[Chad C. Mulligan]

This is one reason people who say dictators who start wars to stay in power are wrong. War is an all-consuming exercise, uses up tons of resources that have to be taken from the civilian economy, That stokes discontent.

Not in Russia. Russians are religiously conditioned to sacrifice their very lives to advance the policies of their Tsars. They even have a famous opera about it.

https://www.mariinsky.ru/en/playbill/repertoire/opera/susanin1/

[dfwgator]

Russians have a ‘cursed capacity for suffering’.

[Zhang Fei]

[Not in Russia. Russians are religiously conditioned to sacrifice their very lives to advance the policies of their Tsars. They even have a famous opera about it.

https://www.mariinsky.ru/en/playbill/repertoire/opera/susanin1/]

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Imperial cults are organized and funded by ruling houses in hopes of legitimizing and prolonging their rule. Roman rulers were semi-divine, as were the ruling houses of Alexander and China’s First Emperor, at least in the way they depicted themselves to the hoi polloi. Their falls from power were no less spectacular or bloody. Effusive expressions of loyalty under duress or via material inducements are different from what people do when unbound.

[rxh4n1]

“Not in Russia. Russians are religiously conditioned to sacrifice their very lives to advance the policies of their Tsars. They even have a famous opera about it.”

Explain the 1905 & 1917 revolutions.