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…
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
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