Nah, it wasn't the treaty of Gothenburg that did it for me, but starting the Northern War in the first place.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.
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.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.
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?
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.