
Part One: Nestor Makhno: Anarchist Warlord and Book Club Aficionado
Behind the Bastards
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The Enlightened Despot
Catherine the second was known as an enlightened despot, which maybe is a deterrent we should use. She gave away 5 million hectares of Ukrainian land to Russian nobles. A lot of these people that she gave all this land to didn't actually wind up living on the land. People have been fighting over it for a long time as a result. They make some good sausages, some good soups.
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