711. The Terror: Killing God (Part 5)
The episode explores the Festival of the Supreme Being, a grand public spectacle orchestrated by Maximilien Robespierre in June 1794, revealing his deep ideological commitment to moral absolutism and divine oversight as essential to the French Revolution’s survival. Though the festival wa
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