'Tis the Season to Celebrate Shrovetide'

It's easy to draw a direct line between the gigantic town wide beat downs that joseph a robert dis as a small child and the terrific violence that he unleashed as the red czar of the us. Historian stephen cotkin cautions against that kind of thinking. In his b rapy, stalen a sizable chunk of humanity was beaten by one or more parents. Nor did gory suffer from an especially violent oriental culture of these town wide fist fights.