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are what make Russian statecraft interesting. When they're smart, and have smart ministers, they're brilliant. When they're not smart, like Nicholas II, they're a pathetic disaster. But when they're smart, thing is, the peculiarly Russian-imperial czar/thing works really well--better than such systems work in countries that aren't empires. In any game, the smarter man wins.
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But fraudulence was, so to speak, in the air, when Father Sigmund was smoking himself into terminal throat and tongue cancer: Mme. Blavatsky and Aleister Crowley were amusing, basically harmless frauds; Rudolf Steiner was a meaner, viler, harm-doing and harm-intending, criminal sort of fraud--like Freud, but infinitesimally smaller potatoes.