Nicholas was a weak and ineffective ruler, but soviet historiography did also portray him that way. Also the bolsheviks did initially deny killing the entire Romanov family, only announcing the death of Nicholas. The only claim that isn’t subjective I see is that the Romanov murders were an “atrocity”. Perhaps it should be changed to controversial military actions. Also I guess “at all costs” lets us know the writers opinion
But all in all I don’t think this is terribly misleading.
Our boy Nick was easily top 3 dumbest and most incompetent rulers of all time.
Don’t even have to set the bar that high. If you lead your country into a disastrous, losing war that helps catalyze a domestic revolution, that’s the definition of “ineffective.” If you get ran out of power by your largely pre-industrial populace, that’s the definition of “weak.”
Extremely cool and good as he did nothing wrong
Sounds about right.
Fuck wikipedia, all my homies hate wikipedia
A prominent wikipedia contributor was recently revealed to be a ICE agent. It 100% sucks and should only be use for a cursory glance and maybe looked at as a resource launching off point
This will be fun for you then: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:MobileDiff/967480645
revealed to be a ICE agent
do you have a link by chance? searched and didn’t find anything
On Thursday I was looking at the Gulf of Tonkin incident article, which if you don’t know went like this:
August 2: US ships open fire on Vietnamese ships, US reports the US ships were attacked
August 4: Nothing happens, US reports that US ships were attacked, the US goes to war with Vietnam.
This was leaked by a former NSA staffer in the early 2000s. In response the NSA eventually released a heavily redacted and manipulated report a few years later (the US ships really were attacked on August 2, but after the US fired ‘warning shots’). After an apparently long wikipedia edit war, the government propaganda can be cited, hurray, but not the original report, of course. Reading through the talk page was full of ‘war history experts’ (cough nazis cough cough) calling people conspiracy theorists and saying “the men who served on the Maddox knew they were attacked”.
