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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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The History of the Russian Revolution

Masha and Vera try to kill some people. Land and freedom does a lot of shit kind of all in 1878. The police raid some radical presses, one press operator named Ivan Kavalski is like, you know what? He fights the police with a dagger and a gun while his friends burn all the incriminating documents. Multiple people are getting shot in stabs, nihilists kill an infiltrator. Then they shoot a prosecutor who also survives. More than one chief of police gets stabbed to death with a dagger at this point.

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