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[Threat Doc]

Holy smokes, that's a perspective that I never thought of, Prosperity... nicely done.

[Okie135]

That and scifi writers love to steal borrow from historical situations.

Fred Saberhagen once based much of a book off of the Battle of Midway. He even took the names of some of the captains and admirals, and flipped the order of the letters.

Issac Asimov's Foundation series is based off of Edward Gibbon's The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.

To quote another well known scrit, "What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun."

[Odinvolk]

Aleksandr Kerensky was the head of the last Russian government before the communists turned Russia into the Soviet Union (USSR). He had a short rain, after the last king of Russia abdicated and before the Bolshevik revolution. He then went into exile, as suggested by OP and died in 1970s in USA. He could be seen as the last vestige of old noble Russian culture. He also was the nemesis of the infamous religious nutbag and charlatan Rasputin. He is not well known or loved in modern Russia as modern Russia is country that Lenin and Stalin build. They certainly had no love for the man! Which is why he was deliberately looked down upon by the communists, and adored by the "White Russians" - the faction that went into exile when "Red Russians" won the civil war. Whew.. sorry... I like history.