Monarchs have been killing each other and their rivals to the throne, often including women and children and family members, for literally thousands of years, but no-one cares when they do it.
But noooooo, when a COMMUNIST does it, it’s suddenly the worst thing ever?
Countless worker and peasant children died in brutal conditions prior to the revolution, and to care less about them than a few spoiled Russian princelings is myopic. That’s what I’d say to a liberal.
But we’re communists here. Or at least we say we are. We should strive to learn from and overcome the atrocities of the past, not repeat them. Certainly not revel in glorifying them.
Communism would be recognizing the material conditions that lead to revolution and understanding that any situation that results in a storming of the palace will necessarily produce the violence which kills the royal family (or whoever sits atop the political hierarchy). Morality is not a factor in understanding the unfolding of history
Morality is not a factor in understanding the unfolding of history
Insert the Marx quote about changing the world rather than simply interpreting it here.
Insert the Paulo Freire quote about how without liberatory education the oppressed dream of becoming oppressors beneath it.
Look, the Romanov kids are a century dead and no amount of monday-morning quarterbacking will change what happened. And if it had to happen for the political or military survival of the revolution, then so be it. But I’d like to think that people nominally comitted to creating a better world would engage with what happened and try to think of how things could be done better next time, instead of just gleefully celebrating kids’ deaths or saying, “well that’s history for you.”
Killing? The far worst part is the generations of pedophilia and incest.
Shit like the Habsburgs should be the only proof of how primitive and disgusting these supposed “enlightened” individuals actually were.
The gene pool eventually became so small that the last of the Spanish line, Charles II, who was severely disabled from birth, perhaps by genetic disorders, possessed a genome comparable to that of a child born to a brother and sister, as did his father, probably because of “remote inbreeding”.
Few things make me more angry then thinking about how there was a time humanity looked up to and endorsed(regardless of choice) these monsters. Talk about primitive stupid monkeys. Ugh.
Worse it was probably an improvement.
A fully inbred king could be controlled by his court pretty well. Probably allowed them to check some of their worse impulses by giveing them a sugar sculpture to eat
Sure until they collectively decide the 52yo bed ridden King suffering from multiple genetic diseases should fuck his 10yo sister because they are all anxious there is no heir yet…
I feel that when it comes to running a country a committee made by degenerates and mostly old incompetent men are about as useful as some random old guy that can’t count to 10.
The kids didn’t do anything to deserve any punishment, but I can place the blame solely on their parents. They used the kids as a sort of human shield for feudalism, as all royals did.
“We’re transporting you, it isn’t safe here.”
proceeds to transport them to a small room where you slaughter them like the monsters they are
:troll:
Imagine being the revolutionaries who discovered this.
“Wow that took like twice as many bullets as it should have why was that - oh what the fuck - diamonds? FUCKING DIAMONDS? My family has been starving for months so they could literally wear robes made out of diamonds? Pytor, grab more bullets! im not done yet.”
I love how alexei looks like he’s already dead
Neo feudal? Im pretty sure it was just feudal
