I want to welcome everyone back to part 51 of our reading of 200 years together by Alexander Solzhenyson.

I'm going to ask you this, Dr. Johnson.

I already know the answer.

How are you doing today?

Well, I'm under the weather.

I'm definitely sick.

I rarely get sick.

So when it happens, I have no idea what to do.

But I wasn't going to...

I was thinking of canceling.

I said, nah, I don't do stuff like that.

So I have no...

It's just your typical virus, I guess.'t I don't know and um but I'm getting

stuff done and um we have to we have to get through this we're at 51 now we have to get through

this we can't be taken any time off no no let's uh let's start right now because we're going to

get into a little uh talking a little bit about czarism here.

So picking up where we left off at the end of episode 50.

Moreover, Russian society would have ceased to be itself if it had not brought everything to a single burning question.

Zarism.

Still czarism.

Always czarism. Still czarism. Always czarism.

But the consequence was this.

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