That Time Japan Absolutely Rinsed Russia, Part Two: The Togo Turn

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🗓️ 13 February 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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As Japan corners Russian forces in Port Arthur, the Tsar sends a new fleet of ships on a 7-month journey to break the barricade. In a stunning battle that alters the course of history, Japanese Admiral Tōgō Heihachirō executes a brilliant series of manuevers that remain some of the most thoroughly-studied maritime tactics in the entirety of naval history. In the second part of this week's two-part series, Ben, Noel and Max explore how Japan absolutely waxed the great Russian Empire in a conflict that, despite its short lifespan, fundamentally altered the course of the world overall.

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0:00.0	Ridiculous History is a production of IHeart Radio. Welcome back to the show, fellow ridiculous historians.
0:29.6	Let's hear it for the czar, Ridiculous History Podcasting super producer, Mr. Max Williams.
0:36.6	Hazar.
0:37.4	Hazar. That's Noel Brown. That Williams. Hazar. Hazar.
0:39.3	That's Noel Brown.
0:40.8	That's me.
0:41.8	Ben, you're Ben Boland.
0:43.3	Where did the term, when they talk about a something czar, right?
0:47.2	Yeah.
0:47.5	Like a border czar or a drugs czar or whatever.
0:52.1	Where does that, is that the same word or is it a different word entirely uh
0:56.8	it's spelled c z a r when we're talking about uh the u s version uh when we're talking about the russian
1:04.1	version or russian royalty it's cz t s a r yeah yeah and but they are the same in spirit
1:10.7	it's the idea of being like overseeing something it's just i just wonder what the history of P-S-A-R, yeah. But they are the same in spirit.
1:13.4	It's the idea of being, like, overseeing something.
1:19.5	It's just, I just wonder what the history of that term being used for political posts came from.
1:19.8	And also, it seems like kind of like a symbolic position in many ways.
1:23.7	Like, the idea of being a border czar and getting blamed for problems with the border almost seems like a little bit cruel.
1:30.1	Like, is it really, like, what is that person even responsible for?
1:33.2	Yeah, it's usually, yeah, taking ownership and therefore responsibility over a specific kind of policy or policy area.
1:42.4	Etymologically, and yes, Max, you know this too. Max hit us up on the chat. Etymologically, and yes, Max, you know this too.
1:45.2	Max hit us up on the chat.
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