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Hekate

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6. The probability is that you are correct

Reply to Warpy (Reply #5)

Fri Aug 22, 2025, 04:48 AM

Friday

Russian government lives on secrecy — and abuse of the commoners — and murder of the inconvenient. They have since the times of the Tsars.

Funny thing about reading old memoirs by foreigners who lived there in the 1800s, and novels and memoirs by Russians — one gets a sense of the Russian character that forms the basis of the kinds of government they end up with, whether Tsarist or Soviet or oligarchical.

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