Ivan the Terrible — "I am the instrument of God's vengeance."

I am the instrument of God's vengeance.
Ivan the Terrible — Ivan the Terrible Early Modern · First Tsar of Russia

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A statement justifying his cruelty as divinely ordained.

Date: c. 1560s

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