I didn't say what he did was anything good or progressive, rather than he did something. Can't say the same for Spineless Nick. We're talking about a guy who asked not to interrupt his tea time, when a servant reported to him about mass public unrest
Agree, that was also Lenin's opinion, he noted few times that while tsar was unrivalled in entire contemporary Europe for bloodshed and tyranny, everything he did was to make people hate him even more, and real counterrevolutionary work was always done by the Stolypin, Pobedonostsev, Durnovo etc.
I didn't say what he did was anything good or progressive, rather than he did something. Can't say the same for Spineless Nick. We're talking about a guy who asked not to interrupt his tea time, when a servant reported to him about mass public unrest
Agree, that was also Lenin's opinion, he noted few times that while tsar was unrivalled in entire contemporary Europe for bloodshed and tyranny, everything he did was to make people hate him even more, and real counterrevolutionary work was always done by the Stolypin, Pobedonostsev, Durnovo etc.