DBWI-Worst Prime Minister of the Russian Empire

Nah, Rasputin was right to sign the Treaty of Gothenberg. Russia really did need to make peace in '15 - five years of war does a lot of damage.

Korolyev, on the other hand, was quite the incompetent. I still can't believe he thought Khrushchev's Siberian corn plan had any merit, and that joke of a rocket program he started has been costing Russia ever since.
 

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Nah, Rasputin was right to sign the Treaty of Gothenberg. Russia really did need to make peace in '15 - five years of war does a lot of damage.
Nah, it wasn't the treaty of Gothenburg that did it for me, but starting the Northern War in the first place.
Korolyev, on the other hand, was quite the incompetent. I still can't believe he thought Khrushchev's Siberian corn plan had any merit, and that joke of a rocket program he started has been costing Russia ever since.
You mean the Space Program that's been paying dividends in Climatological and Geological research that have helped to make Russian Farmers more productive on average than any other Eurasian nation save Portugal and the Netherlands? Yeah, sure.
 
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You cant forget about about the PM in the thirties who was forced to resign after a scandal involving a goat. It nearly took down the government. I can never pronounce his name Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashashvili. No other Georgian has been elected to be the PM to this day.
 
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Gorbachev. A talented agriculture minister but the moment he got the top job he brought in reforms that nearly turned the country into a socialist hellhole. It's a good thing the Tsar appointed Yanayev as his replacement so soon - all signs indicate he was trying to entrench himself in the position.
 
Izer Demsky. Sure, he was very memorable in Spartacus, but if there's a reason to never let actors become prime ministers, there he is. Privatising everything, including the nuclear arsenal? Outsourcing it to the ROC, no less?

And who could forget his re-election campaign, which depicted his opponent as a potato-juggling bear on unicycle?
 
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Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili, Ioseb was a great War time PM very hardcore never ever give up so a lot of people see him as a great PM but after the war he let his Orthodox seminary backaround take over and fought a lot of progressive reform in the post-war years the Empire didn't move forward till Nikita Khrushchev got elected
 
Izer Demsky. Sure, he was very memorable in Spartacus, but if there's a reason to never let actors become prime ministers, there he is. Privatising everything, including the nuclear arsenal? Outsourcing it to the ROC, no less?

And who could forget his re-election campaign, which depicted his opponent as a potato-juggling bear on unicycle?

Ah yes, THAT was memorable. Though, IMO, Vladimir Žirinovskij takes the cake. Who could forget his attempts to regain Alaska from Canada and use it as a place to deport all Ukrainians? Or his claim that Romania is an artificial state stolen from Russia, Bulgaria, and Hungary by Italian Gypsies? [1] Seriously, the guy must've been high on drugs to be that stupid.

OOC: [1] Based on his actual OTL comments, though for the first one substitute Canada for the U.S.
 
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You mean the Space Program that's been paying dividends in Climatological and Geological research that have helped to make Russian Farmers more productive on average than any other Eurasian nation save Portugal and the Netherlands? Yeah, sure.

That's Gorshkov's doing - he turned around the space program in the '80s. Before that, Russia frittered away enormous sums on rockets that blew up on the launch pad and a pointless quest for the Moon. Sure, they got there, but who really cares about the Moon?

As for the Northern War, that came about because of Stolypin's alliance with the Prussians. Stolypin was assassinated about a week before the war began; it's not like Rasputin could just overturn the cornerstone of his predecessor's foreign policy and back out!
 
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