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Part Two: Russian Nihilists: The Gender-bending Subculture that Blew Up the Tsar

Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

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Nietzsche's Secret Society

Nietzsche and three other people lure him into the Moscow School of Agriculture, shoot and strangle him to death. The fact that his three friends go down and he doesn't, he gets out of Russia. It sure sounds like he didn't act in the spirit of solidarity. And so he fucks off out of Russia and he goes back to Bekunin. But eventually Bekunin is like, you're not a revolutionary, you're a Jesuit,. He's like, you are like obsessed with this weird purity revolution nonsense. And I'll fuck you. "I use a tour with a Japanese band called Pielander Z. They're great"

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