Stalin died in March. And Caesar.

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John Sweeney, British investigative journalist and writer reports from Kyiv.

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[Midnight Writer]

1. "Beware the Ides of March"

[Liberal In Texas]

2. Which is in 3 days. n/t

[SheltieLover]

3. Let's hope!

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[dalton99a]

4. .

[hlthe2b]

5. All hail the "ides of March"... may something positive for world peace come from it.

[muriel_volestrangler]

6. Not sure there's a meaningful comparison of the deaths of Stalin and Julius Caesar

Stalin died of natural causes; Caesar from a conspiracy (though he wasn't particularly egregious among powerful Romans at the time; there had been declared or undeclared civil war for almost a century before that, and was for another decade or so after; none of them at his time was particularly honourable). Then there were emperors, many objectively more evil than Julius Caesar, for centuries. Should we count up the months they died in? And dictators in other countries and ages?

[Bev54]

7. Got his the other day from a friend in the UK

Nicholas 1 died on March 2nd
Stalin died on March 5th
Alexander ll was murdered on March 13h
Ivan the Terrible died on March 28th
Paul l was killed on March 24th

All in all March is a bad month for Russian Leaders.

Fingers crossed for the tradition to continue.