Sir Antony Beevor
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Well, I mean, should we say religion and conspicuous cruelty have often been very involved.
And not just, I mean, in Islam, in Christianity, in virtually every single religion.
So I don't think it's unique to Russia necessarily in that particular way, but it's something which has persisted.
And I mean, we see it, we see...
unbelievable things.
I mean, for example, when the Tsar sends, Tsar Nicholas II wants to send his fleet from the Baltic all the way around the world to attack the Japanese in one of the most disastrous naval decisions in history, you know, he gets the priests on board to bless all the guns to help the accuracy.
It's a mentality of the idea that somehow the power of the icon, which was sort of distributed to the ships and the individuals and all the rest of it,
These talismans, all of those sort of gave the idea of, you know, God is with us, Gott mit uns, which, you know, the Germans had inscribed on their belt buckles.
And, you know, the British used to say to themselves, you know, God's on our side, God is an Englishman.
Nobody has really escaped that particular idea.
It is part of a national mentality.
Yes, but he wouldn't necessarily regard them as fellow men.
This was the trouble.
He was the czar, they weren't.
But also, Nicholas II particularly, believed in not showing emotion.
He felt that that was the worst thing he could do.
And this is the trouble whereby not necessarily stupidity, but I mean, he wasn't a totally stupid man.
But at the same time, he refused.
He had no imagination or he blocked off his imagination.
He was different to his wife in a certain way.
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