:09.000 --> 0:29:12.280 Japanese war. Um, and this is kind of the thing. 0:29:12.320 --> 0:29:15.560 They have now lost two thirds of their entire navy effectively, 0:29:18.000 --> 0:29:22.440 Daddie in my toye, Daddy, I've lost my bets and 0:29:22.480 --> 0:29:24.680 they can't like it's one of those things. Not only 0:29:24.760 --> 0:29:26.640 is this just the disaster like it would be for 0:29:26.680 --> 0:29:29.360 any country. But this is also like the first time 0:29:29.480 --> 0:29:33.640 that a major European power has lost a war, a 0:29:33.760 --> 0:29:37.080 modern war to people who are not white, um, and 0:29:37.640 --> 0:29:40.320 that is like that people start flipping out all over 0:29:40.360 --> 0:29:45.960 the damn world about this ship. Um. And this really 0:29:46.000 --> 0:29:48.480 pisses off everyone in Russia's piss The right wing is 0:29:48.480 --> 0:29:51.240 pissed because it's like us, we're the ones who lose 0:29:51.240 --> 0:29:54.160 a war to the Japanese UM, and the people who 0:29:54.160 --> 0:29:57.120 aren't right when are are pissed because like, how many 0:29:57.120 --> 0:29:59.000 of our guys did you get killed for no reason? 0:30:00.600 --> 0:30:02.680 I Like, the two different reasons are like we lost 0:30:02.680 --> 0:30:05.240 to them, and the other on the other side is like, wait, 0:30:05.280 --> 0:30:11.160 we didn't. My brother's dead. So more protests. Well, Russia, 0:30:11.400 --> 0:30:15.680 the battleship Timpkin mutinies in Odessa, which is goes on 0:30:15.720 --> 0:30:18.280 to be a pretty famous moment um. And Nicholas the 0:30:18.320 --> 0:30:20.920 second well, all this is going on, well the Timpkins mutinying, 0:30:20.960 --> 0:30:24.240 while large chunks of Russia are no longer under the 0:30:24.240 --> 0:30:26.680 control of the Russian state, Like that's the extent to 0:30:26.720 --> 0:30:30.560 which the government loses control. Nikki accepts an invitation from 0:30:30.560 --> 0:30:32.280 his cousin the Kaiser, to go hang out on their 0:30:32.360 --> 0:30:36.280 yachts together class. So like the Baltic and CAUCUSUS have 0:30:36.280 --> 0:30:39.840 have overthrown the government and like murdered local officials and 0:30:39.880 --> 0:30:44.040 are independent principal or independent republics right now. And Nikki's like, 0:30:44.400 --> 0:30:46.400 I need to get away from it all. I'm going 0:30:46.440 --> 0:30:48.720 to sail on a boat with my cousin. He's like, Hey, 0:30:48.720 --> 0:30:51.920 I'm gonna I'm gonna jet you guys. You got this? Yeah, 0:30:52.120 --> 0:30:55.760 this seems fine, right, Yeah, you got this. I mean 0:30:55.800 --> 0:30:59.520 to be honest, if I was one of his his ministers, like, yeah, 0:30:59.560 --> 0:31:02.320 get the get him the funk out of here. No. 0:31:02.520 --> 0:31:05.000 I think it's that this is the right move forever 0:31:05.160 --> 0:31:07.360 one is to have him be like I'm gonna I'm 0:31:07.360 --> 0:31:10.000 gonna get the I'm gonna get you. Why don't you 0:31:10.080 --> 0:31:12.800 take an extra couple of months, you know, just really 0:31:12.840 --> 0:31:14.920 clear your head. Yeah, why did you go to hang 0:31:14.920 --> 0:31:18.920 out with that dipshit cousin? So? Um Yeah, I'm gonna 0:31:18.960 --> 0:31:22.120 quote now from the Oxford University Press. In nineteen o five, 0:31:22.200 --> 0:31:24.680 there were three thousand, two hundred and twenty eight agrarian 0:31:24.720 --> 0:31:27.640 disorders that caused twenty eight million, eight hundred and seventy 0:31:27.640 --> 0:31:31.520 two thousand seven hundred and fifty nine roubles worth of damage. ROBERTA. 0:31:31.600 --> 0:31:34.240 Manning and her study of the nineteen o five Revolution stated, 0:31:34.480 --> 0:31:37.320 under these conditions of near total breakdown in government authority 0:31:37.360 --> 0:31:40.240 and paralysis of the government in elite, which temporarily lost 0:31:40.240 --> 0:31:43.200 faith in its ability to administer the nation, rural Russia 0:31:43.320 --> 0:31:45.560 rose up to join its urban partners in the greatest 0:31:45.600 --> 0:31:49.360 most destructive series of agrarian uprisings since the Pugachev Rebellion 0:31:49.400 --> 0:31:52.920 of the eighteenth century. So by the end of nineteen 0:31:52.920 --> 0:31:56.240 o five, there are thirteen thousand, nine hundred ninety five 0:31:56.280 --> 0:31:59.280 recorded strikes. There are riots, there are there are like 0:31:59.400 --> 0:32:02.520 thousands of assassinations over this period of time. Like they 0:32:02.520 --> 0:32:08.480 are massacring government officials by by the fucking football team's worth. Um, 0:32:08.560 --> 0:32:12.120 that seems egregious, right, I mean yeah, like I get 0:32:12.200 --> 0:32:13.800 I get it. But also at the same time, it's 0:32:13.800 --> 0:32:15.640 like I feel like a couple of guys got a 0:32:15.680 --> 0:32:17.760 lot caught off. Yeah, I mean it's pretty bad, Like 0:32:17.840 --> 0:32:21.640 it's really ugly, and it's ugly and because like not 0:32:21.680 --> 0:32:24.400 to take anything from like the ministers or from the 0:32:24.480 --> 0:32:26.560 terrorists who are in some of these are acts of 0:32:26.600 --> 0:32:28.560 were like just a guy will shoot this dude who 0:32:28.640 --> 0:32:31.160 was like a police commissioner who was like specifically like 0:32:31.320 --> 0:32:33.720 you did this crackdown, I'm gonna kill you. Some of 0:32:33.720 --> 0:32:35.840 them are like, we're going to set off eighty pounds 0:32:35.840 --> 0:32:38.640 of T and T in a crowded neighborhood to like 0:32:38.680 --> 0:32:42.920 take this guy out. You know. Um, it's a lot 0:32:42.920 --> 0:32:45.520 of it is really ugly. And part of why it's 0:32:45.560 --> 0:32:48.320 really ugly is these are kind of established that. I mean, 0:32:48.840 --> 0:32:52.120 he was his dad established back in the eighteen sixties 0:32:52.200 --> 0:32:56.200 when their grandpa was assassinated that like, well, whenever there's unrest, 0:32:56.240 --> 0:32:58.760 we kill people in huge numbers, and that's how we 0:32:58.800 --> 0:33:01.600 deal with unrest is man murder. And the czar has 0:33:01.600 --> 0:33:04.120 a thousand people killed, you know, at at the gates 0:33:04.120 --> 0:33:07.320 of his palace. Like that is the way the Russian 0:33:07.440 --> 0:33:10.480 state handles unrest. So when people rise up against the 0:33:10.520 --> 0:33:13.840 Russian state, where are the stakes? This is how you fight? 0:33:14.000 --> 0:33:16.600 You fight by killing huge numbers of people. I learned 0:33:16.640 --> 0:33:19.200 from watching you dad, you know, Like that's pretty bit's 0:33:19.240 --> 0:33:21.680 a pretty base answer too, And it's just like, I 0:33:21.720 --> 0:33:24.080 mean that's like the number one thing you go to. Yeah, 0:33:24.200 --> 0:33:27.920 this is what I guess this is how this works. Um. So, yeah, 0:33:27.960 --> 0:33:30.120 and the government's the first thing they always have to 0:33:30.200 --> 0:33:32.880 like throw out obviously, like every other government when there's 0:33:32.920 --> 0:33:35.959 you know, any kind of popular unrest and programs are happening. 0:33:35.960 --> 0:33:38.960 In this period, it's very messy time. So you've got 0:33:39.000 --> 0:33:41.480 obvious and some of those programs are like these these 0:33:41.560 --> 0:33:45.680 right wing groups, um, the Black Hundreds, which are like Czarists, 0:33:46.040 --> 0:33:47.520 we'll talk about them in a little bit. Some of 0:33:47.560 --> 0:33:49.440 them are happy are some of them are being done 0:33:49.440 --> 0:33:51.200 by like left wing groups, saying most of it is 0:33:51.240 --> 0:33:53.280 from the right, most of these programs. A lot of 0:33:53.280 --> 0:33:56.560 it though I probably the bulk of it isn't isn't specifically, 0:33:57.000 --> 0:34:00.640 it's just like it's reactions to the things that the 0:34:00.920 --> 0:34:02.920 that the left you're doing. So you'll have like a 0:34:03.000 --> 0:34:05.520 striker and uprising in Odessa, or you'll have a terrorist 0:34:05.600 --> 0:34:07.840 attack that kills this minister, and then people will blame 0:34:07.840 --> 0:34:09.360 it on the Jews and there will be a pagram 0:34:09.440 --> 0:34:12.280 and you know, like that's that's kind of the way 0:34:12.760 --> 0:34:15.920 this whole thing goes. It's a very messy period of time. UM. 0:34:16.040 --> 0:34:20.040 Russia does not have cops really like they have police, 0:34:20.160 --> 0:34:24.359 and they try to tamp down on unrest um. But 0:34:24.400 --> 0:34:26.480 they don't. There's not there's like one of them for 0:34:26.480 --> 0:34:29.239 every several thousand people. So whenever they really need to 0:34:29.280 --> 0:34:32.320 crack heads, it's the army. UM. But the army's mutinying 0:34:32.400 --> 0:34:34.600 all over because they've just lost this war, just like 0:34:34.640 --> 0:34:37.600 the navy. UM. So the only thing you can really 0:34:37.600 --> 0:34:40.200 get the army to crack down on is the Bolsheviks. Right. 0:34:40.520 --> 0:34:43.200 So when you have these left wing uprisings, these are 0:34:43.239 --> 0:34:45.960 can generally get military units and to fight them. But 0:34:46.000 --> 0:34:49.600 when you have these programs that are responses to these uprisings, 0:34:49.600 --> 0:34:52.440 in some cases you can't convince the army is not 0:34:52.480 --> 0:34:54.080 going to go crack down on them because the army 0:34:54.160 --> 0:34:56.640 is like, well, we're pretty racist too, and the cops 0:34:56.680 --> 0:34:59.200 are like actively participating in the pagram, so they're not 0:34:59.239 --> 0:35:04.280 going to do no. That part's cool. So Nicholas also 0:35:04.400 --> 0:35:07.560 comes to see that like, well, maybe these programs are 0:35:07.560 --> 0:35:09.799 a good thing because all of the people doing the 0:35:09.840 --> 0:35:14.239 revolutions are Jews, which is not true, um, but they are. 0:35:14.280 --> 0:35:16.399 There are a number of them are Jewish people because 0:35:16.440 --> 0:35:19.400 Jewish people are particularly oppressed by this. Are is someone 0:35:19.480 --> 0:35:21.960 lying about Jews so they can do violence towards them, 0:35:22.000 --> 0:35:24.080 that there's this thing. Later in life, when he gets 0:35:24.120 --> 0:35:25.960 over through the fact, he spends a lot of time 0:35:26.000 --> 0:35:28.960 listing out all of the revolutionaries and like their secret 0:35:29.040 --> 0:35:32.200 Jewish roots. Um, which is wrong about a lot of 0:35:32.200 --> 0:35:34.160 them were not Jewish. That he just like found ways 0:35:34.160 --> 0:35:35.960 to believe they were Jewish because he he comes to 0:35:35.960 --> 0:35:39.520 believe that, like all resistance to his regime, is rooted 0:35:39.600 --> 0:35:42.279 in the Jews. Um. He writes this in a letter 0:35:42.320 --> 0:35:45.920 to his mom, quote, nine tenths of the troublemakers are Jews. 0:35:45.960 --> 0:35:48.400 The people's whole anger turned against them. That is how 0:35:48.440 --> 0:35:51.000 the programs happened. It is amazing how they took place 0:35:51.000 --> 0:35:54.360 in the towns of Russia and Siberia. Now there's a 0:35:54.360 --> 0:35:56.120 lot of debate as to whether or not those are 0:35:56.120 --> 0:35:59.200 deliberately incited and organized programs as a way to regain 0:35:59.280 --> 0:36:02.680 control and alps distract people from attacking the state. Whether 0:36:02.760 --> 0:36:05.040 or not he had any sort of plan, the violence 0:36:05.080 --> 0:36:08.160 often worked out exactly as one assumes he would have wanted. 0:36:08.280 --> 0:36:10.280 And I'm going to quote now from an academic study 0:36:10.280 --> 0:36:13.640 in Monde, russ After the astounding news of the October 0:36:13.640 --> 0:36:16.800 Manifesto demonstrations and meetings with red flags began to occur 0:36:17.200 --> 0:36:19.719 now and then they were accompanied by excesses insulting to 0:36:19.760 --> 0:36:21.759 the Czarist throne. This is like the start of the 0:36:22.080 --> 0:36:25.320 left wing revolution against the Tsar. Portraits of Nicholas the Second, 0:36:25.320 --> 0:36:27.839 so revered by monarchists, were taken down by walls and 0:36:27.880 --> 0:36:31.200 sometimes from walls and sometimes destroyed, and meetings. Money was 0:36:31.239 --> 0:36:34.400 collected for Nicholas's burial on Kiev on the balcony of 0:36:34.400 --> 0:36:36.359 the city Duma building. One of those in a meeting, 0:36:36.360 --> 0:36:38.919 cut a hole in Aazarist portrait and sticking his own 0:36:38.920 --> 0:36:41.960 threat head through the hole, replacing the Tsar's face, shouted, now, 0:36:42.000 --> 0:36:44.080 I am the sovereign. You have to imagine that guy 0:36:44.160 --> 0:36:46.480 was pretty pretty drunk. I gotta be honest, man, that 0:36:46.560 --> 0:36:48.440 sounds like that. That's a good time and son of 0:36:48.480 --> 0:36:50.440 a bit, that does sound fun. This is the good timing, 0:36:50.480 --> 0:36:53.480 son of a bitch part. It takes a turn here um. 0:36:53.520 --> 0:36:56.640 The the admirers of autocracy old customs in order regarded 0:36:56.680 --> 0:36:59.080 such events as an outrage, a triumph of Jews and 0:36:59.160 --> 0:37:03.680 Sadistas in seditious intelligencia, and came out with a furious protest. 0:37:03.960 --> 0:37:06.600 Real cases of offenses to monarch as symbol similar to 0:37:06.600 --> 0:37:09.960 that described above were not ubiquitous. Sometimes they were exaggerated 0:37:10.040 --> 0:37:13.160 or just invented from nothing by pre pre program rumors, 0:37:13.200 --> 0:37:17.279 often with preposterous accusations of outrages against Orthodox shrines or 0:37:17.280 --> 0:37:20.719 Czarist portraits. For example, right before a program and Kiev, 0:37:20.840 --> 0:37:24.920 rumors circulated about an attack by slur against Jewish people 0:37:25.480 --> 0:37:29.640 to a monastery, Black Hundreds organized belligerent counter demonstrations, sometimes 0:37:29.719 --> 0:37:32.640 under pretext of celebrating the ninth anniversary of the ascension 0:37:32.640 --> 0:37:35.160 of Nicholas the Second to the throne, which clashed with 0:37:35.280 --> 0:37:38.320 left wing meetings and fights turned into programs. Depending on 0:37:38.360 --> 0:37:41.279 the possibility or desire of local authorities to restore order, 0:37:41.560 --> 0:37:45.360 these could continue for days. Almost inevitably, the Czar's portrait 0:37:45.440 --> 0:37:48.879 was present at these disgraceful events. Black Hundred demonstrations were 0:37:48.880 --> 0:37:52.160 often were very often physically organized around the Emperor's portrait. 0:37:52.400 --> 0:37:55.520 It played an important symbolic role, highlighting the assembled crowds 0:37:55.520 --> 0:37:57.920 loyalty to the throne and as if it had provided 0:37:57.960 --> 0:38:01.840 Zara sanction to the program a programs, rumors spread wildly 0:38:01.840 --> 0:38:04.840 that Nicholas Second the Second permitted them to reckon smash 0:38:04.880 --> 0:38:08.320 and beat the seditious anti's, anti monarchy rebels and tumpsk. 0:38:08.480 --> 0:38:11.080 The following ritual was observed. A crowd would come up 0:38:11.080 --> 0:38:13.399 to a store and the one walking up front would 0:38:13.400 --> 0:38:15.880 turn to the portrait of Nicholas and ask, your majesty 0:38:15.960 --> 0:38:18.200 do you allow us to destroy this store? The one 0:38:18.280 --> 0:38:21.399 carrying the portrait would answer, I permit it. So it's 0:38:21.680 --> 0:38:23.480 I'm gonna I'm gonna go out on a limb and 0:38:23.520 --> 0:38:26.520 say that that's not on the level I mean officially 0:38:26.560 --> 0:38:29.640 state saying it isn't. It isn't because the state's not 0:38:29.760 --> 0:38:33.319 sending in troops to stop this. And later on in 0:38:33.360 --> 0:38:35.880 the wake of this, Nicolas pardons a lot of the 0:38:35.880 --> 0:38:39.879 programasts um and as he just wrote to his mom, 0:38:39.920 --> 0:38:42.400 like he sees most of the revolutionaries as Jewish, he 0:38:42.440 --> 0:38:45.560 sees the people's anger against Jewish folks. He sees these 0:38:45.560 --> 0:38:48.560 programs as like an expression of honest and fair anger. 0:38:49.080 --> 0:38:51.279 So while he's not he is not saying go out 0:38:51.280 --> 0:38:55.120 and destroy Jewish businesses. But when these crowds take his 0:38:55.200 --> 0:38:57.680 portrait and use it to like justify their destruction of 0:38:57.719 --> 0:39:00.800 Jewish businesses, they're not making that up out of whole cloth, 0:39:00.960 --> 0:39:06.600 you know, yeah, um, yeah, and uh, it's it's it's 0:39:06.960 --> 0:39:09.279 it's pretty ugly. There's one cool moment and some of 0:39:09.280 --> 0:39:11.560 this stuff where so one of the things that will 0:39:11.560 --> 0:39:14.920 happen is these processions, these black hundreds marching with porches 0:39:14.960 --> 0:39:17.560 of the Czar will like walk around and they'll demand 0:39:17.680 --> 0:39:20.839 people on the street, um remove their caps and like 0:39:20.920 --> 0:39:23.600 bow to the czar and if you don't do this, 0:39:24.040 --> 0:39:25.839 you'll get the ship beaten out of you, right Like 0:39:25.960 --> 0:39:28.480 It's it's kind of like this gang being like, hey, 0:39:28.560 --> 0:39:30.399 you gotta like the guy in our picture or we're 0:39:30.400 --> 0:39:32.520 gonna kick the funk out of you. You know. Sometimes 0:39:32.600 --> 0:39:35.319 they murder people and there's we've had that. We've had 0:39:35.360 --> 0:39:38.240 that in America pretty pretty recently, and we will again. 0:39:38.800 --> 0:39:42.720 There's a beautiful moment. There's this Bolshevik v Morozov who 0:39:42.920 --> 0:39:45.920 encounters one of these processions and they're like, hey, you 0:39:45.960 --> 0:39:47.920 gotta take your hat off and you've got to declare 0:39:47.960 --> 0:39:51.000 loyalty to this picture of those are um And he 0:39:51.080 --> 0:39:54.239 doesn't do that, v moros off. Instead, he calls the 0:39:54.440 --> 0:39:57.360 ars scoundrel, pulls out a gun, shoots two of the 0:39:57.360 --> 0:40:00.359 people carrying the portrait to death um and does get 0:40:00.400 --> 0:40:03.120 beaten so badly that he nearly dies, but he survives. 0:40:04.080 --> 0:40:06.960 I mean he killed two people and a and a portrait. 0:40:07.680 --> 0:40:10.400 That's a pretty good response. He did get nearly beaten 0:40:10.400 --> 0:40:14.000 to death, though, so you know, mileage may vary. Yeah, 0:40:14.160 --> 0:40:16.279 he made it into the book. They're all dead in 0:40:16.280 --> 0:40:18.080 the story now, but he made it into the book. 0:40:18.160 --> 0:40:20.160 We do all it probably sucked at the time, but 0:40:20.239 --> 0:40:23.319 we do all know he was a badass. Now damn right, hey, man, 0:40:23.400 --> 0:40:27.359 ass kickings happen. That just that's gonna happen. And what's 0:40:27.400 --> 0:40:30.600 happened shooting two guys holding a portrait of an assholes forever? 0:40:31.000 --> 0:40:34.080 That literally, that's that's your new that's your new master 0:40:34.200 --> 0:40:37.920 card commercial, even though they haven't made those commercials. And 0:40:38.000 --> 0:40:40.600 what is a little dated, But you know what's not 0:40:41.040 --> 0:40:52.600 a dated ad is these ads right now? Oh yeah, 0:40:53.640 --> 0:40:58.560 we are back so those modern those modern ads we 0:40:58.680 --> 0:41:02.359 just had shamefully honored. So Jews were not the only 0:41:02.480 --> 0:41:07.560 racial victims of these prosarist moms right back from ats 0:41:07.640 --> 0:41:12.879 so funny. Yeah, that was some great anyway, The Jews 0:41:12.880 --> 0:41:15.759 weren't the only there were other races that the Czarists 0:41:15.840 --> 0:41:20.120 saved it. Yeah, in northern Central Russia. I guess these 0:41:20.120 --> 0:41:23.239 aren't racial victims, but students and academics are targeted and 0:41:23.280 --> 0:41:25.640 often murdered. Like they'll they'll beat up college kids and 0:41:25.680 --> 0:41:29.319 professors and assassinate them the right will because of their 0:41:29.320 --> 0:41:33.480 connections to Yeah, yeah kind of. It's also like a 0:41:33.520 --> 0:41:35.200 lot of the people. Often it will be a case 0:41:35.200 --> 0:41:37.839 of like, yes, some like college students who got radicalized 0:41:38.040 --> 0:41:40.840 will set off a bomb to kill these local officials, 0:41:41.080 --> 0:41:42.880 and then as a result, some like people in the 0:41:42.880 --> 0:41:44.920 town will go murder their professor. You know, ship like 0:41:44.960 --> 0:41:48.799 that's happening too. It's ugly, you know, it's it's kind 0:41:48.800 --> 0:41:50.840 of a civil war is going on in Russia right now, 0:41:50.840 --> 0:41:52.520 and it's very much a prelude for the civil war 0:41:52.560 --> 0:41:55.320 that will happen not all that long in the future 0:41:55.400 --> 0:41:59.360 and kill what four million people? Um, I mean, yeah, 0:41:59.760 --> 0:42:03.120 there are other targets. Im Baku Armenians were targeted by 0:42:03.120 --> 0:42:06.439 the Tsarists. Getting any kind of comprehensive death toll would 0:42:06.440 --> 0:42:09.239 be impossible, But during October of nineteen oh five, at 0:42:09.280 --> 0:42:12.560 least six hundred and twenty two people were murdered uh 0:42:12.560 --> 0:42:16.560 and three thousand four injured in programs alone. That's just 0:42:16.719 --> 0:42:20.759 deaths from these kind of like right wing masses of violence. Uh. 0:42:20.760 --> 0:42:24.239 Those numbers come from police sources, though, which probably under 0:42:24.360 --> 0:42:27.719 counts the death toll. Shlomo Lambrosa, who's a scholar, calculates 0:42:27.719 --> 0:42:30.120 more than three thousand, one hundred three deaths just among 0:42:30.200 --> 0:42:34.440 Jews during the nineteen o five programs. Now, historians seem 0:42:34.440 --> 0:42:36.600 in agreement that Czar Nicholas the Second did not have 0:42:36.640 --> 0:42:39.279 a concerted plan to spark programs. He was kind of 0:42:39.320 --> 0:42:41.840 okay with them. He did not devote a lot of 0:42:41.880 --> 0:42:45.120 effort to stopping them. But there were there were For 0:42:45.239 --> 0:42:48.400 years afterwards, people would like theorize that he had orchestrated 0:42:48.400 --> 0:42:51.320 the programs. There really does not seem to be evidence 0:42:51.400 --> 0:42:53.799 of that that it was a central plan. But we 0:42:53.880 --> 0:42:57.719 do know that anti Sism, anti Semitism was stoked purposefully 0:42:57.840 --> 0:43:01.319 by the Tsar's men, whether or not he gave the order. Um, 0:43:01.560 --> 0:43:04.160 there was this. This is kind of found out afterwards 0:43:04.160 --> 0:43:07.000 that in a corner of the St. Petersburg Police Department 0:43:07.040 --> 0:43:10.239 there's a secret printing press which is putting out pamphlets 0:43:10.239 --> 0:43:13.319 this entire time urging people to quote kill Jews, to 0:43:13.400 --> 0:43:17.759 tear them apart into tiny pieces. Um. Yeah, that's not 0:43:17.800 --> 0:43:21.520 a not a lot of like wiggle room. There not 0:43:21.640 --> 0:43:26.320 a lot of room for yeah interpretation. Just just kill them. 0:43:26.320 --> 0:43:29.480 It's fine, joke, he's joke, he's joke, but please, no, 0:43:29.640 --> 0:43:33.640 we're kidding. Kill them. But the guy printing this is 0:43:33.680 --> 0:43:37.560 a as a gendarme officer named Kamissarov Um and he's 0:43:38.560 --> 0:43:44.480 has a role in spreading the uh the protocols of 0:43:44.480 --> 0:43:47.640 the Elders of Zion to um and he's like he's 0:43:47.680 --> 0:43:52.000 funneling them using police resources from St. Petersburg through right 0:43:52.000 --> 0:43:55.239 wing organizations who spread them around the country and oftentimes 0:43:55.239 --> 0:43:56.839 these things will spread to an area and then there 0:43:56.840 --> 0:44:00.799 will be pagrams. UM. So this is where again maybe 0:44:00.880 --> 0:44:03.680 Nikki wasn't explicitly aware of all this, but like his 0:44:03.880 --> 0:44:07.320 dudes were doing it in the city where he was living, um, 0:44:07.440 --> 0:44:10.640 using his money. So the idea that people suspect he 0:44:10.719 --> 0:44:13.560 had a role in directly inciting pagrams, it doesn't come 0:44:13.560 --> 0:44:16.120 out of nowhere. You know. Again, we may have seen 0:44:16.200 --> 0:44:20.040 something like this relatively recently in our country. Yeah, thankfully 0:44:20.080 --> 0:44:22.160 not with that kind of death toll. But it is 0:44:22.239 --> 0:44:25.560 kind of like the the plausible deniability of the autocrat 0:44:25.760 --> 0:44:28.239 you know who's like, oh, yeah, I mean people, it's 0:44:28.280 --> 0:44:30.560 horrible when people do violent things. I don't think those 0:44:30.640 --> 0:44:33.759 violent things are wrong, but like I'm not organizing it. 0:44:33.800 --> 0:44:36.440 They just happened, and I say it's okay, but it's 0:44:36.480 --> 0:44:38.840 also bad at the same time when anyone pushes me 0:44:38.920 --> 0:44:42.239 on it, you know, like, yeah, we've seen this, we 0:44:42.320 --> 0:44:45.319 may I'm not gonna lie. That's something we've seen. So 0:44:45.600 --> 0:44:48.680 the wave of rebellions, um, you know, the programs kind 0:44:48.719 --> 0:44:52.440 of burned themselves out after enough people get the murder 0:44:52.480 --> 0:44:55.160 out of their systems and the stealing out of their systems. Um. 0:44:55.280 --> 0:44:58.319 The rebellions, the actual like kind of left wing uprisings 0:44:58.360 --> 0:45:01.520 against the state are put down by the military, and 0:45:01.600 --> 0:45:04.480 Nikki orders exceptional brutality to be used in defense of 0:45:04.560 --> 0:45:07.920 his regime. When the St. Petersburg workers district is stormed 0:45:07.960 --> 0:45:11.520 by Russian troops his he has his soldiers use artillery 0:45:11.560 --> 0:45:15.080 to pound populated districts of his own capital, killing three 0:45:15.120 --> 0:45:19.399 thousand people, um christ um a lot, which is like, 0:45:20.080 --> 0:45:24.160 that's as many minister that's as many like government officials 0:45:24.200 --> 0:45:27.399 as the revolutionaries kill in a period of years. Um. 0:45:27.440 --> 0:45:29.680 And they're just like the shelling of his own capital. 0:45:30.120 --> 0:45:32.920 The emperor writes in his diary, quote, the armed rebellion 0:45:32.920 --> 0:45:36.160 in Moscow has been crushed. The abscess was growing. Now 0:45:36.200 --> 0:45:39.400 it's burst. When one of his generals in the Baltics 0:45:39.840 --> 0:45:42.120 is not putting down the locals with enough brutality for 0:45:42.200 --> 0:45:45.200 Nicki's liking, bizarre, sends a man to tell him, quote, 0:45:45.480 --> 0:45:47.520 the only thing you'll get in trouble for is not 0:45:47.600 --> 0:45:52.120 being brutal enough. He then immediately executes a thousand prisoners. So, like, 0:45:52.640 --> 0:45:55.160 he sees this guy puts down this rebellion, and he's like, 0:45:55.200 --> 0:45:58.279 you're taking a lot of prisoners alive. Like, I might 0:45:58.320 --> 0:46:00.120 get angry at you for that, but if you all 0:46:00.160 --> 0:46:01.840 a bunch of them, there's no amount of people you 0:46:01.880 --> 0:46:04.319 could kill and piss me off. So this guy kills 0:46:04.320 --> 0:46:06.880 a thousand people and like very rightly, being like, well, 0:46:06.920 --> 0:46:08.759 these are basically just said I should murder more of 0:46:08.800 --> 0:46:11.120 these folks. I like that. He was like given permission. 0:46:11.120 --> 0:46:13.040 He's like, well, let's just go for the whole thing. Well, 0:46:13.080 --> 0:46:16.720 I guess I guess we'll try. Uh. Simon Montfior writes 0:46:17.160 --> 0:46:20.440 when he heard that a punitive detachment had accepted the surrender, 0:46:20.440 --> 0:46:24.200 of rebellious Lavonians. He insisted the town should have been destroyed. 0:46:24.520 --> 0:46:27.440 Arrests were celebrated with the word power. This is Nikki 0:46:27.520 --> 0:46:30.320 writing in his own diary, while the summary execution of 0:46:30.360 --> 0:46:35.560 twenty six rebellious railway road workers earned an imperial Bravo. Bezobrazov, 0:46:35.920 --> 0:46:38.160 brother of Nikki's Far East adviser and one of his 0:46:38.200 --> 0:46:42.480 favorite guards officers, staged ghoulish public shows shows of bodies 0:46:42.760 --> 0:46:46.000 dangling on gibbets. When Commander Richter, son of Alexander the 0:46:46.040 --> 0:46:48.760 Third's crony, now leading a punitive detachment in the Baltics, 0:46:49.000 --> 0:46:51.759 not only shot his prisoners but hang the bodies. Afterwards, 0:46:51.920 --> 0:46:56.040 Nicholas wrote another bravo. Trip Off informed him that Cossacks 0:46:56.040 --> 0:46:59.520 had overused their whips. Very well done, applauded Nicholas. When 0:46:59.520 --> 0:47:02.839 he heard of more executions, he commented, this really tickles me. 0:47:03.239 --> 0:47:05.280 So this is how he writes about, like the crimes 0:47:05.280 --> 0:47:08.880 against humanity. I'm tickled by the fact that you've executed 0:47:08.880 --> 0:47:13.200 these people. Oh well done. They whipped people to death. Bravo. Definitely, 0:47:13.400 --> 0:47:17.160 it definitely sees that that, like um, that disconnect when 0:47:17.160 --> 0:47:23.240 you're raised like the poppish child of privilege and power. 0:47:25.080 --> 0:47:26.960 It is really like if you ever played a game 0:47:27.000 --> 0:47:30.520 like Civilization or you know, Age of Wonders or whatever, 0:47:30.520 --> 0:47:33.160 where you like build an empire and there's sometimes people 0:47:33.200 --> 0:47:36.760 rebel and you crack down on these like fake people 0:47:36.760 --> 0:47:40.080 who don't really exist. He feels that same way about 0:47:40.160 --> 0:47:42.319 like the lives of thousands of real people. It's like 0:47:42.400 --> 0:47:44.160 he's playing a video game. He's like looking at his 0:47:44.200 --> 0:47:46.680 maps and someone saying, we put them down, and we 0:47:46.680 --> 0:47:49.040 we executed a thousand of them, or like how many 0:47:49.040 --> 0:47:50.520 of us would you like to kill out of these 0:47:50.520 --> 0:47:52.719 that we've captured, and he makes a note of how 0:47:52.719 --> 0:47:55.560 many people he once killed, and like then he goes 0:47:55.640 --> 0:47:58.440 home feeling like he's winning the game finally, I mean, 0:47:58.480 --> 0:48:00.360 I feel like a win. Yeah, yeah, are all a 0:48:00.360 --> 0:48:03.400 winner getting to hear this story. So in total, Bizar's 0:48:03.440 --> 0:48:06.680 men kill fifteen thousand people um at least, and deport 0:48:06.760 --> 0:48:10.480 forty more, cracking down on the rebellion. And this time 0:48:11.040 --> 0:48:13.600 it's enough, you know, like this is enough that he 0:48:13.719 --> 0:48:19.200 is able to hold onto power barely. Um. Yeah, in 0:48:19.239 --> 0:48:21.520 eight years, things aren't going to go so well. Now, 0:48:21.719 --> 0:48:24.759 before we roll out today, Jeff, we should probably talk 0:48:24.760 --> 0:48:28.400 a little bit about ra Ra Rasputine, lover of the 0:48:28.440 --> 0:48:32.160 Russian queen, hell boy villain boy villains. Yeah, one of 0:48:32.200 --> 0:48:35.919 the better hell boy villains. Um. Guy, I get told 0:48:35.960 --> 0:48:39.600 I look like on a not a regular basis. Um, 0:48:39.680 --> 0:48:42.799 I can see that. Yeah, well, um, And it's one 0:48:42.800 --> 0:48:46.160 of those things. He is definitely the single most famous 0:48:46.200 --> 0:48:49.040 person today in the whole Romanov story. As a general rule, 0:48:49.080 --> 0:48:51.960 the only reason people talk about Nicholas the second or 0:48:52.000 --> 0:48:55.560 his wife, um is either to talk about Anastasia or 0:48:55.600 --> 0:48:58.239 to talk about Rasputin, and generally both at the same time. 0:48:58.320 --> 0:49:01.640 Like in the Disney movie I don't I don't think 0:49:01.680 --> 0:49:04.799 you look like Rasputing. For the record, there's there's there's 0:49:04.840 --> 0:49:07.399 more love in your eyes. Thank you, Sophie. That's very 0:49:07.400 --> 0:49:12.960 sweet of you. Know. This is Robert. So it's one 0:49:12.960 --> 0:49:16.000 of those things pop history is right, and that this 0:49:16.040 --> 0:49:20.319 guy really is as influential as as the popular you know, 0:49:20.360 --> 0:49:22.600 depictions make him say he's a huge part of the 0:49:22.640 --> 0:49:25.879 regime and why a bunch of stuff happens. Um. It's 0:49:25.920 --> 0:49:28.600 also like wrong in some weird ways because he is 0:49:29.080 --> 0:49:31.640 like it always portrays him as this malevolent force and 0:49:31.680 --> 0:49:34.560 he gives a lot of bad advice, his advice, but 0:49:34.600 --> 0:49:36.560 he also is like one of the people saying like, 0:49:36.600 --> 0:49:40.160 you should probably stop being shitty to Jewish people. Um, 0:49:40.320 --> 0:49:42.640 you should probably not get into World War One. Now, 0:49:42.840 --> 0:49:45.960 that's why people don't like it's also a rapist. Um 0:49:46.080 --> 0:49:48.120 like there's he's not a good person. We'll do an 0:49:48.120 --> 0:49:52.160 episode on Rasputin someday in the future. But I'm genuinely 0:49:52.200 --> 0:49:55.160 surprised you haven't. Well, people keep telling me I look 0:49:55.239 --> 0:49:57.880 like him, and it makes me you do not self conscious, 0:49:58.000 --> 0:50:01.040 thank you, Sophie. So for now, the cliffs notes are 0:50:01.080 --> 0:50:02.799 that he was a poor kid from the east of 0:50:02.880 --> 0:50:05.600 fucking nowhere who got in trouble for like stealing some 0:50:05.680 --> 0:50:07.640 ship and sleeping around, and he gets kicked out of 0:50:07.640 --> 0:50:09.759 the town he comes from. He becomes a priest, he 0:50:09.800 --> 0:50:12.600 sucks a bunch more people, and gradually he turns into 0:50:12.680 --> 0:50:16.120 this like guru type cult figure. Um, he's kind of 0:50:16.120 --> 0:50:19.840 a cult leader. He's not quite what we recognized as 0:50:19.840 --> 0:50:22.960 a cult leader because he doesn't have like this group 0:50:23.000 --> 0:50:25.719 who have a shared identity, and that identity is like 0:50:25.800 --> 0:50:28.120 worshiping him, because like that would be too much for 0:50:28.160 --> 0:50:30.840 the Czar and Czarina, right, the Czar's kind of his 0:50:30.880 --> 0:50:33.480 own cult. You don't get to be a cult leader 0:50:33.520 --> 0:50:35.360 like we know of a cult leader in Russia in 0:50:35.360 --> 0:50:40.200 this period. Um no, because that's there. Yeah, but he's 0:50:40.239 --> 0:50:43.840 kind of like cult cuckolding Bizar because the Czars kind 0:50:43.840 --> 0:50:47.680 of his follower. It's it's it's an odd situation. And 0:50:47.719 --> 0:50:51.840 again he follows, you know, in the footsteps of a 0:50:52.000 --> 0:50:58.160 Philippe who really very very conscientiously uh seasoned to the 0:50:58.200 --> 0:51:01.359 ground in front of or behind, so that this guy 0:51:01.360 --> 0:51:04.200 would have an easier time pulling one over on the 0:51:04.239 --> 0:51:07.680 biggest Rube in all of history. Um. So rest buten, 0:51:08.080 --> 0:51:10.840 you know, as he starts to like develop this cult following, 0:51:10.880 --> 0:51:13.399 he starts he claims that he calls himself a healer um. 0:51:13.440 --> 0:51:16.759 And he begins traveling around wealthy St. Petersburg's circles, you know, 0:51:16.880 --> 0:51:19.560 the families of the nobles and the wealthy, basically like helping. 0:51:19.960 --> 0:51:21.360 A lot of times, it will be like a woman 0:51:21.480 --> 0:51:24.799 has some sort of hysteria, and obviously his prescription is, well, 0:51:24.800 --> 0:51:28.120 you should probably funk rescutin. And it works a lot 0:51:28.160 --> 0:51:31.320 at the time, I guess because because he keeps keeps 0:51:31.320 --> 0:51:36.040 getting word of mouth, you know, that's well yeah, um, 0:51:36.080 --> 0:51:39.160 he winds up having a making his first connection to 0:51:39.200 --> 0:51:42.279 the Romanov family through a Romanov named Nikolasha, who's like 0:51:42.320 --> 0:51:45.920 a cousin of the czar um And Nikolasha is kind 0:51:45.960 --> 0:51:48.440 of competent. He's one of he's a soldier, and he's 0:51:48.440 --> 0:51:51.120 one of the few Romanovs who actually like isn't just 0:51:51.200 --> 0:51:53.319 like doing that to dress up like he's not a 0:51:53.360 --> 0:51:57.120 complete idiot when it comes to military matters. Um. He's 0:51:57.160 --> 0:51:59.680 known as the Terrible for his temper, and the Czar 0:51:59.760 --> 0:52:01.840 bres him in close to the family in the nineteen 0:52:01.840 --> 0:52:03.920 o five uprisings because he thinks he might need to 0:52:03.920 --> 0:52:06.840 appoint a dictator, Like it's going bad enough in nineteen 0:52:06.840 --> 0:52:08.200 o five. That is, like, I might need to make 0:52:08.200 --> 0:52:10.160 my cousin the dictator so that I don't have to 0:52:10.200 --> 0:52:11.759 take the stink on me of doing some of this 0:52:11.880 --> 0:52:15.880 ugly shit. It doesn't wind up, I mean, why not 0:52:16.080 --> 0:52:21.440 have somebody with the nickname the Terrible. Hey, cousin the Terrible? 0:52:21.920 --> 0:52:28.280 I got this like problem now. Nikolasha again, competent, soldier, 0:52:28.360 --> 0:52:30.120 kind of a crazy person. He wanted to be a 0:52:30.120 --> 0:52:33.359 medieval night. He kept a court of dwarves around him. 0:52:33.400 --> 0:52:35.680 I think because he read that in a medieval storybook 0:52:35.719 --> 0:52:39.439 at some point and decided it sounded cool. Um. That's 0:52:39.440 --> 0:52:43.920 what he describes them as, a cult of a court 0:52:44.040 --> 0:52:47.920 of of dwarves. I think it's you know, um, it's 0:52:47.960 --> 0:52:51.759 it's nineteen o six. Um. And for an example, I'm 0:52:51.800 --> 0:52:54.480 not I'm not judging the words at this point in time. 0:52:54.760 --> 0:52:57.000 You should judge the pretty nice thing to say in 0:52:57.080 --> 0:52:59.920 nineteen o six because another thing he's famous for is 0:53:00.000 --> 0:53:02.160 he gets really drunk at a party, wants and he 0:53:02.200 --> 0:53:04.480 wants to show off his favorite sword, and the way 0:53:04.520 --> 0:53:06.239 he does that is by using it to cut his 0:53:06.280 --> 0:53:08.840 pet dog in half. All Right, well, that's not I 0:53:08.840 --> 0:53:11.439 would say, I'm gonna go out on a that's not good. 0:53:11.560 --> 0:53:16.880 It's not. That's probably worse than some questionable linguistic choices 0:53:16.920 --> 0:53:20.160 he's made. Um. Now, like most nobles in this period, 0:53:20.200 --> 0:53:23.400 he believes in what he described as the divine origin 0:53:23.480 --> 0:53:26.080 of Czarist power. He felt God had given Nicholas the 0:53:26.120 --> 0:53:29.920 Second some special secret strength um that would lead him 0:53:29.920 --> 0:53:31.839 out of that would help him lead Russia out of 0:53:31.880 --> 0:53:35.240 like its problems. So obviously he falls immediately for everything 0:53:35.320 --> 0:53:37.319 Russia's suns. Guy. I thinks he's a medieval night. He's 0:53:37.360 --> 0:53:39.960 like very gullible. He buys into all this right the 0:53:39.960 --> 0:53:42.880 funk away um, and this is going to be the 0:53:42.880 --> 0:53:47.640 way in which Rasputin um lover of the Russian queen Um. 0:53:47.760 --> 0:53:50.439 Not really, but that's what a lot of Russians believe 0:53:50.440 --> 0:53:53.120 at this time. Um. That's how he winds up getting 0:53:53.120 --> 0:53:55.000 into the family. And we will talk more about that 0:53:55.120 --> 0:53:58.080 and more about everything else in our conclusion to the 0:53:58.160 --> 0:54:03.480 epic saga Nicolas the second. What a dick, Jeff, He 0:54:03.600 --> 0:54:06.000 got any plugg doubles to plug? First? 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