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130: Russia: From the Great War to Revolution with Deputy Provost Kat Brown

History That Doesn't Suck

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Nicholas the Ned Flanders

As the war dragged on, it became a lot harder to find quality people to replace them until so much that Nicholas became his own favorite general. In fact, he was the one who got Germany to mobilize on the Eastern Front because he was also stubborn. And so when the Austrians said that they were going to invade Serbia, right, Nicholas is like, no, pan slavism. He's more like the Ned Flanders.

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