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The people that wanted to get him out of the way.
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They finally, after sort of beating the hell out of him
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and pumping one bullet after another into all parts of his body,
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they threw him into a lake
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weighted down with rocks.
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When they brought the body up and did an autopsy,
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they found out that he died of drowning.
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Anyway, his influence over the czar in a way
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helped accentuate this sort of fatalism
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that was almost predetermined, you could say,
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by his religious orthodoxy.
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But if you're going to be the autocratic czar,