
Part Two: Russian Nihilists: The Gender-bending Subculture that Blew Up the Tsar
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The Wylie-Kyote Stage of Nihilism
Nihilists tried to blow up the czars train in Ukraine. They picked three spots that the train was likely to be going through, and they set a trap at each one. In February 1880, a nihilist probably named Tyler Durden takes a job at the Winter Palace because his Pew or Fight Club style. He starts filling the basement with dynamite. And their timing was off and they kill 11 people, wounding 50 and miss the czar completely.
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