[ Has Marxism already succeeded there? It's a strange thing to think about, and if it's some other world's iteration of Russia, who is to say that the workers and peasants haven't already succeeded? Or that they were forced to live under a despotic regime to begin with? Yakov's not foolish enough to let a faint trickle of hope overwhelm his common sense, however; he's fully able to recognize that this woman was probably brought up under the power of some other tsar, so he doesn't ask outright. It'll be self-evident before too long whether or not that aspect of her reality is also a mirror image of his own. ]
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[ Has Marxism already succeeded there? It's a strange thing to think about, and if it's some other world's iteration of Russia, who is to say that the workers and peasants haven't already succeeded? Or that they were forced to live under a despotic regime to begin with? Yakov's not foolish enough to let a faint trickle of hope overwhelm his common sense, however; he's fully able to recognize that this woman was probably brought up under the power of some other tsar, so he doesn't ask outright. It'll be self-evident before too long whether or not that aspect of her reality is also a mirror image of his own. ]