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Sure, but is it worth it to leave a threat of a counter revolution aiming to restore a monarchy, just to spare a few lives?
My weakness is trying to suggest some leniency for young children, but I’ve seen this movie before.
Thats a good weakness to have comrade. I get the pragmatic arguments behind why killing the Romanov kids was necessary, but it still just fucks me up because they were just kids. (Also, Puyi kinda fucks up the whole pragmatic necessity argument right?)
puyi's situation was different because mao wasn't fighting against monarchists, he was fighting against republicans. plus his association with the japanese regime made him so vile that no one would've wanted to put him back on the throne anyways. and, on top of that, he wasn't returned to china from the USSR until after the communists had already won the revolution. puyi's case is an interesting one for sure but i don't really think that it is universal
Yeah, I get all that. I prefer to believe that there was a way around killing the Romanov kids but I get that revolutions are messy.
I feel like the worst part of that is not because of the kids but because of their relative’s countries and armies.
Afaik the Bolsheviks didn't consider it necessary, no one has ever managed to find some kind of command from higher ups given to kill the Romanov children or even to execute the Romanovs on the spot.
It was a decision voted by Yekaterinburg Soviet, when the Whites had come close to the city.
+1 to decentralization.