No, the czar did not want us in the schools.
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The czar was always sending us commands - you shall not do this and you shall not do that - till there was very little left that we might do, except pay tribute and die.
The czar always got his dues, no matter if it ruined a family.
The mentality of the Russian demands a lord, a czar, a president.
We were fortunate to have the Russians as our childhood enemies. We practiced hiding under our desks in case they had the temerity to drop a nuclear weapon.
Hence we did not foster competition in our school, on the contrary.
Bolshevism is the other end of Czarism.
In the Cold War, a lot of Soviet actions could be explained as extensions of Czarist imperial ambitions, but that didn't stop us from studying Marxism in theory and Communism in practice to better understand that adversary.
Without Jimmy Carter we might not have gotten Ronald Reagan, without Ronald Reagan there would probably still be a Soviet Union.
I am not yet ready to be Tsar. I know nothing of the business of ruling.
I had a minor in Russian history, and this was at the time when the big Cold War was going on.
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