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.
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.
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.
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:
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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.
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Not to mention pogroms and such continuing.