History
The term "Russian Roulette" originated in an eponymous 1937 short story by George Surdezof:
- ‘Did you ever hear of Russian Roulette?’ With the Russian army in Romania, around 1917, some officer would suddenly pull out his revolver, put a single cartridge in the cylinder, spin the cylinder, put it to his head and pull the trigger.
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