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Old 11th Jun 2018, 10:18
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Originally Posted by A_Van
ORAC,

You are perfectly right about "Uncle Joe".We are still 100+ years behind France and its revolution. But Harry was mentioning times after absolute monarchy ended in Britain. And at that time the tsar regime in Russia was rather soft and very tolerant to various religions.

As to the main topic, I am not sure the "European Army" will work well. NATO is operational only due to the US. Without "Uncle Sam" it will be a mess.
Van - I was looking at when revolutions happen - some are (relatively) bloodless - such as 1648 in the UK - no-one, other than Charles I, was executed because of their social position. France 1789 - 2000-3000 aristos went, Russia 1917-18 - quite a lot of people, Spain 1940 - several thousand, probably more, China 1948 - perhaps a million or two......................., Indonesia 1965 up to a million killed
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