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The Timeless Comedy of Baking Dwarves Into Pies | Peter The Great
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Russia Is Russia-ing
At 8:07 · chapter starts 7:18
Horatio makes the sharp observation that Peter the Great is the point at which Russia starts behaving like the country we recognise today — pushing into Eastern Europe, asserting dominance, invoking a grand historic mission. The chain runs directly from Peter to Stalin to Putin, all of whom invoke him. The conversation spirals into Russia's sheer physical scale: one country bordering Finland and North Korea, containing all of America and Australia with room left over. Charlie pipes up with a tentatively pro-Putin 'they've been a bit squashed' take, which Fin firmly dismantles. Horatio summarises Siberia: 'They've taken all the space that God didn't finish. It was just auto-generated.' [1] — Horatio Gould "They've taken all the space that God didn't finish. It was just like auto-generated." 08:07
Moscow's Muslim population is estimated at 2–3 million, making it the city with the largest Muslim population in Europe.
Russia is so vast it could fit America and Australia inside it with 2 million square miles to spare. Siberia is just copy-paste terrain — God got bored and auto-filled the gap.
