 FACT: Almost certainly done for comic effect, nevertheless the  sequence of events in this episode is wrong. At the beginning,  Baldrick is delighted to announce that "the Russian Revolution have  started", and that the Tsar is dead and the masses "have shot all  their nobs". At the end of the episode, General Melchett cancels the  concert party because the Americans have joined the war. In actual  fact, the Americans declared war on Germany in April 1917, and the  Bolshevik Revolution (to which Baldrick refers) was in October that  year, with the Tsar being murdered in August 1918. However, although  there was a proto