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TIL about Ryleyev Kondraty Fodorovich a poet who was sentenced to be hung for this role in the Decembrist Uprising. The rope broke which usually led to a pardon, seen as divine intervention but he said, "In Russia not know how to do anything properly, not even how to make a rope." He was hung again

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