I can only say, if they are not, Democracy will prove as great a failure as Czardom.
Truly, it was not so much the force of arms as that of ignorance which kept up the Czardom for hundreds of years.
Czardom, on its part, may play out its last card by embarking upon a fresh war.
The power of Czardom was enforced ignorance, and this made possible the infamous treaty of Brest-Litovsk.
They left their home in the richest district of that new Balkan czardom about a year ago.