Tag: History
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Mohamed Morsi: Egypt’s President Who Couldn’t Govern All
A modern-day Julius Caesar plot was hatched in Egypt following the 2011 Arab Spring movement. In the center of the plot was the country’s first democratically elected President Mohamed Morsi. Morsi was abandoned by most of his loyal people in the government, his own security force, and the executive branch of the government. Mohamed Morsi went on a trial in…
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Putin’s Russia and the Ghost of the Romanovs
Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and his family, the Romanovs, were murdered 100 years ago on July 17, 1917, by Marxist revolutionaries. What does this anniversary mean for Vladimir Putin? Revolution came to Russia in February 1917, a month later in March the king of the Russian Empire Tsar Nicholas II abdicated the throne. With the revolution in many…
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