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https://archive.ph/Zh6iX

What's up with calling all (or at least quite many) cabinet members "tsar"? Or was it always customary in the past also, and I was only living under a rock? Or is it just insinuating at Russian influence?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czar_%28political_term%29

its recent for the UK (and I find it weird) but it's quite old in the USA

Thanks for the archive link.

And to your question, It was _never_ customary. It's weird, it's not okay, it's brainwashing, plain and simple. I'm a US citizen, our history is rooted in defeating monarchies and kings. I feel as though this is a rewiring of people's brain by mass media. There are _no_ tsar/czar/tzar/csar in a democracy, period. Full stop.

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