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[Tobolsk. It is a bleak winter even during Easter]
Colonel Koblinksy: Do you realize I am a military officer representative of a nonexistant government? Kerensky is gone; the Americans were able to smuggle him into exile. Lenin kissed up to Germany by giving away land and gold to get out of the war; now he has another war on his hands.
Tsar Nicholas II: I have not heard much of wars these days.
Colonel Koblinsky: The Bolsheviks are being threatened with civil war. They just commissioned the Red Army to defend their newly-seized power. Challenging them is the White Army. Mensheviks, Radicals, anarchists, Monarchists, they are all in the fight.
Tsar Nicholas II: Will you join up?
Colonel Koblinsky: My fighting days are over. Whatever side I join; I will kill Russians. Too haunting for me. I will just look after this spot of land. Do you have any money?
Tsar Nicholas II: Not much, why do you ask?
Colonel Koblinksy: Soldiers have been unpaid; the stead is in need of upgrades.
Tsar Nicholas II: The prisoners keep the guard? [chuckling] I should have nominated you as my Minister of Finance; you would have revolutionized the penal system!


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