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[FONT=&quot]The following is a transcript from [/FONT][FONT=&quot]"Late Night Starring Jack Kennedy!"[/FONT][FONT=&quot], episode 2,054,”Three Week War 20th Anniversary Remembrances; Dowager Czarina Elizaveta/Elizabeth” aired on August 21st, 1987, on ABC[/FONT]

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[FONT=&quot]JACK KENNEDY: Welcome back! Before I bring out my next guest, I want to play a special segment, directed and produced by preeminent documentarian Kayla Smith…

[/FONT] [FONT=&quot][Somber music plays, followed by flashes of both Allied and Imperial Russian soldiers hunkered down in foxholes in Sendai, then clip of saturated napalm bombing of Akita and the Imperial Russian soldiers stationed there...]
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[FONT=&quot]VOICE OF KAYLA SMITH: For those who will always remember those harrowing days in 1967, and those young men and women out there who don’t, today, August 21st, marks the 20th anniversary of the Three Week War between the United States and allies and the Russian Empire, led by Czar Paul II. Coming after more than two decades of rising tensions between the former allies after the end of the Pacific Theatre of the Second Great War, over on how best to administer the their respective portions of the Republic of Japan, it was initiated by the Czar’s desire to “settle the Nipponese Question once and for all”…[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]JACK KENNEDY: Wow. Simply spectaculah. As promised, it’s time to bring out my next guest. For the first time in decades on English-speaking television anywhere in world, comes the Empress Mother of the current Emperor and Autocrat of the All the Russias, Co-Head of State of the Confederacy of Independent States, one of the brave souls who engineered and carried out the August Palace Peace Movement and the subsequent Nagasaki Accords which ended the Three Week War, let’s give a warm Kennedy clan welcome to Her Majesty, Czarina Elizabeth of Russia!

[/FONT] [FONT=&quot][Applause and cheering can be heard as Her Majesty enters the set, waving regally to the crowd, before going over to where Jack Kennedy awaits. After exchanging a few pleasantries between each other, Kennedy guides her to the guest chair. When she appears settled after sipping on some water, Kennedy springs into action][/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]KENNEDY: Your Majesty, thank you so much for being here tonight. What an honor! Especially on this, the anniversary of the war between our two great nations.[/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]CZARINA ELIZABETH: Thank you for having me, Mr. Kennedy.[/FONT]

[FONT=&quot][Kennedy chuckles at bit at being called “Mr. Kennedy”][/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]KENNEDY: Please, Your Majesty, call me “Jack”! Everyone else does, save my ex-wife! [Almost nervous laughter comes from the audience] Anyway, Your Majesty, I heah you turned down several offers from other networks here and around the world even in your home country, to do this first interview here on my show. Why is that?[/FONT]
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[Czarina Elizabeth smiles wanly upon being asked][/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]CZARINA ELIZABETH: Of course, Jack. Why this show, even against the BBC? Well, if you insist…it was done as a favor to your older brother, the always charming former President. When we worked together to make the Nagasaki Accords a reality, ending the foolish war my husband started, your visionary brother was always willing to do whatever it took to ensure all nations involved with the Nipponese, er, Japanese Question came to an equitable, magnanimous solution. Since he carried out his end of the bargain, and one that allowed us in the August Palace Peace Movement to solidify the gains we made after placing my son on the throne, why not return the favor? [/FONT]

[FONT=&quot][Kennedy smiles back, flashing her and the audience brightly][/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]KENNEDY: Wow. Simply spectaculah. I’ll tell him you said that when I go to visit him in California. But I have to ask since you’re here, what can you tell us about your deceased husband audiences here may not know, even in popular history books on the subject?[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]CZARINA ELIZABETH: Ah. As you say, the million dollar question. Or as I’ve come to say in my long, long stay in my adopted homeland, the million ruble question! To answer it, I feel one must understand that my husband, the former czar, was very troubled. [/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]KENNEDY: Troubled in what way, Your Majesty? [/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]CZARINA ELIZABETH: He was troubled in the fact he felt he couldn’t live up to his father’s legacy. After all, Jack, his father, the former baron turned tsar, went from a lone general on the fringes of Russian society as the old empire was collapsing into utter anarchy and civil war so horrendous, to winning battles against both Red and backsliding, treacherous White forces; rescuing the future Czarina Anastasia, last of the Romanovs, in dramatic fashion against the former, then marrying her; to singlehandedly capturing the throne for himself after years of war in a march that not even Alexander the Great or Napoleon could match. Adding to his considerable legend, Tsar Roman’s leadership helped guide Russia and the new empire through the turbulence of the Depression and Second Great War against the Third Reich, personally leading the White Army to drive the Reichsheer out of Russia, liberating massive swathes of conquered territories and creating the largest land empire the world has ever seen…even to this day. [Kennedy agrees, nodding his head] And last, but certainly not least, he was able to convince my father and the Prime Minister at the time to agree to a marriage alliance for his first born son that shocked the world! My husband always felt he had to match that legacy and go beyond it, if at all possible! When Paul took the throne in 1950, instead of spending his time cementing his father’s promises to “bring freedom to the peoples of our New Empire”, he chose to [FONT=&quot]frivolously[/FONT] waste Russian blood and treasure on failed African interventions to help prop up the Commonwealth and French Union against insurrections of all sorts, squandered domestic goodwill, and listened to a coterie of bloodthirsty sycophant mad generals who stoked his imagined inadequacies and goaded him into antagonizing his father’s former western allies over any trifling issue in places like Japan. See how he was troubled now?

[/FONT] [FONT=&quot]KENNEDY: Yes, Your Majesty, I do and can see where living up to his father would cause considerable mental stress that leads to rash decision making, like starting a pointless war. How did you feel when he sent the Korean White Army Front southwards to drive on Tokio and in his own words, "expel all insidious and [FONT=&quot]corrosive [/FONT]western influence out of the Republic of Japan"?

[/FONT] [FONT=&quot]CZARINA ELIZABETH: Appalled, Jack, absolutely appalled. I never understood why my dear husband would do such a thing. Wasn’t controlling one fourth of the world’s population enough? Potentially a fifth of all industrial output worldwide once his father’s plans were enacted? But he was my husband and many in the government at the time supported it. When the first reports of causalities came in after LeMay’s hyperplane [FONT=&quot]counter-strikes[/FONT] in Nagano…that’s when I fully went from quietly accepting him and his personality for the sake of our sons and daughter, to doing whatever I could to ending this…his madness and those of the bloodstained generals, too. [/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]KENNEDY: Knowing that now, Your Majesty, it begs the question: were those first causality reports the impetus for creating the moment when you, your pacifistic-minded inner circle and sympathetic generals in Zukhov and Denikin came together to create the August Palace Peace Movement? [/FONT]

[FONT=&quot][Czarina Elizabeth appears pensive for a moment, then nods her head in the affirmative]

[/FONT] [FONT=&quot]CZARINA ELIZABETH: They were. Anyone could tell, even after America re-embraced some aspects of isolationism in the postwar era when President Taft was elected to succeed your ingenious "Slim” Roosevelt, it was obvious to all of us in the palace and government that the capacity for all-out war was there. Terrible war at that when one awakens a sleeping giant as my husband chose to do. No one will forget what American wonder-science did to Berlin and Dresden. Many of us felt if this war continued and continued to gain in intensity, you Americans would assuredly do the same to Petrograd, Tsaritsyn, or Moscow…I wouldn’t let that happen to my Roman or Nicholas or Lilybet. I couldn’t. So, with a heavy heart after gaining the support of many in the Duma[FONT=&quot] who were [FONT=&quot]aghast[/FONT] at Paul's move, along with[/FONT] General Denikin, who brought General Zukhov and forces loyal to him to our side, we decided to act, creating the Peace Movement. Of course, you know what happened next…[/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]KENNEDY: I do, I do. I remember being on the road with my brother and Vice President Pepper as we kept getting conflicting reports of what was happening in Petrograd after LeMay’s push stalled the White Army outside of Nagano. First we heard forces loyal to the new Czar, Roman II, had overthrown his “mad father” and made the boy Autocrat and Emperor….[/FONT]

[FONT=&quot][Czarina Elizabeth interrupts][/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]CZARINA ELIZABETH: I wish it were as simple as that. We had to contend with Okhrana agents loyal to Roman’s father, his bloodstained generals who went even beyond the pale in the countermeasures they suggested durin[FONT=&quot]g the fighting[/FONT] and their [FONT=&quot]guards and units[/FONT], [FONT=&quot][FONT=&quot]their support[FONT=&quot]ers in[/FONT][/FONT] the Duma[/FONT] and [/FONT][/FONT][FONT=&quot][FONT=&quot][FONT=&quot]those[FONT=&quot][FONT=&quot] multitudes [FONT=&quot]of[/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][FONT=&quot][FONT=&quot] common people who[FONT=&quot] were [/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][FONT=&quot][FONT=&quot][FONT=&quot][FONT=&quot][FONT=&quot][FONT=&quot][FONT=&quot][FONT=&quot]mystified or tricked into being pro-war by the former[/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT]. The battle that raged throughout the night and into the day was a nightmare right out of hell, a mess, and a lot of good men and women were killed, many I still see in my dreams every night since then….that poor boy, Vladimir, I believe, who was cut down when the clique’s forces struck against the protestors who came to our aid outside the palace…[Czarina Elizabeth’s eyes start to water] Oh! Forgive me! I get emotional thinking about all who died to ensure true, everlasting peace and harmony amongst the nations could be given a chance to blossom... [/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]KENNEDY: It’s quite alright, Your Majesty. You weren’t the only one shedding tears when the Peace Movement’s broadcasts started to come through to the world. I’ll admit I cried myself when your voice, in that wonderful accent of yours told the world a war we had been fighting for a couple of weeks was almost at an end. One I feared might’ve gone hot if cooler heads didn’t take action when they did. [/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]CZARINA ELIZABETH: I agree completely. Adding to that, I want your audience to know your brother’s being incredibly receptive to our overtures in the aftermath and agreeing to a mutual stand down of all forces fighting in Japan helped us out considerably. One might say it solidified what was to come. [/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]KENNEDY: And I’d love to hear more since my brother never included me in the talks that became the Nagasaki Accords! But before we continue and I am so sorry Your Majesty, but my partner, Mr. Carson here wants us to take a quick commercial break if that’s alright with you. When we come back, would you mind if we discuss not only the Nagasaki Accords but the circumstances that had you go from being just a princess of Great Britain to Czarina of Russia by way of a very strange marriage proposal brought to Czar Roman the First’s attention by your relative, Lord Mountbatten? [/FONT]

[FONT=&quot][Czarina Elizabeth nods and smiles][/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]KENNEDY: Thank you, Your Majesty. When we come back, we’ll continue our exclusive interview with Her Highness, Empress [FONT=&quot]Mother[/FONT] Elizabeth of Russia, and more on this 20th anniversary of the Three Week War! Don’t change that dial!


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