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Nicholas II

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Oct 27, 2026

Christopher DillonHOST
2:14
Mass protest demonstrations that day had climaxed at the installation of Germany's first ever socialist government.
Christopher DillonHOST
2:22
Kaiser Wilhelm II, with the grisly fate of his cousin, Tsar Nicholas II on his mind, had fled in panic to the Netherlands.
Christopher DillonHOST
2:31
But I suspect that many Reichs- and Republics listeners will find the Targa Black's verdict somewhat eccentric.
Christopher DillonHOST
2:37
The German Revolution of 1918, after all, doesn't tend to place too highly in the global charts of pulse-racing revolutions.

45 MINS LATER

Katja HoyerHOST
47:24
Yeah, I think what played a role with this as well is that there was, of course, the Russian Revolution, and we've already said that people look to these as examples of what happens, and also the French Revolution and various other examples, where there were a lot of dead members of the elites at the end of it.
Katja HoyerHOST
47:43
And especially as we mentioned that Tsar Nicholas isn't anyone.
Katja HoyerHOST
47:47
He's the Kaiser's cousin.
Katja HoyerHOST
47:49
So this is something where I think it would have been very much on the Kaiser's mind that if he doesn't go now, this is what may end up happening to him and to his children and to his family.
Violetta PleshakovaGUEST
9:17
This girl is weird.
Violetta PleshakovaGUEST
9:18
And I also had at some point obsession with the Romanov family, especially with the last Tsar, Nicholas II and his family who got executed by the Bolsheviks.
Violetta PleshakovaGUEST
9:28
Anyway, I got obsessed with it and everyone was making fun of me.
Violetta PleshakovaGUEST
9:31
Why she's so obsessed? Well, it was a special interest.
Daniel SheehanGUEST
23:07
to become the bulwark against Bolshevism in Europe.
Daniel SheehanGUEST
23:12
Because at the very end of World War I, the Bolsheviks had overthrown Tsar Nicholas II in Russia and withdrew them from the war.
Preston DennettHOST
23:21
And
Daniel SheehanGUEST
23:21
so the people that were the private investors, these robber baron investors, were freaking out over the fact that there was this socialist... country now in the world that was somehow going to challenge them.
Matthew Raphael JohnsonGUEST
15:32
And this would have continued in centralization.
Matthew Raphael JohnsonGUEST
15:36
And depending on, let's say that Tsar Nicholas survived, whoever would have come later, they may have found one pliable enough to give over the currency to the Rothschild family.
Matthew Raphael JohnsonGUEST
15:46
That what if is kind of important.
Matthew Raphael JohnsonGUEST
15:49
But the revolution was going to occur under Jewish control in one form or another.
Matthew Raphael JohnsonGUEST
18:16
is able to keep a lid on this as much as humanly possible.
Matthew Raphael JohnsonGUEST
18:20
I'll repeat myself.
Matthew Raphael JohnsonGUEST
18:21
If Nicholas II had survived, there would have had to have been a mass expulsion or nationalization, which kind of makes more sense, or else they would have simply taken over the economy entirely, you know, a handful of them.
Matthew Raphael JohnsonGUEST
18:37
And foreign policy would have been dictated by banking connections in Britain and France.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
1:42
Picking up where we left off last time.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
1:46
On twelfth and thirteenth October, before all other secondary schools, the pupils of two business schools, that of the Emperor Nicholas I and that of Fig, ceased to attend classes, being the most sensitive to revolutionary propaganda.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
2:01
On the fourteenth, it was decided to halt all the work in all the secondary schools, and business schools and students went to all the high schools of the city to force the pupils to go on course strikes.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
2:13
The rumor went around that in front of the Bera- Berezina High School, three students and three high school students had been wounded with swords by police officers.

17 MINS LATER

Matthew Raphael JohnsonGUEST
19:02
And remember, the roast into the atmosphere of the February Revolution, that's, of course, the provisional government revolution.
Matthew Raphael JohnsonGUEST
19:11
Bolsheviks are in October.
Matthew Raphael JohnsonGUEST
19:15
But the one thing that the Kerensky government did very well, and I've talked about this, I'm going to repeat it again, this is about the third time, that they created the extraordinary commission to look into the government of Nicholas II, the pogroms, Rasputin, all of these issues.
Matthew Raphael JohnsonGUEST
19:34
And they could find no fault.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
4:36
Rabbi Shmuel Bershadsky, head of the Hasidim movement in Bobruisk, was shot in 1941 when the city was captured by the Germans.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
4:45
Censor Gershon Sirota, whose performance had once caught the attention of Nicholas II and who performed yearly in St. Petersburg and Moscow, died in 1941 in Warsaw.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
4:56
There were two brothers, Paul and Vladimir Mintz.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
4:59
Paul the elder was a prominent Latvian politician, the only Jew in the government of Latvia.

4 HRS 24 MINS LATER

Ryan SeacrestADVERTISER
268:43
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Matthew Raphael JohnsonGUEST
268:47
And there's no way they could have known what would have come from this, the provisional government.
Matthew Raphael JohnsonGUEST
268:52
They really believed naively that, okay, Nicholas II has resigned and said, look to, and Rasputin was a bad guy, and look to this new government for, support them.
Matthew Raphael JohnsonGUEST
269:08
And then what they're going to do is call an assembly and we'll elect an all-Russian government.
Matthew Raphael JohnsonGUEST
15:44
And this would have continued in centralization.
Matthew Raphael JohnsonGUEST
15:48
And depending on, let's say that Tsar Nicholas survived, whoever would have come later, they may have found one pliable enough to give over the currency to the Rothschild family.
Matthew Raphael JohnsonGUEST
15:58
That what if is kind of important.
Matthew Raphael JohnsonGUEST
16:01
But the revolution was going to occur under Jewish control in one form or another.
Matthew Raphael JohnsonGUEST
18:26
A monarchy is able to keep a lid on this as much as humanly possible.
Matthew Raphael JohnsonGUEST
18:31
I'll repeat myself.
Matthew Raphael JohnsonGUEST
18:33
If Nicholas II had survived, there would have had to have been a, a mass expulsion or p- or, or nationalization, which kind of makes, makes more sense, or else they would have simply taken over, um, uh, the economy entirely, you know, a, a handful of them.
Matthew Raphael JohnsonGUEST
18:49
And foreign policy would have been dictated by, by, uh, banking connections in Britain and France.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
0:44
All right, um, we're just gonna jump, uh, jump in right where we ended and, um, go from here, and go to the next natural stopping point, and here we go.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
0:55
"Due to his incessant energy, Nicholas I, throughout his reign, did not only face failures in his efforts to transform Jewish life in its different aspects.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
1:08
This was the case with Jewish agriculture.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
1:11
The regulations on obligations of recruitment and military service of the Jews, dated 1827, stipulated that Jewish farmers transferred on private plots were released, as well as their children, from the obligation to provide recruits for a period of 50 years, exemption incurring from the moment they actually began to engage in agricultural work.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
1:35
As soon as this regulation was made public, more Jews returned to the colonies than those who had absented, absented themselves on their own initiative that had been signaled absent."
Matthew Raphael JohnsonGUEST
1:48
I, uh, I was reading the Jewish Encyclopedia just before we came on, on some of these issues, and it's at least on, on...
Matthew Raphael JohnsonGUEST
2:01
I mean, normally, the encyclopedia and certain things is vaguely reasonable, but not when it comes to Russia, and certainly not when it comes to Nicholas I.
Matthew Raphael JohnsonGUEST
2:14
Even Wikipedia, in fact, if you go to antisemitism in the Russian Empire, it's, they come out and say that given everything we've, we've said, that Nicholas I wanted to destroy Jewish life, that he engaged in forcible conversion of Jews, and that even when, you know, they were, he, th-they make it seem like all Jews or young men were, Jewish young men were drafted and used as cannon fodder.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
3:59
Picking up where we left off last time.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
4:01
"On 12th and 13th October, before all other secondary schools, the pupils of two business schools, that of the Emperor Nicholas I and that of Feig, ceased to attend classes, being the most sensitive to revolutionary propaganda.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
4:18
On the 14th, it was decided to halt all the work in all the secondary schools, and business schools and students went to all the high schools of the city to force the pupils to go on course strikes.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
4:29
The rumor went around that in front of the Be- Berezina High School, three students and three high school students had been wounded with swords by police officers.

17 MINS LATER

Matthew Raphael JohnsonGUEST
21:31
But the one thing that the Kerensky government did very well, and I've talked about this, I'm going to repeat it again.
Matthew Raphael JohnsonGUEST
21:38
This is very, by the third time.
Matthew Raphael JohnsonGUEST
21:41
That they created the extraordinary commission to look into the government of Nicholas II, the pogroms, Rasputin, all of these issues.
Matthew Raphael JohnsonGUEST
21:51
And they could find no fault.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
4:48
Rabbi Shmuel Bershadsky, head of the Hasidim movement in Bobruisk, was shot in 1941 when the city was captured by the Germans.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
4:57
Cancer Gershon Sirota, whose performance had once caught the attention of Nicholas II and who performed yearly in St. Petersburg and Moscow, died in 1941 in Warsaw.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
5:08
There were two brothers, Paul and Vladimir Mintz.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
5:11
Paul, the elder, was a prominent Latvian politician, the only Jew in the government of Latvia.

4 HRS 36 MINS LATER

Ryan SeacrestADVERTISER
281:41
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Matthew Raphael JohnsonGUEST
281:45
And there's no way they could have known what would have come from this provisional government.
Matthew Raphael JohnsonGUEST
281:50
They really believed, naively, that, okay, Nicholas II has resigned and said, look to, and Rasputin was a bad guy, and look to this new government for, support them.
Matthew Raphael JohnsonGUEST
282:06
And then what they're going to do is call an assembly and we'll elect an all-Russian government.

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