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Re:Hollywood Movie Aside, Just How Good a Physicist Was Oppe... by dijit on Friday July 21, 2023 @04:57AM (#36811607)
A lot of people forget that the reason there even was an uprising was because the country was so poor and the upper class was seen as decadent and out of touch.
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Re:Hollywood Movie Aside, Just How Good a Physicist Was Oppe... by foobarian on Friday July 21, 2023 @08:43AM (#36813124)
Honestly they also seemed to have gotten really unlucky with their last tsar. Makes you wonder how things would have played out if they got someone exceptionally good instead of Nicholas II.
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Re:Hollywood Movie Aside, Just How Good a Physicist Was Oppe... by kwhitefoot on Friday July 21, 2023 @10:22AM (#36814121)
> how things would have played out if they got someone exceptionally good instead of Nicholas II.

It's not just the man or woman at the top who make the country work. Peter the Great and Catherine the Great tried to modernize. But the nobility put up a lot of resistance or simply didn't turn up for committee meetings.

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