Roman von Ungern-Sternberg

Among the stories of all those intriguing commanders, with each one a story so brutal, heroic, and tragic as the others, was one Cossack commander who truly stood out in eccentricity.

Roman von Ungern-Sternberg was of Baltic German noble origin, but fell in love with the Far East, its history, and culture.

He was convinced he was a descendant of Genghis Khan, adopted a hybrid ideology of combined Buddhism, Christianity, and Samurai influences, and led his clique of merciless Cossacks in brutal battle against the Communists.

but not before conquering Mongolia, albeit for a brief while, and declaring himself its head of state.

All right.

This is a, this is a question I had, but also one of the guys in the, in my private chat, Marshall Forward had, he said, will you ever dedicate an episode to the, of the World War I series to the Bolshevik uprising as well as the Russian civil war? Would you also possibly talk about Roman von Ungern-Sternberg's crusades to violate-

Sternberg.

Yeah.

Okay, I don't, Thelma, I was like, I don't, his whole thing is like, basically, you know, Thelma is the whole, like, do what you will thing is like, radical, like, independence, rugged individualism, and it, to me, wreaks a lot of, like, Ayn Rand kind of talking points.

So, you know, Gerald Gardner, who himself wasn't outright racist, but he was close friends with uh alistair crowley and i'm of the opinion you know the company that you keep says a lot about you you know if you're if you're close friends with a rabid racist uh you know that says a lot to me uh but uh you know of course the nazis and uh an individual that not a lot of people have heard of but uh baron ungern von sternberg who was an individual who was a russian uh General and noble who like went to Mongolia and conquered Mongolia during the 1910s early 1920s and tried to create a white Shambhala or a white paradise for his, you know, he was obsessed with Buddhism and all things like that so we're going to be talking about that as well.

I've actually already done a video specifically about him on my YouTube channel.

It's a wild story.