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Attributing Nicholas II death to 12 year earlier Russo-Japanese war and not... ongoing WW1 is weird take.
> Alexander II was assasinated.
25 years later by revolutionary socialists, not some kind of revanchist.
>Lenin implemented the red terror to ensure his grip.
Actually totally reverse, Lenin then ended it with NEP: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Economic_Policy
>Yeltsin was forced to resign to... you guessed it; Putin.
"Forced" 4 years later full of disastrous policies and, most importantly for russian state, low oil prices.
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Attributing Nicholas II death to 12 year earlier Russo-Japanese war and not... ongoing WW1 is weird take.
> Alexander II was assasinated.
25 years later by revolutionary socialists, not some kind of revanchist.
>Lenin implemented the red terror to ensure his grip.
Actually totally reverse, Lenin then ended it with NEP: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Economic_Policy
>Yeltsin was forced to resign to... you guessed it; Putin.
"Forced" 4 years later full of disastrous policies and, most importantly for russian state, low oil prices.