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What made the Russian Navy suspect Japanese torpedo boats were in North Sea in 1904?
Although my information is still very incomplete, I’m tracking a report from a Norwegian merchant vessel, the Bark Adela (Johan Dahl, Skipper), which reported seeing a “warship,” and specifically a “...
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What usually happens to a country's leadership when a dictator dies?
Dictatorships start in different ways, they develop in different ways, and they end in different ways. Trying to generalize can be misleading, but there are some observations:
In theory, the leaders ...
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What usually happens to a country's leadership when a dictator dies?
That's an impossible question to answer. Every country, every period and every dictator is different. Even in the Soviet Union succession was not something written in a constitution. Or, if it was, ...
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