I completely agree - it is maliciously exploited by modern liberal propaganda. To paraphrase Mark Twain, the Terror was nothing when compared to the long Terror of feudalism that came before.
I am just coming from a place of historical pedantry. The guillotines really were used to kill a lot of revolutionaries over sometimes minor political differences. And the Terror was mismanaged/misdirected/overdone in many places which even the Committee of Public Safety recognized at the time. None of that discredits the Revolution as a whole or even its use of violent repression in particular.
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I completely agree - it is maliciously exploited by modern liberal propaganda. To paraphrase Mark Twain, the Terror was nothing when compared to the long Terror of feudalism that came before.
I am just coming from a place of historical pedantry. The guillotines really were used to kill a lot of revolutionaries over sometimes minor political differences. And the Terror was mismanaged/misdirected/overdone in many places which even the Committee of Public Safety recognized at the time. None of that discredits the Revolution as a whole or even its use of violent repression in particular.