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The Death of Alexander the Second
When you consider just the, the czar Alexander the second, he was famous for his reforms. But that is the problem, isn't it? Is that if you earn an absolute autocrat, if you have total power, if you try to reform, the problem is you set loose as Dostoyevsky would say demons and they cannot be stopped. And so, you know, and then one of the sad ironies is you asked the question, what would have happened if Alexander the second had lived, but he didn't. He was assassinated. Yes.
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