MFer really about to both sides the Russian revolution lol
He's stopping at Russia because China is more than his liberal heart can handle
lol what where?
If it was an older ep he might have come around since, I remember in the Haiti episode he sounded pretty :jokerfied: by the end
Latest episode is about the execution of the Romanovs, he goes all lib at the end and uses it to make a point about how “oooooh they killed the tsar for being a murderous tyrant but now they’re becoming the same themselves”. The next episode is about the red terror apparently.
The point about the leadership themselves feeling the need to cover up their involvement and the deaths of the family members is fair enough, but honestly who care about some dead royals
ackshully sweaty stopping the regime fueled by pogroms is kinda uncivil. maybe vote???
i mean he pointed out that even lenin saw it as something to hide given that he maintained that the children and servants were still alive. did the staff, the cook, maid really deserve to be killed? the children also didnt choose to be born romanovs. Duncan said he wasnt going to cry over the killing of a leader who terrorized countless people but it makes the case it wasnt necessary, or at the least the killing of the children amd remaining wait staff wasnt necessary
I mean, he started the current series by calling Stalin an antisemite, so...
It seemed like he was on a great path until the last ten episodes or so
Honestly! In the beginning it seemed pretty reasonable but since the Bolsheviks have taken power and started doing their thing, it's gotten decidedly more focused on how bloodthirsty and ruthless the revolutionaries are. In a way, the exemplification of a left historian who hasn't quite made the jump yet
Ever idolizing the failed revolutions, ever critical of the successes
New ep just dropped, it's about the red terror, I feel like this trajectory continues
ehhh the dude couches his takes with historical facts and appropriate context. if you can point anything he's said that is factually incorrect i would be interested to hear it
