It’s easy to romanticize any aspect of history. Our distance and our imagination can cause us to romanticize horrific events and regimes, sometimes providing…
You gotta admit he's a pretty fascinating guy. Big weird mystic who dies under outlandish and bizarre circumstances? If you want to explain the revolution in a sensationalist way that purposely cuts out class why not go with the giant beard wizard?
Plus they have to make it look like it was one guy pulling the strings or they'd have to acknowledge that the population in general wanted a revolution
she's a literal monarchy stan, it's incomprehensible to her that the people would revolt against their beloved Nicholas II because of things he actually did.
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Yeah what the fuck even is that?
You gotta admit he's a pretty fascinating guy. Big weird mystic who dies under outlandish and bizarre circumstances? If you want to explain the revolution in a sensationalist way that purposely cuts out class why not go with the giant beard wizard?
Plus his best friend was a talking bat!
And he has a bopping villain song!
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AND he was packing schmeat
They always look to one person as the 'bad guy'
Plus they have to make it look like it was one guy pulling the strings or they'd have to acknowledge that the population in general wanted a revolution
she's a literal monarchy stan, it's incomprehensible to her that the people would revolt against their beloved Nicholas II because of things he actually did.
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It's because of the kid's movie about Anastasia Romanov where he uses literal magic to cause the revolution.