Nicholas II
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Sep 13, 2026
George MarstonGUEST
Rasputin died in 1916.
George MarstonGUEST
Well, before the Nazis, he was a Russian mystic who was very close to the Tsar and Tsarina, the last Tsar Nicholas of Russia, and essentially he was killed by the.
George MarstonGUEST
advisors of the czar because he was leading them deeper and deeper into world war one so he was not involved in nazis in any way died before the nazis definitely dead there's all the rumors about you know he survived he was shot 30 times drowned poisoned blah blah blah and still didn't die So I think that's the most fully fictionalized thing.
George MarstonGUEST
But surprisingly, a lot of it is closer to what we think of as historical Nazi mysticism than you might expect, because there is a contingent of the original National Socialist Party that arose from an occultist belief and was informed by an occultist belief that did not extend deeply.
Samo BurjaGUEST
You know, there's this interesting thing about politics where people assume that if you have a guy named a king or a a group of old men called the Senate, that they do what the label says.
Samo BurjaGUEST
But in politics, you know, there's this interesting way where even if you try to abolish the Tsar, you just might end up with a general secretary, right? You might trade in Nicholas II for Stalin.
Samo BurjaGUEST
If the body politic has, you know, a Congress or a legislature shaped whole, you know, you know, your liver is not supposed to be a heart, but the Supreme Court is a surprisingly functional Congress right now.
Samo BurjaGUEST
It's not supposed to be by the Constitution or the business of making of laws, but it manifestly is making more laws than Congress.
Ted LinhartNARRATOR
It is worthwhile to recall the preliminary steps that some high-minded rulers took in this direction.
Ted LinhartNARRATOR
Tsar Nicholas invited foreign governments to the first of those peace conferences which met at The Hague.
Ted LinhartNARRATOR
Successive presidents of the United States, for their part, strove to obtain an immediate practical result by means of treaties concluded with various nations.
Ted LinhartNARRATOR
The object of these treaties was to submit to a court of arbitration any disputes that might arise among the signatories.
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Ted LinhartNARRATOR
At the court of Berlin, the Franco-Russian alliance was not regarded as a rock that nothing could shatter.
Ted LinhartNARRATOR
The Potsdam Agreement, concluded by M. Kokovtsov and restricted in its scope, so far as we can tell, to Western Asia, seemed to open up a promising vista.
Ted LinhartNARRATOR
Repeated advances were made to Tsar Nicholas.
Ted LinhartNARRATOR
Interviews took place, such as the one at Baltic Port, where William II exercised all the seductive wiles at his command to cajole the Russian sovereign and win the confidence of his ministers.
Jose MiguelGUEST
That's what it breaks down to when you work out the logic.
Jose MiguelGUEST
So like an article critiquing that, I point out that if I were to adopt the specific revisionist view of Walter D. Kennedy and Al Benson Jr., then I would have to make the claim that Tsar Vladimir, every single Tsar from Saint Vladimir the Great all the way to Saint Tsar Nicholas II were all socialists and communists, which is utterly revolutionary communists, which is utterly nonsensical.
Jose MiguelGUEST
Likewise, I would have to say that all the emperors of Byzantium were revolutionary communists, which is also utterly nonsensical.
Jose MiguelGUEST
I'd also have to say that every single dynasty of China were revolutionary socialists, which is, again, utterly nonsensical.
Jose MiguelGUEST
and uh it's and part of it is because we as a you know as americans as a whole don't know we you know we can't even get extended family life correct like how are you going to get village life correct if you can't even do that
David Patrick HarryHOST
it's new hampshire i'm sure okay maybe it was new hampshire i was thinking vermont for some reason yep and then uh obi-wan followed up says i don't know why none of the conservative czars restored the mp
Jose MiguelGUEST
the one who tried to do so was saint czar nicholas ii that's why he's the one who's a saint it wasn't he was not a saint simply because of uh you know his martyrdom he was a saint because he was in fact living a saintly life um so that was his goal to restore the mp uh the um Yeah, the thing is, you've got to take into account, so yes, it was an autocracy, but the nobles definitely had sway.
Jose MiguelGUEST
And
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
The Regular Election of Benedict X.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
Election of Nicholas II.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
Designs of Hildebrand, 1054-1059.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
The death of Leo was a critical event for the papacy and the empire.
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Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
He immediately summoned a synod at Sutri, where Benedict was pronounced deposed and excommunicate, and then advanced with his supporters to Rome, where the soldiers of Godfrey and the money of Hildebrand soon secured the acquiescence of the people.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
Benedict fled first to Passerano and then to Galeria.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
Gerhard was consecrated in St. Peter's on or about January 25th, 1059, and took the name of Nicholas II.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
For ten years Hildebrand had looked to the German emperor as the mainstay of the reforming movement in the church, but a new idea seems henceforth to have taken hold of his mind.
Mikael ShainkmanHOST
These factory workers were starting to become a political factor, even though their frustration was growing because the Russian authorities were blocking all attempts at organising politically or improving their living conditions.
Mikael ShainkmanHOST
The Tsar, Nicholas II, had not only resumed his Russification process, undermining the faith in the institutions and the rule of law, but was also consistently blocking any attempts to introduce social reforms in Finland, reforms that might have diffused some of the tensions.
Mikael ShainkmanHOST
Many Finns were growing disillusioned and were starting to lose hope that the political situation would ever change, at least not in a positive direction.
Mikael ShainkmanHOST
But then, all of a sudden, 1917 happened.
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Mikael ShainkmanHOST
It was led by Per-Evind Svinhuvud from the Constitutional Fenneman Party, also known as the Young Finns, a patriotic liberal party.
Mikael ShainkmanHOST
Svinhuvud had actually returned to Finland quite recently.
Mikael ShainkmanHOST
In 1914 the Tsar had sent him into exile in Siberia, and only after the fall of Nicholas II had Svinhuvud been able to return home.
Mikael ShainkmanHOST
The first priority of the new Senate was to cut all ties with Petrograd and declare independence.
SydneyHOST
it's before the cold war it's before i mean it's like the beginning of the soviet union Yeah, and they don't talk about...
SydneyHOST
Because Stalin, not Stalin, Nicholas II, he was murdered.
SydneyHOST
His family was killed like 1917.
SydneyHOST
So that's the end of the Russian Empire.
Austin PicardHOST
the, uh, you know, concept of just allowable opinion as, as we've mentioned from the beginning.
Jacob JohnsonHOST
Well, you know, I, I think I, I do have a feeling that the, the so-called elites are genuinely worried about ending up like Tsar Nicholas or like the French aristocrats, you know?
Austin PicardHOST
Right.
Jacob JohnsonHOST
Because that's not out of the realm of possibility, right? You know, even though most every, uh, uprising of the 20th century is definitely astroturfed and being led by, you know, uh, intelligence influence-
speaker_0NARRATOR
He was part of the most powerful royal family in the world.
speaker_0NARRATOR
His first cousins were King George V, Kaiser Wilhelm, and Tsar Nicholas II, men who would shape 20th century Europe.
speaker_4GUEST
Charles Edward was born at a time when monarchy was the unchallenged form of government from Lisbon to Vladivostok, what was always seen to be the great golden era of European monarchy.
speaker_0NARRATOR
But Charles Edward's birth was marred by tragedy.
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speaker_3GUEST
If you want to understand why he turned so right-wing, you have to understand that he was terribly scared of this red threat.
speaker_0NARRATOR
The bloody 1917 Russian Revolution had shaken Charles Edward to the core.
speaker_0NARRATOR
His cousin, Sir Nicholas II, had been murdered with his family by the Bolsheviks.
speaker_0NARRATOR
In Germany, a socialist uprising had robbed him of his titles and land.
Jason Jay SmartHOST
In 1905, as Tsarist Russia's military collapsed against Japan, pro-war elites faced a wave of partisan attacks.
Jason Jay SmartHOST
Tsar Nicholas II, he ordered his secret police, the Okhrana, to guard every minister and every one of the state's cheerleaders.
Jason Jay SmartHOST
Those guards, uh, they did not stop the regime's downfall.
Jason Jay SmartHOST
They simply gave the tsar a front-row seat to his government's paranoia.
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