Catherine the Great with Dana Schwartz
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Catherine the Great Is an Enlightenment Leader
History is filled with both gossip and this very sortive, in the minutia, relatable human narrative. And then also, it's filled with the most fucked up things you can amagin people doing to each other. Any empire or reign we talk about, there's that corollary again. Some people put surf dom in a different category because they're ethnically russian. But yet, for contect this is the 17 hundred when the west indies slave trade is boomin,. They're just like, why would we bother going far away? Let's just oppress people who are at hand. Over time, destroy the idea of autonomy or humanity for them.
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