When this Blogger was a young lad, once a month or so, he accompanied his Father, a Trotskyite, to do a welfare check on two ancient Russian émigré Trotskyites. They had lived under the     Czar, Lenin and Stalin; before they fled Russia.   One day, they started chatting about Tsar Nicholas II; how unlucky he was. How his very presence caused bad things. They discussed the Khodynka Field Stampede; which occurred in 1896, during the Tsar’s coronation celebration.   Thousands upon thousands of Russians had gathered on a field, outside of Moscow, to receive gift packages from the Tsar. However, there were not enough packages, and a stampede occurred. Over 1,380 Russians were crushed to death.   The ancient lady informed this Blogger that no tragedy like that had ever occurred in Russia before; and she noted that Nicholas was called     NICHOLAS THE BLOODY from that day forward. She also remarked that the event was a bad omen for what was coming. Lost wars, Revolutions, Civil Wars, Famine,

The Roman Republic fell when its Ruling Elite could no longer make a rational case for its continued governance over the people of Rome, the “Populus Romanus”. The Champion of the Roman Ruling Elite ,in its decline, was Sulla; however, Sulla gave over his governance, to gay actors.   Plutarch wrote the following about Sulla.   "It was this laxity, as it seems, which produced in him [Sulla] a diseased propensity to amorous indulgence and an unrestrained voluptuousness, from which he did not refrain even in his old age, but continued his youthful love for Metrobius, an actor."   "However, even though he [Sulla] had such a wife at home, he consorted with actresses, harpists, and theatrical people, drinking with them on couches all day long. For these were the men who had most influence with him now: Roscius the comedian, Sorex the archmime, and Metrobius the impersonator of women, for whom, though past his prime, he continued up to the last to be passionately fond, and made