Discussion about this post

User's avatar
Roland (CA->WA)'s avatar

Basically, Peter the Great and his successors put the “Roman” in “Romanov.”

…and quite appropriately usurped the word “czar,” a variant of “caesar.”

Expand full comment
Gail (Chicago)'s avatar

I have often wondered whether Stalin was worse than Hitler. I have not been able to answer that because they were both so horrific. They were both so mentally ill. And neither would have been able to do what they did without the hundreds or thousands of people who enabled their reign's of terror. Not unlike the many GOP enablers.

Expand full comment
39 more comments...

No posts