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Also what nobody talks about when handwringing over the fate of the Romanovs is that had they been successfully "liberated" by the White Army it would have led to the deaths of millions. With women and children probably outnumbering the men because that's just how wars and especially civil wars tend to go. Yeah getting shot and bayonetted to death is pretty ugly but you go look at a picture of the skin-and-bones Yemeni infants in incubators and tell me that's a good way to go. Because that would have happened to a lot of kids.
Nicholas deserved it though. He deserved it twice.
That one Mark Twain quote about the Reign of Terror .txt
100%. Just because they aren't named by history like the bigwigs they beheaded doesn't mean they weren't real, thinking, feeling, human beings like you or I. Our sympathies should be always be pointed to the powerless. What the Ancien Regime did to France is horrible. And they also balled the French into a fist and used its people to punch outward. The majority of the First Crusade was French. Louis of "Saint Louis the Crusader" fame invaded Egypt on a botched Crusade himself. France was the dominant military power in Europe for centuries. Everyone assumes it was the Germans that were because of the Junkers and the world wars but France was dominant for a lot of the last thousand years. The only authentically cool thing the French monarchy ever did was that time Louis "The Sun King" had "Ultima Ratio Regum" inscribed on his cannons. "The Last Argument of Kings."
That's some heavy metal shit right there. :cat-vibing:
While it was a shit decision (about the kids, the adults made their choice, plenty of aristos sided with the Bolsheviks, Chicherin for instance), with the Czech Legion on the advance they had some hard choices to make. It's only mildly less awful to imagine Anastasia as a puppet to someone like Ungar-Sternberg.
It tells the true color of the libs when they have infinitely more sympathy for the likes of the romanovs and marie antoinette than the starving masses they call “mobs”
My gawd I tried searching for this emoji for ages before, never would've guessed it was under "owned"
I remember a struggle session here last year where some lib was extremely upset everyone was celebrating the Romanovs execution. Great slop.
Amazing cope that wikipedia lists it as an "assassination" rather than an execution lmao.
Anyways every single person who handwrings about an over 100 year old execution will without fail turn around and say some shit about how Americas crimes doesnt matter because of it being several decades since the iraq war or shit like that.
Sweden was still fucking forcing trans people to be sterilized in exchange for legal recognition barely 10 years ago but now we don't so its all good and mustn't be mentioned, but we all have to hear about these dead pieces of shit multiple times every year 100+ years since it happened?
The romanovs are literal saints, you canonized these fuckers what more do you want, we all have to give a yearly weeping in their memory? At least its a sign that these shitheads are still scared of communism and they know they cannot exorcise it forever.
The best of all imaginable outcomes would have been a Puyi scenario where the former despot was reformed and integrated into society. Shooting the tsar without having a fair trial first was not ideal either. The minors of the Romanovs were too young to be responsible the way the adults were.
But it was one hastily decided execution made under chaotic circumstances more than a century ago. I'm not going to lose any more sleep about it than liberals do over those millions of innocents who were killed in the same period by the capitalist system that the Romanovs represented.
