If the Chinese could have handled it well, so could have the Russians.
There no bigger PR win than former royal family living new lives as productive members of the communist society.There’s a lot of instances in history where the Chinese handled transitions of power very badly, to be fair.
But yes, making the former emperor a street sweeper was absolutely genius.
Very different emperors though.
The idea wasn’t to execute them but have them put on trial. However the city where they were held was besieged by the white army and they weren’t about to let them walk free either.
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It’s wild that someone can be a tankie, at least for more than say a year or something until the novelty veneer goes away.
It’s the same mental gymnastics for magats. They both think what they want is good. And that people that don’t think like them must suffer to change their minds or die.
And it’s so religiously ingrained in them. That the system cannot fail them. The system can only be failed. No amount of reality proving them wrong or resisting them will convince many of them otherwise. They will just double down on cruelty, oppression, and justification.
This is a dumbass post. If they didn’t kill the family of the Tsar they would be used by counter revolutionaries.
yep, best not let the cancer fester. I guess that makes me a tankie
Can’t say if it makes you a tankie or not… but I can say that I wouldn’t be comfortable with you being within 200 feet of a middle school.
Edit: sorry, 100m. I just assumed you were from the USA because of how comfortable you are with the idea of school aged kids getting shot.
I’m pretty sure the bourgeoisie don’t send their kids to any school the prols can get within 100m of.
Who cares? What difference does it make if counter revolutionaries try to restore the old royal family or make a new one? The problem with monarchy is the system itself, not whoever happens to occupy the position of monarch. Human beings are more than a symbol, no matter how powerful that symbol may be. There is no possible justification for the murder of children.
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Yeah, clearly it was the right choice since you just have to look at Reza Pahlavi trying to bring back the Persian monarchy today
It be interesting to see if countries/people that won wars and brutally murdered everyone and caused complete demographic alteration has done better or worse long term.
I expect they have done better long term.
Meanwhile Stalin’s daughter fled to the US
Blood sucking imperials.
Wrote up a huge hypothetical of what I would do. Tough stuff. Made me think. Good post!
How is it a good post arguing that it was wrong to execute the kids of the Tsar? Do you not understand how monarchies work?
Made me think == good post.
Idk what you read into my comment?
The atom bombs were fine, though, right?
In a city besieged by the white army who are the people we are supposed to care about? Ah yeah the royal family of course lol
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