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| | JRL #7143 - Russia & Saddam, Peace Camp Dying, Iraq Debt, Aksyonov/ Iraq & US, Military Reform, Veshnyakov Interview/ ... |
 | | We still have not understood, for instance, that the Russian empire collapsed not because of the development of Marxism but because of the 40 years of continuous terror by underground groups and revolutionary parties against the tsarist administration. |
 | | Starting with the attempts by Karakozov and continuing with the successful assassinations of Zhelyabov, Grinevitskiy, and Perovskaya, not a month passed that a general, a governor, a police chief, a grand duke, or a prime minister was not killed in some part of the empire. |
 | | At the moment of its fall, the administration was totally demoralized by fear and despair, and the population had become accustomed to these reprisals. |
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